the munchkin wrangler.

They call a Northerner that moves to the South and stays a damyankee.
What do they call someone that moves from the South up to the North?

Watch your hands with tthe snowblower. They are always hungry.

Any real Southerner who knows me will readily tell you that I'm not a Southerner.

In fact, when I came to the U.S., my entry port was Boston, and I lived in northern MA and southern NH before moving to the South. If anything, I'm back where I started.

Yeah, I've heard that snow throwers are a leading cause of traumatic amputations. If that auger gets jammed, I'll only be unclogging it with the (handily provided) long-handled tool.

Look on the bright side. When it comes time to clear the masses of fallen undead from your lawn and driveway, you've got just the right tool!

Not true. Bone'll break the shear pins.

Err, so I've heard...

Now that you bought the damn thing, it'll not snow for two months.

Folks have had those snowthrowers rip their fingers off with the engine off. If it gets jammed and you shut it off, the engine may still want to turn the blade a bit if a cylinder is into its power stroke. so you clear the blockage, the blade jumps, and there go a few fingers.

Snowblowers and chain saws are of a piece, they're both designed to rip the crap out of the unwary. Sort of like the PTO on a tractor, I guess.

Think twice, move once. No one wants to learn to pick their nose with their elbow. Have a safe snow chucking season.

Hey Marko-

Couple things:

Get some spare shear bolts & keep 'em on hand- everyone's out of them when it snows. Get REAL shear bolts, & don't let anyone at a hardware store tell you that "these will work just as good", 'cause they won't, & you'll bugger up your auger shaft (& we all know how painful THAT can be).

Turn the gas petcock off & run it 'till it dies when you store the thing, even for a week. That activity will pay for itself by preventing a gummy carb when you least need it.

From Where I Speak:
I'm retired, but work PT in a power equipment (chainsaws, snowblowers, tractors, etc.) place in S. NH.

Good Luck!!

Drat! first try seems to have gotten lost......

Hi Marko,
You might consider selling shares to your neighbors to lower your cash outlay. Or, just make your beer money by competing with the plows. Your advantage: your machine can clear walkways, patios, etc, plus not leaving snowbanks around whatever you clear. Since it probably has no other function besides moving snow, recovering the cost as soon as possible would make sense. There is ALWAYS going to be something you need to acquire for use on the property 8-}

$900 is a real bite to the wallet, that can't be denied. However, My wife and I agreed that $900 was a LOT less expensive than a 4 day trip to the local Cardiac Day Spa (AKA Emergency Room) with a heart attack!
Bring on the snow!

You know what's going to happen next, don't you? In fact it probably has already started since I'm writing this several days after your purchase.

Yeah, snow's done for the season. Count on it. ;-)