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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
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Re: Best Snowblower for Your Wife
Reply #11 Nov 19, 2011 8:49 pm |
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The deal breaker for my wife was the starting part. When she pulled, she said why is this thing so hard to pull. AA335 is right about having an electrical start for the MRS. But an electric start has an issue of its own too, my wife probably would say why is this thing so complicated. I would say the shovel is the simplist and most elegant snowblower out there.
Ok my wife is only 84 lbs. and she's 4'10" tall and here is a video of her starting our snowblower for the first use of the season. My wife is awful with technical things and yet she was able to start the Toro.
It's not complicated at all you slide the throttle lever all the way over, turn the choke switch all te way left, press the fuel button 3 times, and Pull start it. Then after 20 seconds turn the choke switch and you are good to go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u9Y7ELfI3M
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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blumonster
Location: Wisc.
Joined: Oct 14, 2011
Points: 163
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Re: Best Snowblower for Your Wife
Reply #13 Nov 20, 2011 10:55 am |
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Ok my wife is only 84 lbs. and she's 4'10" tall and here is a video of her starting our snowblower for the first use of the season. My wife is awful with technical things and yet she was able to start the Toro. It's not complicated at all you slide the throttle lever all the way over, turn the choke switch all te way left, press the fuel button 3 times, and Pull start it. Then after 20 seconds turn the choke switch and you are good to go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u9Y7ELfI3M Your wife looks like a good sport.Certainly not the norm when it comes to snow blowers, lawnmowers.
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Steve_Cebu
Joined: Dec 17, 2009
Points: 888
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Re: Best Snowblower for Your Wife
Reply #16 Nov 20, 2011 9:24 pm |
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Steve, Not only your wife a good sport but she is one good looking/fit woman. She probably can kick my butt!
Thanks and yeah she can probably kick my butt as well!
Thankfully she isn't like that at all.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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New_Yorker
Preach the Gospel always, use words when necessary
Location: Long Island, NY
Joined: Nov 26, 2010
Points: 219
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Re: Best Snowblower for Your Wife
Reply #17 Nov 20, 2011 10:02 pm |
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At 15 1/2 My Father was Dead from a heart attack. In those days 15 year old sons replaced the snowblower quite effectively. But the there were no video games, Mc Donald's had one burger store out in Centereach Long Isand, and nowhere else on Long Island, and we had not yet coined the term, "Couch Potato". My Mother only shoveled snow when I wasn't around to do it, a rare occurrence at 15 A Honda Engine, with fresh gas, a clean or new spark plug and all the controls properly set starts on the first pull, and I own two of these engines GX 270's rated at 9 HP, one is 11 years old. If your's didn't start on the first pull, you were doing something Incidentally . . . I use ONLY 100% Synthetic Motor Oil in these engines Because Non-Synthetic or synthetic blends contain Parrafin Wax in the oil which Thickens and makes starting in cold weather when the oil is thick, considerably more difficult. 100% Synthetic 0-W40 Amsoil 4 cycle oil is what I use exclusively. 100% Synthetic Oil has NO Parrafin Wax to thicken when cold, and create Engine Sludge as the engine operates.
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