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

          How many of you folks out there with MTD snowblowers, have had problems, or no problems?

Let's count and see how :"Junky MTD" does !!, compared to Ariens great QC ! ! ! 

                                                                 Fred            

colecacola wrote:
FYI, Sno-Thro is a trademark from the Ariens Company.

I used this statement to make my chioce in October, 2003, from    http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/snowbuying.html#shopping.  Also i used the info from this group of guys, and have been reading this four-um since then   .   I like the Ariens,but no track model for my steep driveway.  Alomost got the MTD Track model (do not like the triiger drive system when I tried a friends), But glad I got the Honda for the Hydrostatic drive!.   I works well for me.                                                                                  18 DEGREES     

I call my Ariens Sno-Thro.  I think of single stages as snowblower as they kind of blow snow.  They bigger ones actually throw snow as do they single stages, but not as far.  I call them snowthrowers.  You might catch me saying either one though ...lol      I also like what nibbler said.

Chris amd Marshall,

Since you have banned one person for speaking out.

 I'm mostly likly next, I would like to express my deep feelings througha quote.

     It expresses my feelings to the letter as what this forum should be. 

                              In 1906, Evelyn B. Hall wrote, 

   " I dissaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" .

                                                                                                        Fred     

SIGH, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT FRED, I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE NO ONE IS SQUELCHING YOU. WE WOULD JUST LIKE WHAT THREADS YOU POST TO BE DONE IN A MORE POSITIVE AND THOUGHTFUL MANNER. WHAT'S SO DAMN HARD ABOUT THAT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND? IF I HAD IT IN VIDEO FORMAT, I WOULD GLADY PRESENT IT THAT WAY FOR YOU. NEVER HAS ONE OF YOUR POSTS BEEN EDITED OR DELETED.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT AND WANT TO CONTINUE TO POST NEGATIVELY, THEN FIND A NEW FORUM MY FRIEND, THERE ARE MANY THAT YOU YOU CAN FIGHT IN 24/7/365 IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.

Marshall,

           WHAT WAS NEGATIVE ABOUT MY LAST POST????????

                                                                     FRED

FRED, PICK A FIGHT ELSEWHERE, I'M NOT PLAYING THE GAME. 

jubol wrote:
Sounds like a little harmless brand competition /bashing to me.Hey Fred,you got a few replies on this one.Hey...there all sheet metal and motor,some the same motors at that.some of them have better sheet metal,paint,bearings or bushings,but a rusted old MTD will run forever if it is maintained. Ariens is dominant I believe because of their rep.They are noted for snowbloweres like Skidoo is for sleds.Lots of MTD buys because thats what True Values and others carry.Sears...well,you know.Hey lets all pop a couple ov V's ans go to Sears and look at those big 13 horse jobs....

Yeah,Petes right.Put it up on the wheels and shake it.If its wobbly don't get it

jubol wrote:

Sigh,

Fred I would be angry at you if you knew what I know but you don't.  As a rule we the moderators for the most part keep what goes on behind the scenes to ourselves.  You all do not come here to deal  with issues and problems and I don't blame you.  These past few weeks have been quite time consuming and rough on us mods in terms of dealing with the "one person" who spoke out as you put it.   Folks come here wanting opinions and giving opinions and that is what it is all about and it is all good.  It is HOW they go about doing it that we the mods keep an eye on. 

Remember also that folks come here to help, to learn, for comradery and to have some fun.  If they want to be aggravated they can sit in their own living room and accomplish that I am sure.  They certainly wouldn't come here....Unless you enjoyed trouble.

I will not bore you with the hours we have spent trying to keep SnowRemover under control and keep this forum as pleasant as possible with the tools that we had to start out with.  He was asked to stop causing trouble, he was warned many times.  It was not like it was a suprise to him.  He was really quite the whack job and clearly not mentally stable as seen by one of his post to me after I banned him;

"you really can't keep me off. I use anonymizer to constantly change IP addresses, and you can get a million email addresses for free.

I just started playing nice, do you really want my wrath on this site. If yes, you will have to maintain a constant vigilance to delete posts. Or, let me back on and we can be buddies."

He then attacked the forum and it took all of us Mods to keep him at bay until the owners and the programer Peter finished him off and made sure we will be able to deal with someone like him in the future.

So now knowing some of what I know you may still think it was wrong for us (me in particular as I pulled the trigger) to ban SnowRemover.  I actually respect that if you still do.  That said remember this is not a democracy, it is a privately owned website that we have been allowed to use for free I might add.  We have all been given terms of use to live by that are pretty reasonable I might add, they are at the bottom of the page BTW take a look.  Any interpretation of these rules are where we the mods come in.  We have ALL been asked to make this a great site to visit.  It requires work and effort by everyone.  If there are problems we try to work it out together but if it cannot be resolved we the mods talk it over and make a decision and that is it.  We don't have to do this too often (until lately lol...) but we will if we have to.

Fred you started this post when there was a lot of negativity being generated by a certain person.  I told you my opinion when it started and I still feel the same way. 

I am going to ask you as a respected member of this forum to reasses this situation and reflect upon what put us here in the first place and then I would like us to move on.

Thank you Fred,

C