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

For single stage users, can these be used on end of driveway hard chunks? I hear you can break it up first with a shovel but seems there would still be hard chunks. Would it beat up the machine? I live in New England and because of several different factors I have to compromise and the single stage Toro 621 would be my best compromise right now. I have a driveway that is a little over 2 cars long and do a run of about 10 yards by the mailbox all EOD and clear out an area going to the deck in back on one side and for the oil man on the other that would both be over grass one about 10 yards long and the other about 15 yards long. Have you ever done EOD with one of these.

Got some snow here finally.  Not much maybe three inches, fine, heavy and a bit moist.  The stuff at the end of the driveway was a mixture of slush and snow.  Did the entire driveway with the old Craftsman SS then tackled the EOD which was maybe 18" high.  

The picture below is a screen grab from a video so you'll have to excuse the quality.  Nonetheless, it gives some idea of the distance that the Craftsman can throw fairly heavy snow when it's on the revs.