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

Can someone tell me  how old is this one stage is?

Interesting point.

If I understand you correctly the defining thing is that the auger either turns or could turn at a different RPM from the impeller. I suppose you could also argue that the impeller has to be in a separate, albeit connected housing as well. Point taken.

To post a link that you just "click" on you highlight the word or phrase that you want to represent the link, such as this, and then click on the button above the typing area that looks like a blue sphere with two links of a chain ( 5th button from right). A box will appear that allows you to insert the actual URL. You can even put in other URL types or protocols if you want such as e-mail, ftp, https even news. I've only used the URL, http option. If you change your mind you can remove the link by highlighting the word/phrase and clicking on the button to the right of the one you used previously. It has a broken chain at the bottom.

Just my opinion but the defining characteristics between single stage and two stage snow throwers is that there are either one or two stages of the snow moving process.  In a single stage, the high speed auger carries out both gathering and ejecting of the snow.  A two stage has a slower speed gathering process feeding snow into the second high speed  ejection stage.  I'd say that old piece of equipment is a serious single stage for sure and a clever design as well. 

nibbler wrote:
Yes, it seems that the commonly accepted definition of a 2-stage is the presence of an impeller that is physically distinct from the auger.

As for posting links I can't for the life of me figure what I'm doing wrong, I've been posting links in all forms and fashions on forums for almost 20 years but this is one of the very few where it just won't work. This forum doesn't seem to allow manual formatting with BBCode tags such as [url][/url] and when I use the box I have no problem pasting the url into it but it invariably yields a blank after I hit the OK button. I find this puzzling because the image box works flawlessly...

yeah in my opinion its a single stage because the impeller and the augar are moving at the same speed!

niper99 wrote:
Yeah, thats what I thought too in my opinion

Are you highlighting a word or phrase first? I tried posting a URL a couple of time without highlighting anything and it appeard that there was nothing there after I clicked on the "Ok" button on the URL dialogue box.

Here's and example:

1. No highlighted word or phrase;
2. Highlighted word here.

In the first case I had the cursor "between" characters, there's nothing to associate the URL with. In the second case I highlighted the word "here" and did the exact same operation. The URL that I pasted into the dialogue box is now associated with the word.