 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All -
We have a large terrace (~40m2) that gets a lot of snow. I've cleared it by hand - shovelling the snow over the edge - a couple of times, but it's hard work, especially when we get a 50cm dump, followed by rain, followed by freezing cold. I could have built a couple of igloos from the blocks I had to cut out and chuck over the railing after that!
Does anyone have any experience with electric snow clearing devices? Hard to tell what's good and what isn't from the online info - e.g. are any electric ones powerful enough? Corded/cordless? 18V/40V, more? Brands to go for/avoid?
I don't necessarily need it to deal with 50cm of refrozen snow - if I could quickly clear the light snow when fresh I think I could avoid the tougher jobs.
TIA
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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1. Snow Joe
2. Ryobi
3. DeWalt
4. Ego
5. PowerSmart
Get a 2-stage or 3-stage blower (not 1).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Excellent, thanks. Corded, cordless or either?
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I read "Blower/Shovels" as Bowels. Sorry 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@turbosmurf, you may find that Whitegold has no experience of any of these brands, nor of snow clearing ...
When I bought our blower in 2006 the general internet view was that electric ones were total rubbish and not worth trying. Buy with a real engine.
We had about 140m2 to clear for parking. I didn't actually do it that often but my observations:
- petrol ones have become massively cheaper. We spent about €1,300 and saw one yesterday in the same shop (Entrepot de Bricolage) with nicer specs (not the same brands) for €289  ok it's 18 years later but still. It looks to me that while there are cheaper brands now the engines come from only one or two mfrs.
- specs: if you aren't going to always be able to get to it while fresh, well (and anyway), I'd want tracks. We ended up fitting chains. Also a nice lamp or two. Electric starting. Heated handles maybe.
- clear while it's fresh and dry. The wetter the snow the more annoying it is (clogging up all the mechanism).
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Dontcha just love a little snowplough
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I have that one from Entrepot. It is pretty feeble but works Ok for a smallish space or on fresh snow. It is currently not running, probably a fairly simple problem (spark plug or something). Anyone that wants it and can come take it away can have it.
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| turbosmurf wrote: |
| Excellent, thanks. Corded, cordless or either? |
A snowblower is just a lawnmower for snow.
A big surface area with big snow needs a big blower.
Cordless will be small and weak.
Probably need at least a 24-inch model (width), and powered by gas (petrol).
Find one with a nice big hole, and your blower job will soon be shooting white stuff up in the air while the neighbors watch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Thanks all, food for thought. Don't really have space for a petrol one - first floor terrace. Maybe I'll have to work on my shovelling technique
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@stevomcd, very often carb clogged with fuel residue.
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You know it makes sense.
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@turbosmurf, they are quite bulky!
Bigger, lighter shovel?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@turbosmurf, seriously, every review I read said the wee electric things were crap.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@turbosmurf, How good a shovel do you have? The Magne brand is what the pisteurs use.
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I first realised the huge physical problem posed by snow watching snowploughs lift it into pick up trucks in Les Saisies - and then being dumped outside town. And, of course, digging my car out and having nowhere to dump the snow without walking over the road and chucking it over a steep bank - couldn't just dump it in front of the neighbouring parked cars.
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| rjs wrote: |
| @turbosmurf, How good a shovel do you have? The Magne brand is what the pisteurs use. |
Ta - will check that out. I broke the metal one we had clearing the previous dump, so am in the market for a new one regardless.
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@turbosmurf, You might find one in BSM but the Point P in Moutiers should stock them.
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