Saltwater60
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This is wonderful timing for these morons. Big snow, worst winter ever and let’s push to ban gas-powered snowblowers. I see this picking up a lot of support/sarcasm.
There is currently a big push for Hochul to ban gas-powered lawn/yard equipment in her budget, including snowblowers
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I certainly hope so!
The local piece of kotex (democrat and chronicle) just published an opinion piece arguing that snowblowers pollute and therefore must be banned. Who are these idiots? Great timing on the part of the paper's management.
Doubtless, a fat dumb UGLY cat lady proposed this, along with the gas stove bans...........
I drive an unmuffled Ford Bronco as my plow truck...........un licensesd, as it is just a yard plow truck.
Greens are a commie created disease, and should be the first admitted in the new, Trump mental hospital,building push.
I drive an unmuffled Ford Bronco as my plow truck...........un licensesd, as it is just a yard plow truck.
Greens are a commie created disease, and should be the first admitted in the new, Trump mental hospital,building push.
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
I just looked and the electric ones are about $200 more than the gasoline counterpart without the batteries. I looked up the Ego one because they get good reviews. They take 2 7.5 amp hour batteries and they are $450 each.
After tax a electric snowblower will cost you $800-$900 more than a gasoline counterpart without so essentially you can buy a gasoline one 2:1 compared to an electric one they clear a 8 car driveway on one charge. I’m sure that is under optimal conditions with 3-4” of light snow. I figure cut that in half.
Great plan. Batteries will not last 10-15 years like my gasoline snowblower does.
After tax a electric snowblower will cost you $800-$900 more than a gasoline counterpart without so essentially you can buy a gasoline one 2:1 compared to an electric one they clear a 8 car driveway on one charge. I’m sure that is under optimal conditions with 3-4” of light snow. I figure cut that in half.
Great plan. Batteries will not last 10-15 years like my gasoline snowblower does.
Cavalry
.338 Win Mag
I am pretty sure 70dB is not considered dangerous to hearing.
Damages hearing of workers? This is why hearing protection exists and the 90-100 dB a snowblower really is means nothing unless a time weighted average is taken.
Oh really? Show me an electric chainsaw that can run a 24" bar
For someone who snowblows a 120 yard driveway, and in front of my mailbox, and cuts trails in the yard for my puny dog, electric just isnt viable. Its 1.5- 2 hours of constant use. Obviously the ones proposing this have a single car driveway.
Electric snowblowers are giant pieces of shit. They're mostly plastic. They use plastic gears instead of friction discs and plates for their transmissions. It it breaks you need a $400-500 transmission unit instead of replacing a $25 friction disc. So they are 20x more expensive to fix and are more fragile. Go look at the steel and flex on an EGo piece of crap and compare that to a dealer only Ariens or Honda. The units aren't even comparable depite being similar in cost, it's like comparing a super duty F250 to a fiat 500, but they cost the same, lol.
The person who wrote that article is probably one of those pansies who has never touched a wrench in their entire life.
The ego drive vs the ariens drive. Toro, honda etc gas units are similar unless it has a hydrostatic drive, and those are durable as well.
EGo is cheap Chinese shit.
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MikeM
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Poor landscapers, what about runway workers, jackhammer users etc. Guess we should only have silent work zones.
with a politician inside.
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
Same here. My driveway takes about 1.5hrs with a 32" snowblower. No electric piece of trash is going to keep up with that. And I'm willing to bet the idiots proposing this have never touched a shovel. They let apartment management take care of it and complain when there's an inch of snow. As my grandfather would say, "they aren't very useful."
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
Keep in mind only the tool costs the same. When you end up factoring in the batteries for the brand like Ego the 56V 7.5 amp hour batteries are $439/battery. You need two of them. The batteries cost what a 24” Ariens has blower costs. Yikes.
