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On Feb 8, 5:17 pm, "benick" wrote:
My dad is 70 and he runs a snowblower just fine..It is self propelled and
electric start with a cab over it...He opens the garage dooor and goes at
it.No straining at all..You just walk behind it..LOL...

Have you ever run a snowblower? It certainly is NOT a matter of "just
walk behind it."

Yeah, your method works great for the first pass, but what about when
you reach the end of the driveway?

To turn one around, you need to be able to man-handle 250lbs of dead
weight. Your typical consumer-grade snowblower like any of the MTD and
Airens products have live axles. Both wheels drive equally. They don't
turn for beans.

reply: Sounds like the typical intellectual. They can watch and tell you
what you are doing wrong, and what you SHOULD be doing, but they don't have
the oomph to get out there and do it themselves.

All the "labor saving devices" take work to operate. Mowers, tillers, snow
blowers, you name it. They just don't work on a tether or on a radio
control system. Then there's the cleanup and maintenance.

The purpose of all these "labor saving devices" is not so one can finish
mowing the yard and then spend the rest of the day fishing. It is so that
we can have larger lawns.

Steve