Hard to believe that I am thinking of a new snowblower... Any advice? Currently I am looking at single stages mainly a toro and a cub cadet. I know toro is the most popular, has anyone had good luck with cub cadet?
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This times 1000. Unless you only have a very small area to snowblow a 2 stage would be well worth it.I'd recommend spending a couple hundred more and get a 2 stage. You won't regret it.
I love my Craftsman 2-stage. I got the previous year's model last year. It was sub-$700 I think. Two things I LOVE about it is the joystick control of snow-direction and the power-steering(brakes on both sides).
My Toro single stage has been worry-free since I got it in '04. My driveway is about 30' wide at the garage and about 60' long. That, along with all of the sidewalk, means that it gets a decent workout each snowfall.
Single stage snowblowers have come a long way in the last twenty years.
Some of the times that I had several feet in my driveway I think the only way I would have been able to clear it with a single stage would be to pick it up and use it as a shovel.
My motto on power tools is look for the biggest that you think you'll need and then go another couple of steps up. I wish I would have done this with the air compressor I recently bought.
Most people can get by with a single stage, it is true. I had a John Deere single stage for 10 years and it mostly performed well. Where it lacked was heavy, wet snow and that giant pile left by the snowplow at the end of the driveway. It could not handle that stuff well at all and I burned a few belts off over the years.Hard to believe that I am thinking of a new snowblower... Any advice? Currently I am looking at single stages mainly a toro and a cub cadet. I know toro is the most popular, has anyone had good luck with cub cadet?
My Toro single stage has been worry-free since I got it in '04. My driveway is about 30' wide at the garage and about 60' long. That, along with all of the sidewalk, means that it gets a decent workout each snowfall.
Single stage snowblowers have come a long way in the last twenty years.