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

It rained here for two days which is strange for northwestern Ontario at this time of the year.  This morning I woke up to two inches of slushy snow on the driveway.   Scraped it into heaps with the shovel then used the snow thrower to move it onto the lawn.  Real heavy stuff.  Just as I was getting that done, the temperature started dropping and a storm off of Lake Superior began blowing in and continues to do so.   According to the radar weather map, it's got a few hours to go yet. Looks like we got about three inches right now and I'd estimate that we'll have a good five to six inches by the time it's done.  I'll tell you this much.  I'd rather move two feet of normal snow rather than two inches of that slushy stuff I cleared this morning.  Nasty stuff to move an even nastier if you leave it to freeze.

The highest reading on my tach has been 3610.  The engine keeps rpms up fairly respectably until you keep feeding the wet or heavy snow to it.  After a few seconds of persistent  heavy load, the engine rpms will drop until the engine starts to get close to it's max torque range and starts barking.  Even under that kind of loading, the B&S engine doesn't bark nearly as much as my old 10 h.p. Tecumseh.   That thing would rattle and shake and sounded like it was ready to calf at any moment although, it never did stall.   The B&S ohv engine is a much nicer running machine that the old Tec L head.