who makes a good snow blower?

[NICKG]

i am need ing a 2 stage snow blower, i am looking at a 5hp to 11 hp. electric start is nice but will i need it? heres what i looked at
mtd
craftsman
arriens
snapper
john deer(expensive)
toro
yardman
honda(very expensive but i think it was best probably)
used(older the bettre?)
what should i get? am i better off with the higher hp models? I live in nj and we got freekin killed last year and i am sick of shoveling! any advice is helpfull

 

[Little6pack]

Here is where horsepower mean something!

I have a 5hp toro single stage. It sucks, Partly because my
dad owned it & never took care of it.


I would say the Deere is number #1 but agree $$$$$$$

My neighbor came over to bail me out last year with his WAL-MArt
MTD 11hp large cut 26"? & it went through the snow like butter.
While I stood there with broken toro..

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Too early to think about snow but Lowes and Home Depot have had theirs out on display for a few weeks now! Best thing I bought for the new house last Feb was a Toro Snow Commander. It IS only a single stage 2 stroke but this thing is great. It paid for itself last winter and probably saved me a heart attack if I had tried to shovel all that damn white stuff last year. Sounds like a motocross bike, just start it and it runs at max speed. It has rubber paddles that propel it forward it was throwing snow so far I could cover my neighbor's driveway a good 35 feet away. It's also lightweight, loaded it into my Blazer myself, try doing that with a dual stage.

Couple of drawbacks with this unit. No reverse, which isn't a big deal in my case. (flat double wide driveway about 75 feet long) and you can't really bring it from the backyard to the driveway in the middle of a storm as the paddles are what propels it. I will solve that by moving it to my garage from the shed if snow is forecast.

 

[WE4]

Hrmmm

A very cold whore? ROFL

Do I win anything?



Bruce
WE4

 

[Little6pack]

UGG the thought of SNOW is killing me..

I am putting the GN in OFFSITE Storage, HEATED, alarmed
this year. $100- a month and acessible 9-5 days.

It was way to hard having it in the garage looking at it.
Now my wife can have tha garage for the winter.

 

[NICKG]

single stage won't cut it...i have an old fashioned driveway

my house was built in the later 1880's. i have a carriage type driveway(it had 2 parrallel strips of concrete and dirt/grass in the middle) that has deteriorated badly and has a hill at the street. i am getting estimates to pave it(it is 90 ft long and 10-12 ft wide) but even still i want to buy a snow blower once so i will not buy a 2 stroke(i have plenty of 2 stroke atv and mx bikes ) but i figured the 4 stroke blowers last longer. at one point last year we got over 40" of snow in the big storm last year. I had share of shoveling and my neighbor came over and did my entire drive in 15 min while it took me over 3 hrs to do just the front! that is why i am looking at a 2 stage unit.

 

[WakkoSS]

Snowblower? What's that?

 

[AsphaltAnihil8r]

Dont be fooled by a single stage ,,,that is the problem ,Buick guys hear 2 stage an they are all over it I had a LONG driveway at my last house and houses and either side so I have to throw the snow very far since I couldnt throw it to the sides..the guy at the store talked my into a 6.5 Toro GTD(garunteed to start),,man if I could buy that guy a Beer .... A 2 stage has to turn the snow inside of the blower in order to throw it (hard to explain this ) but the single stage is just spinning in the direction that it is throwing it ,,,my neighbor made the 2 stage mistake ,,he has a smaller drive that I do ,,,but I am first to have some beer chillin in my snow pile,

 

[AsphaltAnihil8r]

Originally posted by WakkoSS
Snowblower? What's that?

It's what you guys call a Waverunner...or would that be a Snowmobile

 

[Bens87tr]

I used my neighbor's Areins for a week once. That thing blew the doors off of my snowblower (MTD, kinda cheep). It was smaller and less HP too.