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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
We moved and are now on a snow route. Anyone have feedback on battery snow blowers capability to chew through the crud left behind when the city "clears" the snow? I'm thinking of getting one so I can blow the area near the sidewalk on the road that gets piled up but it gets chunky hard and icy.
I'm looking at either the Snow Joe 80V 2 stage or the ryobi 2 stage.
I'm thinking battery so I can clear snow early in the mornings without waking people up before going to work.
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IMO, the difference in sound for an electric vs gas isn't going to be significant enough to be courteous to neighbors, especially on a snow route. If you truly want to be courteous, it's ignoring the sound and clearing two spots for vehicles/temp spaces for delivery trucks?
Chewing through crud wise, I think it's less electric vs gas and more like you might want a metal auger over a rubber one for solid materials. I think most basic electrics have rubber augers, not sure if there's ones with metal. There's lots of gas ones that have rubber vs metal augers too.
If the average material is more slushy/soft, then I don't think it's a huge difference. Snow routes are probably full of hard chunks like car poop though. You might want to spray the chute with an oil for particularly heavy and wet road piles so it doesn't gum up.