Guess we lucked out being they were calling for 8-inches of snow, but we only got about 2.5 to 3 inches. At least it gave me a chance to use my new three stage snow blower to see how it worked. It seemed to work pretty good, just had to get used to all the controls.
I had a "track drive" snow blower years ago and I hated it! It did push into the deep snow really well with out slipping, but.... it it shut off for some reason like running out of gas or other problem, you couldn't "free wheel" it back to the house, you actually had to drag it backwards! I think I had the track drive for a year or two before I sold it and swore I'd never get another track drive.
The new snow blower has wheels but it's three stage snow blower. How do they get three stages? The first stage is the augers on the sides (in the front of the snow blower) which push the snow towards the center, the center auger (2ed stage?) which you see in the video cuts through deep snow and pushes it back to the 3rd stage where it gets blown out of the snow blower.
They say with the center auger it doesn't want to "ride up" on big snow or frozen snow like what you get at the end of your driveway when a snowplow goes through.
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