The Kioti snowblower doesn't come with skids; they're an option. A $125 option no less. Ouch! I really didn't want to spend that much on a pair of skids. So I did some research and came across ARMORskids. The owner (Bob) manufactures skids for just about every snow blower known to man; walk behind or mounted. Oddly enough, he'd never heard of Kioti (ok...not so odd) but his website has excellent information so I could spec the right skids for the KS50-160FM (former SB50) snowblower.
The mounts for the KS50 are drilled for 3/8" bolts and the spacing is 2-7/8" center-to-center. There are two sets that fit this requirement; ACS1545-C and ACS9545-B. The ACS1545-C are 4" high and 12" long, and the ACS9545-B are extra long and tall at 5" high and 16-1/2" long. Since I only need to raise the scrape bar 3/8" off the ground I went with the standard duty ACS1545's. The price with shipping was $41.74. That's a lot better then $125.
Gary - Times have changed. Your $41.74 skids are now $199.74 (including shipping) from the same site. And they now only come unpainted.
The output from this light bar is impressive. It creates daylight.
The photos just don't do it justice. I took two sets of three photos; the first photo in each set is just the headlights, the second photo is with the head lights and the light bar and the third photo is with just the light bar. There is so much reflection from the headlights hitting the snowblower shoot that there is way too much glare in the photos. It's almost best to compare the output of the headlights alone to just the light bar alone.
Headlights only
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Headlights and Light Bar
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Light Bar only
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Again, Headlights only
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Headlights and Light Bar
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Light Bar only
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