Snow Blowers

Thousands of snowblowers are purchased yearly, and consumers have a variety of priorities about the features they feel they need in a snow-throwing machine. Our website team has completed some research to come up with the popular snowblower features that matter to most consumers. We also describe why they feel this feature was essential to them. If you are looking for a snowblower, add these items to your checklist of features that may be important to you. Price is important, but sometimes forgoing these features does not make sense. You will be using this snowblower for many years, so make sure it is what you want and are comfortable operating it.

SnowBlower Features that Matter

• Airless Tires
• Easy turn controls
• Heated Handgrips
• Electric Starter
• Engine Speed control
• Headlight
• Controls for Chute direction
• Multi-Speed Forward and Reverse
• Single Hand Operation

Airless Tires – more and more companies are offering this feature. No flat tires to repair and soft tires to fill with air.

Easy turn controls allow the operator to steer the machine with a button or lever press. Wresting a heavy machine can be challenging to do in snow conditions.

Heated Hand grips – keep your fingers warm, particularly in extremely cold weather. The fingers, even in heavy-duty gloves, are the first thing to get cold.

Electric Starter – makes it much easier to start the engine, especially when cold, and sometimes challenging to start with a pull chord.

Engine Speed control – adjusting the engine speed is another way of controlling the ground speed and the snow-throwing distance.

Headlight – provides safety at night as well as lights your way along the edge of roads and sidewalks.

Controls for Chute direction – Ensure that the controls for setting the direction in which the snow is thrown are easy to use and easily available to the operator. Some machines will also have controls to adjust the height of the snow-throwing chute.

Multi-Speed Forward and Reverse – multiple speeds in both directions allow you to adjust the speed to coincide with the ground conditions, the density of the snow, etc. High speed for light snow and ground transfer and slow speed for heavy snow clearing make removing the snow much more manageable.

Single Hand Operation – is also useful when you need to steer with one hand and adjust the throttle engine speed or adjust the chute direction simultaneously without stopping forward motion.

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