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Hello:

I have a question. I own a Ariens 921036 Deluxe 28 Super (28") 342cc Two-Stage Snow Blower (2014 Model) LIMITED EDITION.

I would like to purchase drift cutters. But in 2014, I believe a Ariens technical rep told me 72406900 is the correct Drift Cutter. I cannot find the email.

However, every place I look at now mentions they will NOT fit. So, I may have transcribed the part number wrong. Essentially the unit is a Deluxe 28. But since they do everything by model and serial numbers, I now can’t find a match. I called Ariens this morning, but I assume the nice young lady I spoke to plugged in the number like I did.

Anyone have an email for Ariens technical?

Anyway to find what drift cutters will fit?

Thank you.
 
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Ariens drift cutters haven't changed in decades. I'd be shocked if those didn't fit. Some places list the pn as just 724069, without the last 2 zeros.
 
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These drift cutters (don't know the part #) fit my 69 and 74 10000 series machines, as well as my 2018 Deluxe 28 SHO.
Ariens has been consistent in their bolt spacing for decades as mentioned above.

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Whichever drift cutters you end up using, slather anti-seize on the bolt's threads. I confess to being surprised that @tabora's thumbscrews did not vibrate loose. Guess he has very tough thumbs.

Were I to use those, I'd look into plastic knobs with a threaded insert (and use several washers or a spacer tube if needed). These would make sliding the cutters up and down child's play.
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My Pro machines came with drift cutters. I've blown plenty of storms were they would be useful... But, actually just completely remove them from the machines. I find they're more of a nuisance than a help when in the up position. You can't get the bucket as close to things and they increase the overall length of the machine. It can make navigating tighter areas more difficult. I have used them, just rarely. I remove them because I have also found the large locking knobs / wing nuts to get sometimes hung up when riding against hard packed snow banks or going through concrete EOD.

Here's the full version of my profile pic. That's my 2015 machine. This is the first time it touched snow. Notice, I already took the drift cutters off before I started
scraping back that 6 week old snow bank.
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Regardless of what falls and accumulates, the street-side plow ridge can be monstrous. I clear mine up to the grass line (aka curb line where there are curbs), it takes an extra bit of time in the morning but creates a large void for when they cut back later in the day. I end up with a broad flat ‘ridge’ instead of a bank, this allows me to drive right over it easily without needing to first clear it. I mention this because the drift cutter carves a nice street-side wall of snow.
the Ariens ‘convertible’ drift cutters seem to bring the best of both ( having/not having ) them.
 
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NJ doesn’t get big storms that often but the the drift cutters are nice to have. I have the sliding Husky cutters as well I used stainless carriage bolts with nylon lock nuts and nylon washers as spacers on both sides of the cutter. It’s tightened just enough to keep them from moving too easy but enough tension so I can just slide them up and down as needed. I like them when I’m clearing out the plow berms along the curb. It makes a nice clean cut above the bucket edge when it gets piled up that high. Very few storms here with high drifts but when we did they are great to have handy.
 
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I guess it all depends where you are. In the UP of MI, I can't think of a season when they were not needed, and from Jan - March, likely use the blower 2 to 3 times a week (at times daily) so mine stay on, and I typically don't bother folding them down either. Seems like the more recent cutters mount at a flatter angle than my old 10k did - they don't seem to reach as high, (instead having more reach out front, so less snow goes over the bucket), and many years, the banks at EOD get higher that the blower and cutters combined.

YMMV . . .
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Our town has the payloader attachment and blows it into the back of a triaxle and hauls it away. ... but I have not seen them use it in many years .... I have never seen them blowing the street curb snow into people's property.
 
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In the cities, they truck pack. Rural highway, the chute bypass lets them drop the snow a couple of hundred feet back. Rural neiighborhood (like us), they cut back the banks as needed and blow into the yards (missing driveways, and rural lots are large and pretty deep, so there is space) and then knock the cuts down with a wing blade on a grader (the normal plow). The shot above looks like the side of a bigger street with unbuilt space along it, so trucking would be pointless work and expense.

These are typically used ever year, with the only variable being how often. Our average snowfall is typically 200 inches or so, with the peak at 395 or so in '79. (Interestingly, the year in the late 70's, iirc, that the east coast and Buffalo got slammed, they were airlifting blowers out of our area (Air Force used C5's, iirc) to help dig out, since it had missed us. Might be one of the same blowers in this shot, since some of these date back to the 40's and 50's, and have just been well maintained.
 
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