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Bought my first snowblower yesterday. Used it today.

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highland145 said:
A snow blower? What is this thing that you speak of? Snow blower.:hmm:
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Yeah really, for another 200-300 he could be throwing snow 40' and annihilating the end of the driveway where plows ruthless destroy your lower back.

DixyCrat said:
You are just creating your own destruction by adding to the global-climate-change that is caused by your laziness.
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lol if he didn't buy it someone else would have. It's not his fault manufacturers aren't more responsible with their creations.
 
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sdifox said:
just mulch it.
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With that many oak trees, mulching doesn't make sense, if he wants a yard. Evolution has led to oak trees choking out their competition by laying down a layer on the ground that prevents a lot of other things from growing. One or two trees wouldn't be bad, but a lot of trees would be a problem.


As far as snowblowers; Ha ha! 🙂 (I have a snow pusher/picker-upper - big bucket on a tractor can clear a driveway pretty damn quick.)
 
sdifox said:
I got my snowblower approval after my wife tried shovelling snow for ten minutes :biggrin:
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Closed on our house in middle of a 20" storm. Wife had us go down to Sears and get a blower. Last years clearance model works just as well and saved 200.
 
highland145 said:
A snow blower? What is this thing that you speak of? Snow blower.:hmm:
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Via said:
I didn't want to spend a grand, and to take advantage of my 0% financing with Sears I was pretty much stuck with Craftsman, so I got this one:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07188780000P?mv=rr

Talk about profit: It turned a 3-4+ hour job into a 20 minute one, with no back-breaking labor involved (it had no problem with 12" drifts; only chugged a bit when I was at the end of the drive where the snowplows had made their compacted ridges). The only annoying thing is having to bend over to turn the chute.

$500+ might seem like a lot for something you might not use that often, but if you live where it snows and you have any kind of driveway at all - you gotta get a snowblower. The last few years of shoveling have been hell. No more.
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I have a similar snow blower. The single stage is fine for most of the snow we get here in SE Michigan. It doesn't like wet, heavy snow much, though.

The 4-stroke engines are much easier to start than my old 2-stroke. I think I have used the electric start a half-dozen times. Even on the coldest days it will fire up on the first or second pull of the starter cord.
 
mpo said:
I have a similar snow blower. The single stage is fine for most of the snow we get here in SE Michigan. It doesn't like wet, heavy snow much, though.

The 4-stroke engines are much easier to start than my old 2-stroke. I think I have used the electric start a half-dozen times. Even on the coldest days it will fire up on the first or second pull of the starter cord.
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Yeah, the model I bought works fine. It cut through drifts over a foot high without any problems. I probably have to be more careful when I hit the packed snow and take smaller sections at a time.

I'm definitely not worried about it being single stage.
 
JohnOfSheffield said:
I have about half a mile of driveway to shovel and when it snows i don't go to the gym, talk about profit, i save money on doing something i need to do that is both cardio and full body movement.

And i'm retired so i usually don't have to be anywhere except when i want to, so i can take the time.
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Wait a minute, a half mile, lets say 2450ft X 10ft (width)=24,500ft (area) of snow to shovel, I'm calling shens on this one..
 
Mine is about 5'7 85kg's and she can do all those things mentioned in this thread. Blows, suck, cook the whole bundle. No machine in the world better
 
Glad you like it, but for literally just $100 more you could have had a larger one with a chute that can be turned by hand without bending over and I'd recommend that in most cases.
 
BUTCH1 said:
Wait a minute, a half mile, lets say 2450ft X 10ft (width)=24,500ft (area) of snow to shovel, I'm calling shens on this one..
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i agree.

unless he lives somewhere where snow is less then a inch. otherwise maybe he don't know how far half a mile is.

i had a place with a 1/4th mile drive. no way would i even think about shoveling it.
 
As a kid, our drive was 10 car lengths by 3. That was a 2-3 hour job with 3 boys and my dad with 6" snowfall.
That lasted for 2 years.
Third year, a lawn tractor and snow blower attachment showed up over the summer.

Figure a car (at that time) being 20 ft long and 8 ft wide; that drive was 200ft by 24ft.
 
I have had my large two stage snow thrower for 8 years now. and like waggy I can get through 3 or 4 feet of drifts in my driveway. I just put it in low gear and go through drifts higher than the auger shroud. One tip, don't aim your output chute too high, or it will just blow some of the snow back down on you. And yes an manually adjusted chute directional setting is really needed.
 
EagleKeeper said:
As a kid, our drive was 10 car lengths by 3. That was a 2-3 hour job with 3 boys and my dad with 6" snowfall.
That lasted for 2 years.
Third year, a lawn tractor and snow blower attachment showed up over the summer.

Figure a car (at that time) being 20 ft long and 8 ft wide; that drive was 200ft by 24ft.
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And a plow on a truck, or larger lawn tractor with a plow would have taken care of the job in 5 minutes. 😛
 
DrPizza said:
And a plow on a truck, or larger lawn tractor with a plow would have taken care of the job in 5 minutes. 😛
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No trucks, the 14hp lawn tractor was the largest at the time until you hit the true tractors.

Never figured out how to put a blade on the Chevy
 
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