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

Ariens mounts there motors behind the axle, moving weight of the scoop. It definitely makes it easy to handle; so far, it is the only 30" that doesn't scare my wife. However, not scaring my wife isn't the main criteria.

If the weight is on the nose it resists riding up. If the weight in on the rear wheels it aids traction. Going uphill, additional weight transfers to the wheels. Going downhill, it transfers to the scoop. Although that may or may not be significant.

So which is better? The most bias to the wheels as possible?

As a side bar, several snow blowers have optional weights to go on the scoop. These typically are on the top, a bit forward of the skid shoe. And rather small, 10#. More like an offset for a cab. Is higher overall weight better? Is it better to have 80# on the nose and 170# on the wheels or 150# on the nose and 170# on the wheels?

No worries mate, all we need is a binary decision diagram.  Anyone seen one of these?

Shryp wrote:
I bet it was an out-of-round nut tightened using a metric crescent wrench.

I think we all agree that doing your homework prior to a large purchase is prudent but DavidNJ takes it to a whole different level - YIKES!

I applaud him for  "pioneering" spirit and relentless devotion to eradicate mis-information and propaganda on this forum to set us straight. 

And not to mention the relentless drive to point out the "not-so-obvious" things that most of us just say "who cares" or "what's the f*&* difference?"

The answer is, do you want to move snow or spend lots of intimate time with your snow blower?

aa335 wrote:

Most of us don't give a damn about most of these inane ramblings of his since they serve no purpose other that to boost up his post count.

DavidNJ wrote:

Well it's apparant from sucha strong Democrat and Obama lover such as yourself that you'd rather work out irrelevant figures on napkins and annoy most people with useless info than actually blow any snow. It seems to me that all you want to blow is Hot Air! Perhaps you should forget snowblowers and take up hot air ballooning or politics.

Steve_Cebu wrote:
You should really tell us what you think.  :)

DavidNJ wrote:
You should ask yourself the same question....

FrankMA wrote:

I think DavidNJ spends too much intimate time with his snowblower. :)