Yeah, cuz digging snow out from behind your glasses because the wind swirled and you can't see is great fun! It's better when you get your eyelids closed before the fill-up, ask me how I know.
I'm a puzzy, ALL of our tractors have cabs, with heaters and A/C too......grin
I am in the, need it for the wife group too. Ariens Deluxe 24, I think.....
That's how we roll as well.
When we lived in Bozeman we had a sweet mid size Ariens. I worked concrete and as a side job in the winter did the snow removal at the condo complex where we lived. The Ariens was a fine machine and my wife would even run it.
Of course like an idiot I sold it when we moved up here to north east MT.
Replaced it with a larger and more awkward handling John Deere labeled machine. Not sure who makes the JD snow blowers but it has been a tough sonuvabitch.
It's easy work on smooth surfaces like a driveway/sidewalk but I get the most use out of it clearing corral pens that are too small to get a loader tractor into.
Knock on wood the only thing I've had to do to it are replace the shear bolts on the auger. I've hit all kinds of frozen chit, pieces of wood, buried feed tubs, you name it that thing has been through snow blower hell for the last 8-9 years.
If so I'll have to say my experience is almost completely different. 1999 325 / 42" single hasn't required anything except shear bolts till now. Edit to add; Cutter bars twice, and it's due for an auger housing replacement. Too many rocks in a 320 ft driveway.
Of course it's a beat up half broken old pos now, but I couldn't have asked for better service for the twenty years I've abused it.
Not that one, the one below it. Yours is a decent unit for a single stage.
Buy any snowblower you want as long as it's a Toro.
Personally I think the Honda is the best on the market. Having said that I bought a Toro in the mid 80's, and sold it in 2013, it was still running. Very little maintenance, if I had a place to get ethanol free gas I probably would have had no maintenance. I doubt it was in the shop 3 times in all those years. That was just carb problems. What ever size you think you need, I would get one size larger. One thing that did bother me, is I'm 6' 1" and I still had to lean over enough to reach the grips, which by the end of blowing snow, my lower back bothered me. My son at 6' 6" hated the machine. Something to consider if you get a lot of snow.
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Yeah, cuz digging snow out from behind your glasses because the wind swirled and you can't see is great fun! It's better when you get your eyelids closed before the fill-up, ask me how I know.
Huhmpf.. I learned early to blow snow DOWN wind... Try it - you'll like it!
Yeah, and you're going to just keep going downwind? How long does it take you to go around the world so's you don't have to go back upwind?
Mark
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Size it to the task. I get an average of 180" of snow per season, and use mine to blow a small city driveway about two or three times a week for five months of the year. For the last twenty plus years I've used the same 8 hp 22" Ariens. I've had to do a little work on it, but not much. I'd buy a bigger one if bigger meant taller, but it doesn't. Only wider. I don't care about wider, I can go back and forth more times, but taller would be actually useful.
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