# which snow blower to buy **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019 "2008-12-19T10:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/1 "2008-12-19T10:38:53Z")
so the land lord is a cheap bastard and wont buy the apartment a snow blower and he can only make it over like once a week. so i need to buy one. i really dont have 5-600 to spend on one. will one of those electric jobbers do?(i have enough extension cord for the drive way) or does anyone know of a used one for 300ish? looking to buy tomorrow. what i found at [lowes.com](http://lowes.com) ($299) [http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=275770-163-38025&lpage=none](http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=275770-163-38025&lpage=none) ![http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/021038/021038380254md.jpg](http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/021038/021038380254md.jpg) ($359) [http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=188489-270-31A-2M1A762&lpage=none](http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=188489-270-31A-2M1A762&lpage=none) ![http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/043033/043033547142md.jpg](http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/043033/043033547142md.jpg) or should i just man up and spend 550 on a dual stage self propelled one? ill just have to watch my spending on other stuff for the winter. ($589) [http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=189194-270-31AM62N2711&lpage=none](http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=189194-270-31AM62N2711&lpage=none) ![http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/043033/043033547197md.jpg](http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/043033/043033547197md.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/2 "2008-12-19T10:39:59Z")
There is Misc items trader thread ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/3 "2008-12-19T10:41:50Z")
sorry, i didnt plan on starting it as a wtb thread, its more of a which to buy ---
**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/4 "2008-12-19T10:42:13Z")
seems a little late for that. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/5 "2008-12-19T10:43:34Z")
better off on craigslist getting something bigger, used ---
**Author:** ![eMKay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/emkay/32/7428_2.png) [@eMKay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eMKay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/6 "2008-12-19T10:56:08Z")
Craftsman 2-stage 24", is that what’s in the bottom pic? I just bought one a few weeks ago for $599. If it’s $550 not it’s a great price. I had a single stage like the first two you posted and they are useless, they clog up with any sort of wet snow that is at the end of the driveway. Useless P.O.S’s. get the 2 stage. EDIT: I see the 2-stage is a Troy-built 24", it’s pretty much exactly like the one I just bought at Sears, I just got done using it 10 minutes ago, it easily handled today’s snowfall. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/7 "2008-12-19T11:02:43Z")
[http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/963742303.html](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/963742303.html) Offer him $300. Screw that plastic fantastic craftsman garbage. My Ariens was built somewhere around 1970 and I use it to clear the end of my neighbors driveway when his POS new craftsman bogs down. Another one: [http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/962491858.html](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/962491858.html) ---
**Author:** ![eMKay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/emkay/32/7428_2.png) [@eMKay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eMKay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/8 "2008-12-19T11:08:03Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > [http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/963742303.html](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/grd/963742303.html) > > Offer him $300. > > Screw that plastic fantastic craftsman garbage. My Ariens was built somewhere around 1970 and I use it to clear the end of my neighbors driveway when his POS new craftsman bogs down. That Airens POS is the same as my Craftsman but…older. Meh. No electric start, and likely everything is worn out. ---
**Author:** ![87GN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/87gn/32/5193_2.png) [@87GN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/87GN)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/9 "2008-12-19T11:18:37Z")
> [@eMKay](#): > > That Airens POS is the same as my Craftsman but…older. Meh. No electric start, and likely everything is worn out. Haha yeah right, the old Airens and Toro snowblowers are probably the best that were ever made. The craftsman snowblowers they sell now are flimsy pieces of shit. I had to fix my neighbors for him about 3 times because different things kept breaking. And PS they do have electric start. ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/10 "2008-12-19T11:22:12Z")
> [@eMKay](#): > > That Airens POS is the same as my Craftsman but…older. Meh. No electric start, and likely everything is worn out. lol @ you for even putting crapsman in the same sentence as a Airens ---
**Author:** ![Eazy716](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eazy716/32/7443_2.png) [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/11 "2008-12-19T11:26:59Z")
love my Ariens, but it certainly wasnt cheap ---
**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:** [December 19, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/12 "2008-12-19T11:29:26Z")
> [@eMKay](#): > > That Airens POS is the same as my Craftsman but…older. Meh. No electric start, and likely everything is worn out. You know cars, but you don’t know snowblowers. 😉 I’ve had people tell me if the motor on mine ever dies and I’m not going to fix it to let me know because they’ll buy it off me because “they just don’t make the frames like these old ones”. I wouldn’t mind picking up a craftsman from the 80’s, early 90’s, but the stuff they sell today is garbage. Plastic chutes, plastic chute aiming levers… shit breaks the first time you try to use it below 20 degrees. AND PS, the first one I linked does have electric start. ---
**Author:** ![paulysplitx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulysplitx/32/7320_2.png) [@paulysplitx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/paulysplitx)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/13 "2008-12-19T11:48:41Z")
I just put some money into my grandpa’s old Ariens he left in the garage when I bought the house. Much like the first one JayS posted. That thing is a beast and built strong unlike all that new crap. Starts up almost every time will 1 pull. I even have an electric start but I have yet needed a reason to use it. Classics FTW ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/14 "2008-12-19T12:36:23Z")
i alredy sent the first guy an email, and he is in batavia which is 25 mins from me. well prob 45 with all the idiots out on the roads. you think 300 would be fair? ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/15 "2008-12-19T12:45:17Z")
Old Ariens blowers are like Hondas, only better they really don’t break. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/16 "2008-12-19T12:48:24Z")
Ariens for the win! Workhorses! And agreed…2 stage or nothing. Single stage you’ll end up shoveling anyhow if it’s packed or slushy. ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/17 "2008-12-19T13:09:58Z")
I’ve heard good things about Ariens, but I don’t have a grand+ to drop on a snowblower. I have a Honda snowthrower now probably early 90s. It starts clogging while going over a dusting. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![articzap](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/articzap/32/7361_2.png) [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/18 "2008-12-19T13:38:58Z")
> [@paulysplitx](#): > > I just put some money into my grandpa’s old Ariens he left in the garage when I bought the house. Much like the first one JayS posted. That thing is a beast and built strong unlike all that new crap. Starts up almost every time will 1 pull. I even have an electric start but I have yet needed a reason to use it. > > Classics FTW It didn’t always start with one pull…:eekdance: ---
**Author:** ![Jeller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jeller](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeller)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/19 "2008-12-19T13:44:37Z")
I agree, “they dont make them like they used to”. the old airens and old red toros are tanks. All metal everything, no plastic pulleys and crap like that. 5hp will do most of your needs, but 8hp is what I would buy for the heavier snows. If you need one now, that troy built will probably do the job. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019/20 "2008-12-19T13:47:57Z")
good thread… for now I currently launch out of my garage (left a couple nice stripes). then when I came home, I launched from across the street and made it into my garage. while fun, this will not work as a long term solution. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/which-snow-blower-to-buy/60019.md?page=2)