Thanks to your suggestion, and a few YouTube videos and after some annoying challenges, including lots of grease and oil (oil leaks are one of the problems with new Ariens and it caused the problem last year), I changed the belt and cleared a few key spots. Just need to survive this winter and then sell it and buy in Florida.
Yep. Light snow it'd be pretty cool and you could be done in just a few minutes. If it was snow like the storm we just had. It would be problematic.
The new electric ones, 2 stage are pretty nice… I like the idea of no carburetor, no gas, no spark plugs, no oil changes. My only beef is price. Like them to come down by $300 before I buy… But if you’re in the market now, you have options…
Looked at those yesterday in case I couldn't get the Ariens running. Reviews on the Ryobi say it can't handle wet heavy snow and the runtime is short. That's my worry with a long, steep driveway and a location that gets wet snow. I think the EGO is better and more robust, but it is expensive. Still I agree that there's a lot less to break. That one is "heavy" for electric, but still 100 pounds lighter than my gas model.
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1.5” at my house this morning. But a hellish half mile drive to my daughter’s bus stop. Glue snow on top of ice. Make it stop already.
Unfortunately shear pins break at the most inopportune time after the heaviest snowfalls. At least in my case.
"I had a Honda". Well there you go. That will do it.
Get a cat
I got lucky in that purchase. Bought used from a neighbor that hired a service and didn’t need it
My Briggs and Stratton is garbage. It's the old Tecumsah engines that were bulletproof.
I have had issues with both. Old versus new is really the issue. The new stuff is crap. Only the japanese engines are still decent.
Go slow and step your way into it. My Toro has triggers on each handle to disengage the wheels. You can do one, to help steer, or both, to stop. I move a foot, stop, move a foot, stop and so on until I get through it.
Hawk, many DID know it was coming. The late, great Dr. Mel, was discussing it before, when he was forecasting on Ch-8. Ch's- 3, 8, 30 all had discussed the impending storm. I do recall only Mel was really touting Blizzard Larry. I was working, at Naval Submarine Base FIre Department in Groton, back then. I remember a cold morning, but no snow. About 10 am, it went from nothing to OH in the span of about an hour. Whipping winds, horizontal snow, and cars stranded all over the base. Ended up working 72 hours straight, before going home.
