My wife is very sure that it "always snows heavily on a day that I have to drive to work". No, darling. You just care/notice less when you're at home vs. driving in it.
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.
Yeah, I think Fuzz and Slava are right on that one, we live on a snow route as well and we have an industrial grade gas snowblower because just as soon as I clear the goddamned snow the City 'clears' the street and creates the Night's Watch Ice Wall in front of my driveway.
Now I got kind of lucky in circumstance because my snowblower looks like it was designed to clear Airport Runways and I only got it because....short story, Lowe's bought RONA, so RONA couldn't sell the thing anymore so I got it for pennies on the dollar and there was zero selection.
"This is what we have. We have to get rid of it. Its cheap like Borscht. Take it or leave it."
So I took it.
There was an advantage to the Ice Wall in front of the driveway though. My and my wife's SUVs had no problems with it at all but my In-Laws' car couldnt get over it...it dramatically reduced visits...so I had that going for me, which is nice.
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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.
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.
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