What is I ONLY need a 2 stage for EOD Original Message Oct 1, 2011 8:48 am
Moved into NYC last year. The way the houses sit / snow, not much place to blow snow just short of the backyward.
For all intents and purposes, the single stage - even with last years heavy snowfall, did the job, albit slower. I was living in NH previously and had a 2 stager.
I don't tend to blow snow while it's ~snowing~ as the snow is just blowing everywhere and will just settle and level with the rest of the snow - so it's a moot point for me to take smaller bites. I'd rather wait till it snows and then go out and then snowblow.
I'd have to get rid of the SS if I went for the 2 Stage. My setup does not allow me to have 2 for storage.
The EOD is brutal however. Last year, I shoveled and blew the driveway and 18+ out (close towards the edge of curbside parking) and left a 8+" thick wall of snow parallel to the curbside cars and my driveway. The friendly snowplow decided to break that wall and plow the heap of snow that I cleared out. So even leaving a ~wall~ of snow -------the plows just come in and push to the right, all night and daylong. Hence my consideration for a 2 stage.
The 24" is MAX I can go in width - that due to some ironwork gated areas I need to push the plow past. So it would be a Ariens 24" Deluxe. Seems like ALOT of weight just to deal with EOD. It would make blowing the backyward, etc faster ----but also more work to move in some tight space where a single stage is easily manhandled.
Debating. Whether to spring for the 2 stage or stick with the SS
