# Snow Blower? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908 "2008-11-10T11:38:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![suppressive\_fire](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/suppressive_fire/32/5116_2.png) [@suppressive\_fire](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/suppressive_fire)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/21 "2008-11-10T22:47:25Z")
> [@nelstoys](#): > > Ariens are the best, cheapest blower i saw this year was 650. > > [http://www.toro.com/home/snowthrowers/gastwostage/1028LE.html](http://www.toro.com/home/snowthrowers/gastwostage/1028LE.html) > > Nice post thats my blower! I love it! anything from 3 inches to 3 feet it will blow without ever clogging. I love it. very awsome how u move the thrower in 1 quick sweep also. I also like the fact that the warentee is top notch. $ well spent. My friend has a craftsman, nothing but trouble. gravelys are the best… ---
**Author:** ![nelstoys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@nelstoys](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nelstoys)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/22 "2008-11-11T06:52:35Z")
hey lets hope we never have to use these things. I also have a 5hp toro for sale? Its 4 years old but i only used it 1 winter, still looks brand new no rust. I really didnt need an 9 hp thrower the 5 hp worked fine. Ill try to get some pics today. ---
**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/23 "2008-11-11T07:00:07Z")
If you’re buying a new one, quickstick type chute control FTW. ---
**Author:** ![nelstoys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@nelstoys](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nelstoys)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/24 "2008-11-11T08:41:09Z")
Well my dad sold my 5 hp toro, but here are the pics of the 2 i still use. The big one from other post holds its ground! The smaller one is good upto a foot and then its starts to be underpowerd. I kno there clean i love to keep my stuff like that. Price wise the big one was around 1500 and the small one was around 700. ![http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro002.jpg](http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro002.jpg) ![http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro004.jpg](http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro004.jpg) ![http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro003.jpg](http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k183/nelnova/Toro003.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/25 "2008-11-11T08:43:33Z")
looks like they work great! I can’t see any snow left at all. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/26 "2008-11-11T08:49:21Z")
Here you go. Massey Furgeson. Burly. [http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/911956183.html](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/911956183.html) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/27 "2008-11-11T08:50:24Z")
Or this guy for cheap. Put a new coil on it. Blow. [http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/911116830.html](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/911116830.html) ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/28 "2008-11-11T09:18:31Z")
No crapsman. Their stuff has taken a serious downturn in quality in the past 5 years. My mom bought one and after taking one look at it I had her take it back. Cheap plastic everywhere, including such high stress parts as the chute and chute aiming controls. I can picture just how quickly that will snap on a 10 degree day when you start firing snow/ice through it. I picked up a used Ariens that is older than me for $200 6+ years ago. All I’ve had to do to it is change the oil, change the plug, and put a new belt on one fall when I forgot to release the tension on it when putting it away in the spring and it stretched out. ---
**Author:** ![nelstoys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@nelstoys](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nelstoys)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/29 "2008-11-11T09:41:16Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > looks like they work great! I can’t see any snow left at all. My dog could not walk in the snow when she got old so i used to blow out the whole backyard with the small 1 for her. So i kinda did blow off the lawn in the entire backyard. ---
**Author:** ![Pauly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pauly/32/7493_2.png) [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/30 "2008-11-11T10:14:58Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > No crapsman. Their stuff has taken a serious downturn in quality in the past 5 years. My mom bought one and after taking one look at it I had her take it back. Cheap plastic everywhere, including such high stress parts as the chute and chute aiming controls. I can picture just how quickly that will snap on a 10 degree day when you start firing snow/ice through it. > . +1 i bought one 4-5 years ago on sale in the late summer. I put it together and when it snowed i used it once. I then loaded it in my truck and returned it. I then drove to rochester and bought a Troy Built from Lowes(before lowes was in buffalo) I’ve been pretty happy with it and never had a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Quattro\_Krant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ac91a4/32.png) [@Quattro\_Krant](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quattro_Krant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/31 "2008-11-11T10:21:26Z")
Not trying to rain on you’re pardade or just repeat what everyone else is saying. I bought a Ariens at Home Depot when I opened a credit card there a few years ago and saved 10% on it. Cost something like $1300 as I got a bigger sized model. The thing is great! I know that they make smaller ones with 5 or 6 hp engines that would probabally be in the $ range you are looking to spend. BACK in the day we had an old Craftsman snowblower that was silver it was so old, and before that, a gold one, the gold one was going back to 1979, same year as me. My dad sold that when we got the silver one from my aunt and I bet it’s still going as it had a Kohler engine. Anyways, the silver one was unstoppable, well, unstopable until my dog dragged a nice split piece of firewood into the yard and I was blowing a path for her to walk in and, yeah… blew the case for the blower into a million pieces. ---
**Author:** ![nelstoys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@nelstoys](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nelstoys)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908/32 "2008-11-11T10:22:05Z")
crafstman lawnmowers suck, just makes sense that there blowers do to. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snow-blower/57908.md?page=1)