victorytea

Thanks everyone for your time and advice. I think I will wait for Feb and see what kind of a deal I can get from the biggies. Not much snow here in the past 10 days or so. I may be selling some property, and if I do, I will just haul off and buy a machine. Things are not dismal at all but money sure has been tight lately.  My oldest son has the Ariens deluxe but I don't think I need that much of a machine. From reading the various posts, it seems like Toro is the choice of many but I'm not sure where to get one around here. Ariens is sold by Home Depot. My son suggested the compact version with the Suburu engine. Thanks again- Paul.

I live in Red Creek Ny  and have a small  (40') driveway. I've been looking at the Ariens compact models. BTW, Alan, I got your message- THANKS. Paul

Oldcrow;
          Thanks for taking my post seriously and for your intelligent, benevolent response. I guess you have seen times when money was scarce? We have a 4 year old son with some medical problems and I am trying to stretch our dollars as far as possible. I really don't take offense to the 1st guys comment as he probably doesn't  know our situation. Thanks again, Paul

When do snowblowrs generally go on sale. I live in central New York. Thanx, Paul