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

We are smack in the middle of February  and here in Montreal Quebec Canada , i've only taken the toro out twice. Talk about no snow. Seems when I was a young lad growing up in the 70's and early 80' s we had so much more snow.

Have you guys used your machines much this year? I've used more wd40 and oil than gas

Cheers

Jim 

In my area we had about 12 inches of white on 23 December, three storms since then about 4-6 inches. The Toro 726 has worked like a charm thus far. Maybe 2-4 inches coming 20 February, we'll see.

AZ

How many times this winter did you get the beast out?

Hey, what I do with "my buddy" is none of your business!

Marshall wrote:

LOL,

Marshall,

He didn't ask you what you did with it, just how many times you had it out!

Sounds like I have the greatest number of uses, but not the winner for total snow fall amounts.  My blower has been out 10 times so far, and my neighbors machine has been used by me three times.  In early January, I put on the Sendec tach/hour meter.  My display is reading 9 hrs..  The weatherman is calling for a 1" event tonight but nothing more.  I want to continue to try out my chain tensioner modification and now my new adjustable carburator.

bbwb

bbwb wrote:
Ritchie's experiment got to you?

Only once and I played for an hour.  We are supposed to get 3-5 inches Sunday into Monday. 

Not much :( I think I should refresh my gasoline in the tank in case of

If I had a beast I would tell him to eat the snow then I would not need a snowblower lol

When I bought my machine I tried to get everyone I knew to kick in on it since I was sure the minute I bought a snowblower the snow would end, forever.  I thought of it as insurance against snow! So far it's worked well as insurance. I've only used it twice, once last year and on the 12 incher we got this year. It's worked wonderfully when it was needed and it's great insurance.

Like others said we are expecting a minor snow event in eastern PA this evening but it sounds like it's not enought to even bother firing El Toro up.

Jerry

Awesome picture AJace!

Only good week of snow here outside of Buffalo was a few weeks ago when I was vacationing in Mexico...my son had all the fun.

I have been using the Ariens 1332 DLE every few days to clear drifts and a few inches here and there.  I am really waiting for a nice "dumping" to really test the baby out.
So far it has never come close to bogging down or clogging.

Nothing worthy of a picture yet, but here we still have almost a few months of snow left.

The way I see it, you don't cry because you just paid for another year of fire insurance and your house did not burn down all year...........
It's a fact that we have good and bad years, and as long as I live here, there WILL be snowfalls worthy of my snowblower.

Frank D.