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

Does anyone have an opinion on which one is more durable?Simplicity P1628E or Honda 928WAS?Also which one would be better at throwing 2-4 inches of that heavy wet snow??

I have had similar experiences Trouts. 

I've had wheel spin and never had disk slippage unless the disk was contaminated. 

My last old Craftsman machine actually broke two axle shear bolts for some reason.  I ended up having to put a hardened bolt through the axle drive to keep it from happening again.  In all of my years of experience, I've never had an issue with a disk drive unless it had water or lube get on it accidentally, which was next to never.   

I had some slippage on my Craftsman due to water the first year I used it.  After installing the larger auger pulley and belt cover it seems to have cured all of those ills. The areas that leakage was occurring are apparently covered by the new cover.  I've had her through many feet of dry powder as well as wet snow and no slipping. 

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Borat, I had it happen as a one time thing.  Put it in the garage, dried it off and never happened again. Some freak chance thing happend.  I actually never think about slippage unless someone mentiones it on the forum.  The only way I think about slippage it's telling you your way over what you should be doing.  You get used to that don't approach it.  That's the way I clear.  If I want more $#%* I buy them. Bigger is better. 

Snowmachine, interesting design.  Maybe you were fussy with the fit which does look good but you swamped out the error so the fit does not need to be so fussy.  Nice.  What's the box on top for?  Is that a dope stash, tool kit or what?  The main box looks welded.  Is it?

trouts2 wrote:
Some of the newer blowers have that labeled as extra shear pin storage.  Looks like it is big enough to keep some tools for changing them out too so you don't have to run back to the garage.

You could be right on there for the fit.

Cover is from a Crown series Husqvarna unit.

That is a tool kit box built into the cover and all is just plastic.


trouts2 wrote:

The box is where you're supposed to keep your shear pins. However, I wouldn't use it because the lid will sometimes open unexpectedly.  Not only that, chances are that you'll need to punch out the piece of the broken pin.  The tools you'll need for that, won't fit in that box.  So, you might as well keep the pins near the tools you'll need to replace them.

Found that out recently.  I broke first shear pin on this blower a couple weeks ago.  I had to go searching for my punch set to get it out.

borat wrote:

borat wrote:
Sounds like a perfect place to put spare shear pins.    Under 3 inches of snow.