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
My driveway isn’t large but I still don’t want one. I help my neighbors so it ends up being too much. The lady next to me is a single mom with 2-3 back surgeries so I do hers every time. The girl across from me bought the drug addicts house and is redoing it. I don’t want to leave it look like no one’s there and cause a break in so I do there walk and driveway. They have two driveways.
Saltwater60
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I saw this and had to laugh. You can move more using your feet. She’s an idiot.
But think of all the money you'll save on gas!! Lol.
That's what they will tell you anyways. I go through about 2 gallons of gas per winter season. So it will only take 400 years to break even. Seems like a good investment.... if you like to lose money.
I'll keep my Ariens Platinum 24. It's on it's 12th season and runs great. Not a giant cut path, but it has a big as engine on it.
All you need to do is yearly maintenance. Run it out of gas, open the carb plug, change the oil, lube points inside the belly and on the auger shaft, pull wheels and grease the axels, check spark plug, belts, and the friction disc to replace if worn out, check the worm drive lube and fill as needed, adjust scraper bar and skids. Clean the body and thin coat with fluid film. Takes like 90 minutes once a year. Do that stuff and any decent blower should last 30+ years.
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repete
.338 Win Mag
What I see in this a project, removing the gas engine from my snow blower and replacing it with that 2cyl Kubota engine I have out back. That will step things up a notch.
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Hochul's an asshole
Bigfoot
.577 Tyrannosaur.
I don't think the dipshits that come up with this shit have any idea what property maintenance is like. And what it takes to get it done.
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thughes
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JRtraderny
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So what's the chances that we'll be able to elect a state government that has a higher IQ than an amoeba before we all croak ??
I want to laugh about this, I really do. I want to say, the voters get what they vote for.
I can say none of these things. This is just sad, sad and disgusting.
My old house in Tonawanda, I have a driveway that was long enough for at least 6 cars. There was no place to shovel the snow, it had to be blown to the back yard. These fcking people are nothing less than insane
I can say none of these things. This is just sad, sad and disgusting.
My old house in Tonawanda, I have a driveway that was long enough for at least 6 cars. There was no place to shovel the snow, it had to be blown to the back yard. These fcking people are nothing less than insane
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
WoodMaxx SB-84 PTO Snow Blower
Just bought one of these ( $4000) . Was told I should not shovel snow any more because of my shoulder,livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
Viral video shows autonomous snow blower at work clearing driveway in New Jersey
As the snow piled up across New Jersey this weekend, one homeowner decided to let a robot handle the cleanup while he stayed warm inside.
abc7ny.com
Viral video shows autonomous snow blower at work clearing driveway in New Jersey
CHESTER, New Jersey (WABC) -- As the snow piled up across New Jersey this weekend, one homeowner in Morris County decided to let a robot handle the cleanup while he stayed warm inside.
Steal2B
.700 Nitro Express
This "viral video" is a one off, the guy says it took him 30 hours to set up the permiters, he also says it can't handle deep or wet snow so you have to start running it when the snow starts so it doesn't get over whelmed. It can only run 1.5 hours before it needs recharging but it will automatically run again for a second session and then redock. After that, it needs to be restarted manually after recharging to keep clearing. The guy indicates "you just keep it running while it snows." With that design philosophy the rig may not survive one season in Tug Hill or even Watertown.Viral video shows autonomous snow blower at work clearing driveway in New Jersey
As the snow piled up across New Jersey this weekend, one homeowner decided to let a robot handle the cleanup while he stayed warm inside.
Viral video shows autonomous snow blower at work clearing driveway in New Jersey
CHESTER, New Jersey (WABC) -- As the snow piled up across New Jersey this weekend, one homeowner in Morris County decided to let a robot handle the cleanup while he stayed warm inside.
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Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
I will drive to PA and be a bootlegger. Buy ammo, a gas stove, a furnace, and a has snowblower in PA. Who’d have ever thought the later would be illegal in a free country? Then by 2035 I’ll need to buy my cars in PA too. The witch is going to stop selling gas cars by then in this state.
I thought I had my wife on the hook to get out of here, but nope.