True Northerner....boots and sweatpants to snowblow! Cool technology, but I will never give up my Ariens snowblower. Rochester, NY---I am near Lake Ontario, and we get hammered with snow. I usually do my driveway and a couple neighbors multiple times a day in big snowstorms...the end of driveways become walls from plows. As long as I keep it tuned up I have never had an issue.
The only way to go about this with battery powered snow blowers is to get at it when it's less than a foot right away. They're good machines, no doubt from experience, but like any machine there needs to be a plan beforehand with using them. Perfect planning prevents piss poor performance as we used to say in the Marines.
On Long Island we got about 5 inches overnight but it was wet since it rained a bit afterwards then froze, the snow blowers were getting jammed up, biggest problem was the plows kept blocking the driveways with a wall of wet snow that hardened up had to use the narrow garden shovel to break it off in blocks then pick up and toss. Did it three times. Perhaps another inch or so later in the day cleaned up easy. I like the quietness of the electrics don’t care for noisy anything these days. So glad to see the landscapers done for the season - making a racket especially with gas powered blowers and string trimmers.
I was thinking of getting the Ego single stage, since I’m already in their platform, to replace my Toro ccr 3000 until I watched this. That was impressive.
Are the lights always on or is there a manual switch? They aren't needed 90% of the time. I bought the 60v lawn mower and I look forward to replacing my 90's Toro power curve with this battery unit.
Well my other choice is Florida and hurricanes putting up shutters and running generators. Snow won’t blow my roof off so I think I’ll stay and play in the snow
Yes I have friends in Wisconsin so that used to be brutal there in the winters last 10-15 years the winters have been very very timid .. cold but no snow
I've had many toro singles and still do. $799 seems a little steep as im sure it does fine in light fluffy snow but when it comes to wet, heavy snow or the plow piling it at the end of the driveway, for that amount of money id still rather have a 2-stage gas. $500 would be more realistic. Especially since there are far less components in battery powered equipment vs gas.
Not $799 ... Was $599... Now $649 .. link below in description or you can buy bare tool for $499 if you are already in platform .. compared to egos products, toro is much cheaper
Following the storm of MLK Monday 2022 I would completely disagree. Easily dispatched 10-16" of drifted powder on my driveway plus 12-14" of thick wet chunky stuff on my apron from the municipal plow going by. For most people this machine is a better solution than a huge heavy two stage taking up space in their life. The guy at our local landscape equipment store, who has probably made his living off two stage Ariens and Toro, talked me into the electric Toro and even told me he'd buy it back if I didn't like if after the first real snow. This is the right application for the instant torque of electric and I'm remarked at what this little machine can do!
If you need the back and forward when snow blowing, that means this machine meets its limits. Make this machine nothing different than other cheaper ones.
Thanks for the review. I know Toro makes a self-propelled version called the Max Edge I believe. Do you feel that you worked hard not having the propelled version?
I tried this toro in Minnesota and it only sends the snow three feet, poorly. I really wanted it to be good, but there is no way this will handle minnesota winters.
Really ... Maybe try eco- mode .. my side walk only around 80 ft long .. not sure how much your doing and what kind of snow .. this wasn't super wet snow
@@JohnnyMow yea i mean depends on what kind of snow .. ive done around 8" of wet snow and my battery was cooked in about 15 mins .. a 7.5 give ya a extra 10-12 mins in perfect conditions.. goes down from there .. overall its a great blower comes down to if your invested in platform .. having 2,3, or 4 batts ,..i have 7.5 and 6.0 and i do mine and both neibors and 220ft of sidewalk with 4' of snow ..
Stay away from the new EGO, I think they recalled it. Im not sure why but they are not easy to find. i love my rubber paddle one and want the new steel auger but not until I start seeing reviews on it. The new EGO 2 stage looks great though.
I start to think it's not a recall as many have reported seeing them just seating at Lowe's warehouse but Lowe's holding back the unit to get rid off the rubber auger model first (maybe due to large amount of left over inventory from Home Depot?) before selling the new steel auger model or they may get stock with the old model for a long time. Got the 21" EGO steel auger (MFP# 2827386002) and retro fit it to the rubber paddle unit SNT2103. According to EGO it will not fit; however, working great with wet snow and snowplow pile at the end of my corner house of four cars driveway.
@@beezer5623 video on the retro fit unit? I posted few photos on Dec. 22, 2020 at the "Ego Battery Powered Products (Power Beyond Belief!)" group on the Facebook due to RU-vid does not support photo upload feature. takes about 15 min. to switch over the auger, not hard and I was not the first one to do it either. Part link: 2827386002 (igocordless.ca) . They only ship to Canadian location.
@@toolboss8410 it will be a good workout lol. Looked like it still takes quite an effort to push that thing through all that snow. If 80ft of it can be done in 1min then for sure the blower wins
Do you know how this compares to the gas version; power clear721 single stage gas? I live in Montreal canada and am debating these for my small 2 car drive way; slight slope
@@davefulton6201 it was a tough decision, but I ended up going with the Gas model power clear. We haven’t had much snow in Montreal since I assembled it end of December, used it once on 5 CM of snow, it’s a beast! Hopefully I can really test it soon. Where do you live?
@@stevenm2949 I am on the fence but leaning towards the electric. I live in southern Ontario. Avg size driveway (4 car) but live on a main street that gets lots of snow plow traffic. Not sure the electric will handle the snow plow mess at the end of the driveway. The gas looks good too! Hard decision.
@@davefulton6201 if you’re in Toronto, you get so little snow, the electric I think should be fine. Another reason I chose gas is because it has self propel and my driveway has a downwards slope.
