Morning all!!

My Name is Jules. I am living way up in Northern Canada and am new to this snow making stuff. Must admit, I never thought I would be doing something like this but it is slowly becoming an obsession. Over the course of the winter and next summer I will be designing and building a few snowmaking machines for my work and will be posting my progress as things get rolling.

Have already built a T-gun, am working on a bigger SM4 setup and will be designing a fan gun over the winter to build next summer. I am relatively new to snowmaking, but have quite a bit of experience in hydraulics and hydraulic physics and whatnot. so Yeah! thats about it for now. If anyone wants to chat, send me a message, I'm pretty much always near a computer these days...

Cheers - Jules

Hello Jules. You can call me Chris. Welcome to snowguns.com

(Oh just a heads up don't expect people to tell you exactly what to do, you will get yelled at if you do. So read things and it's ok to ask clarifying questions. But don't look for step by step instructions on how to do stuff. There is a ton of information on here so just look through it. Just trying to help you out )

Again welcome to Snowguns.com

Hey Chris, I've been reading a ton and realize no one is going to spoon feed anything. I'm really wanting to get this rolling. you will not be seeing any question about what nozzles to buy or anything like that. my one post there was just to place me in the right ball park. I really can get a grasp on what kind of system would be best. At this point, I'm starting to think that a big huge T-Gun might be an option... I just dont know...

****, in northern canada, you can probably open the back door and take a leak and it'll come down as snow. lol

Good to see new members! I think a huge teegun would be a huge waste, considering the sort of temperatures you guys can see.

What kind of compressor/water setup do you have currently, if any?

That's good . Just making sure haha. I'm pretty close to the Canadian border (Seattle). Haha Alex (Would that work if it was cold enough?)

Hey Anikode!

currently in the design phase of a commercial application. We need to make a setup that can put out in the 20gpm range using portable fire pumps like the one i put in me other post, and a gas powered air compressor in the 40cfm range. it is a little daunting i must say. I know know I need to find a cat pump of sorts to make this whole thing work... my boss wants it to run on gas (the whole thing) so I wonder if going electric and running a big generator might be the way to go here... too much to do, so little time. Oh, and this will be towed behind snowmobiles to streams and the snow will be made to create what are called ice bridges here... we'll be spanning streams upto a hundred feet wide so we need a big amount of snowmaking...

This sounds like the PERFECT job for an SMI 320. You need hard, durable snow, that's inexpensive to make, using an easily portable setup.

Used snowstream on a carriage from a resort = $1-2k. It doesn't need high pressure, so you'd be set with pumps. It doesn't need compressed air, so no need for a compressor. You'd just need a good sized generator to run it on, and you'd be set.

The temps up there would be MORE than cold enough to get 50+ gpm from a snowstream. Easily.

A very interesting option Anikode... I will have to run this by the Boss... And find a used one that will ship to canada... kinda takes the fun out of building though.

You could always buy a 320 blade and water ring, and convert it to run on a gasoline engine... As long as it spins 3500 rpm, it'll make snow

That puts the challenge back in it! And removes the need for a generator!

hmm... sounds like fun... diesel powered snowmaker from H*ll... I like it...