Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

Anyone finding any scarcity of available models yet this year or is there an abundance still of all the popular brands/models?

The Home Depot in Concord NH on Loudin Rd. as of last week had tons of stock, 8hp, 11hp, Ariens, Toro 824's and some Yardman machines. It looks like folks bought up the cheaper machines first.

We have also had a slow season start this year. Once we get a few good storms in the stock will dissappear.

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Hay Chris S nice avatar! Hay, I want one too. I looked in my profile and could not find a box to select a avatar. What do I do?

Chris it is the moderator avatar. If you put your mouse arrow on it it will say moderator. I will be honest I am not a fan of it at all. I feel we need to be clearly marked so that newbees know exactly who we are. Moderator should be clearly written under our names. Marshall has already mentioned this and I agree. Rome wasn't built in a day though so we be patient and keep working on it.....

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T20 - You can put an image in your "quote box" via IMG SRC command. Thats how I got the JD thumbnail in mine.

ChrisS, Marshall, Dave_CT, Robmints: If you desire, you could put MODERATOR in your "quote box" for now so you are instantly recognized.

Marty

HD also seems well stocked in my area. The Honda dealer is sold out & has been since late October! Most of my local small OPE shops seem to have them in stock too. The inch we got last week didn't seem to scare anyone.

Marty

Hmmm,

There's and idea.....lol....

We shall see.....

Thanks Marty....

C

LOL....Now ain't that the truth!...

C

No problem Chris!! Hey, what are you doing up at 2am?

Marty

Thanks Majorxlr8n! You understand code like I do. But get me on C++, and I won't understand a thing!

Yah Chris S, but I beat you to it ha ha

Got out of work at midnight. I drove home in freezing rain. I can never get to sleep when I get home so I surf the net for awhile as the motor winds down so to speak lol....

I am a night person by nature but can get up early regularly if I have to.....

You are working nights now? I did that for years. Can be tough but can be really nice and peaceful also.

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Marty...

Good idea... I noticed the moderators have a "badge" next to their name...

Dave...

Blowers are scarce around here! Since we're not the snow capital of the world, and don't tend to get serious (for us) snow until January, the 6-20 inch storm our area got 2 weeks ago has pretty much blown out the blowers for the year. The box stores are empty....though I did see a few Toro singles at my fav. hardware store over the weekend. (at full msrp of course!)

Plenty of blowers at our local Home Depot on Friday.

Now, after we did the avatars under our name, now they no longer work. Did admin do something?

Emmo,

Last year, the HD by me ran out of blowers & had some shipped over from the Mid-West where they weren't moving out of the stores fast enough. If you wait, I'm sure the HD will again re-allocate in an effort to sell all their stock. This is surely one advantage a big box store has over the ocal OPE dealer as long as buyers are willing to maintain their own equipment.

Evidently so?

That Bites. Oh well, I will go and remove the extra text.

Termy, if we get it back I would prob save that area for OPE related PIC's.

Personally, I liked looking over there and seeing PIC's of different brands of LT's, GT's, Riders, Walk behinds, Snowblowers, etc. Gave it that OPE forum look.