home snowmaking...
 

So The eclipse hasnt been driven since early last summer before the engine blew. And now that i have it running again, I cannot afford insurance. Usually theres always somthing to work on, but since it hasnt moved, it hasnt had the chance to break down.

I got bored the other day, so i decided to try and make a snow machine using 1/4" Brass fittings, some pipe, an air compressor, and my garden hose. Its a T-shaped internal mix gun, it has 2 nozzles and it cost me about 25 dollars in parts to make. I welded up a tripod stand out of angle-iron, and painted it white. Havent had much time to try it since its been so warm, but i tried it for an hour a few weeks ago, and made a light coating on the ground. I will try to get a hold of a digital camera one of these days so i can post them up. Hopefully it will get colder out so i can make some more snow in the yard...

you have severely too much time on your hands. lol But cool.

how does it make the snow though? just using the air compressor?

cold air and water along with breaking of the air causes it to become colder

Oh I see what’s going on. The back yard snow is just a test. You plan on moving to a larger scale, you'll do the same thing w/fire hydrants in every neighborhood and submerge the town under snow unless a ransom is met so you can fix your eclipse. :p

LMFAO, how about we build thousands of these and bury the hondas and neons so we dont have to look at them anymore.

Hahahaha...

Don't forget the poorly body kitted DSMs.

EXACTLY!

You must give me the plans for this unbelievable machine!!!

We could equip all the DSMStyle members with one of these machines and take over the world! We could be a cult and Allan can be our leader. Naaaah, maybe not :D He would make us do too much kinky stuff.

A guy making other guys do kinky stuff... maybe I am in the wrong place...

Jdr you obviously havent seen allens cat. or allens cat in bondage gear.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?! I dunno if I WANT to see that. I take it this is some age old joke... hopefully

Cat bondage gear!? not something petco would sell...Allan must have some sewing skillz we don't know about.

Either way I still want those plans for this snowmaker.

allens cat is about the size of 2 watermelons, Literally. the cat would make a Y2K turbo look like a 9b, and as allen would say "the cat sucks more too".

Hey, our cat is not that big! And yes, it's an old, old joke that's gone on for too long ;)

im not going to give out my design, but its not too far from the external mix design at www.snowathome.com.

Also, check out groups.yahoo.com/snowcentral. they have forums about home snow making.

Booo urns! Haha thats pretty sweet though. Im gonna have to try that, theres never enough snow around here.

If you use a presure washer instead of a hose, you get tons more snow. Wish i had one, maybe after christmas.

LOL, now thats just funny. Tell little kids its a snow gun and then spray 'em w/it. You could also get a job doing snow removal from you neighbors and every night just start making more snow in there driveway.

"I just don't get it, the weather man said we got a couple of inches but theres 3 feet of snow in everyones driveway!"

"I just don't get it, the weather man said we got a couple of inches but theres 3 feet of snow in everyones driveway!"

Dont we say that now anyways?? They said a couple days ago that we were supposed to get snowed on today. All the sudden... KABAM!! No snow!

How has the weather been up there, im curious of what im walking into when i get off the plane. its been 70s to 80s here, with rain here and there. but mostly sunny.
sorry about the OT

Its been very mild. No snow, and pretty warm (for december in minnesota). I would say we have been very spoiled so far...

Yikes that looks cold.