drjeff
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LOVE my cyclone rake too! (I've had the Commander Pro now for 3 years). Makes leaf clean up so much easier, especially when you use the "estate vacuum" attachment for all the planting beds!
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LOVE my cyclone rake too! (I've had the Commander Pro now for 3 years). Makes leaf clean up so much easier, especially when you use the "estate vacuum" attachment for all the planting beds!
hammer
Active member
Just bought it and brought it home today...it's quieter than my old one (which I just managed to start first time this season after about 8 pulls) and there are a few other nice features that my old one doesn't have. Bring on the snow! 
Just bought it and brought it home today...it's quieter than my old one (which I just managed to start first time this season after about 8 pulls) and there are a few other nice features that my old one doesn't have. Bring on the snow!
Great... between you getting a snow blower, the guy who just rode up my street with his snow plow attached and ready to go, and me putting my snow tires on today we'll never get any snow.
Sky
Active member
Just bought it and brought it home today...it's quieter than my old one (which I just managed to start first time this season after about 8 pulls) and there are a few other nice features that my old one doesn't have. Bring on the snow!
Congrats Hammer! I recommend you stock up on a bag of spare shear pins. Nothing ruins a great day of throwing snow 50' than gobbling up an errant door mat. Hey, I give that Ariens credit....it tried like hell to carve it up and spit it out.
When I was out getting the new shear pins...I bought that new door mat too. :>
Enjoy the new Toy!
Trekchick
Active member
Wow, should we have a snowblower picture thread?
I got my babies out and warmed them up. They purred like they were waiting for the attention.
I got my babies out and warmed them up. They purred like they were waiting for the attention.
Warp Daddy
Active member
started my Ariens beast today first pull yee haa ITS ALIVE and ready for tonites snow all 1 inch predicted
hammer
Active member
While making a path in the back yard with my almost new snow blower, I managed to get an unseen dog leash caught in the auger...broke the cable leash and tangled it around the auger. Didn't break a shear bolt, though, and after unwrapping the leash the snow blower worked just fine.
Snow Blower - 1, Dog Leash - 0 :dunce:
Snow Blower - 1, Dog Leash - 0 :dunce:
Sky
Active member
HA!! I had a hose draped from the pool into the woods from the last "pumping" (with all the frickin rain we had this fall). So I had the presence of mind to hunt that down Saturday AM before the dumpage.
We got 12+ south of Worcester. I went NUTS...my driveway, two neighbors, the fire hydrant, the mail boxes...path to the woodpile, circumnavigate the house.
That powdery stuff throws a mile! Nice Nice!
I sucked up a hat or scarf or something that one of my tenants dropped in the driveway one time. It didn't break anything, but it took a LONG time to untangle. I was not too happy about that one...
MR. evil
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Great... between you getting a snow blower, the guy who just rode up my street with his snow plow attached and ready to go, and me putting my snow tires on today we'll never get any snow.
Seeing how I just finished the build on my new bike I have the feeling it's going to be a long and snowy winter.
My new Ariens snow blower I bought last month got a good workout on Sunday! We got over 23inches and some places like the end of the driveway the snow was higher than the intake. No problem though, it blasted through even the high density stuff. Amazing how far this thing throws the snow, a good 25-30 feet. My neighbors liked it too! I ended up doing four of my neighbors driveways.
A couple of the neighbors had only made a few feet headway with their shovels and the look on their faces was priceless when I cleared their driveways in just a few minutes, like a doe in headlights!
Great purchase.
A couple of the neighbors had only made a few feet headway with their shovels and the look on their faces was priceless when I cleared their driveways in just a few minutes, like a doe in headlights!
Great purchase.
ZYDECORICH
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i got an Ariens 624 last year and its great. the only thing that bugs me is that my driveway is on a hill and the dealer said the tires don't need chains and are not meant to be used with them. i was like really? it does slip quite considerably, with the weight (8hp) and becomes an issue. is he full of shit? can i buy them and use them without screwing up the unit and the power drive?
My dealer told me the same thing, actually he said they don't even make chains that will fit the snow blower I bought.
My driveway is a moderate slope and I did notice the tires slipping some but it wasn't too bad.
If you can find chains that fit they shouldn't cause any problems with the drive unit
Trekchick
Active member
This kind of thing happens to me every so often because I do several accounts and I never know what they've left out there. I've become pretty good at getting stuff out of there.
The worse one was.......
When doing one of my business accounts sidewalk two years ago, on a Monday, I got the Sunday paper, complete with the ad inserts, wrapped in a plastic bag. It took me 3 hrs to get that damn thing out of there.
At one point, I actually looked at my spare gas can and thought, "If I had a lighter I could burn the paper out and put the fire out before I do any real damage, couldn't I"
It didn't come down to that, but THAT is the kind of frustration I was dealing with.
ZYDECORICH
Member
i clipped the edge of the tarp covering the wood on this last storm down here, that was fun to untangle. no issue with the ariens once i started it up again. whew!.
Geoff
Well-known member
I once sucked a welcome mat up with a 14 1/2 hp Toro I used to own. I had to disassemble the whole sucker to extract it.
drjeff
Well-known member
I have over the years become much more blatantly obvious about where I put the power cords for some of my outdoor x-mas lights that are near/adjacent to where I usually use the snow blower. Just about found that out the hard way with one of the extension cords that goes across my front yard as I was clearing a path for the oil and propane guys to get to the tank hook ups on my house
