Anyone with a lawn tractor or riding mower who lives in a snowy region has likely pondered the notion of attaching a plow or snow blower to it, especially when the snow falls heavy and deep. But for many of us, particularly those ...
Tags: Lawn Tractor, snow blower
With the extreme winter weather including record snowfall amounts in most of the USA this winter, I thought it would be a good idea to post about snow blower maintenance. Usually maintenance is done at the beginning or at the end of your ...
Tags: Snow Blowers, Mid Season Tuneup, maintenance, Tools
The Orillia Hometown store’s mattress department features a 50-unit display, focusing on Sears Canada’s private-label Whole Home label. Martin and Angela Russell, owners of the new Sears Hometown store in Orillia, Ontario, ...
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Sensation Lawn Mowers was a commercial lawnmower brand created by Howard Phelps in 1944. The Sensation Lawn Mower Company was located in Ralston, Nebraska, USA. History Howard Phelps received patent number 2,265,545 on his mowing ...
In 1934, the original Lawn-Boy lawn mower was manufactured by the Evinrude Company, becoming the first one-handed reel power mower introduced to the American public. Evinrude purchased Johnson Motor Wheel Company from a New York stock ...
Types Mowing options range from $100 manual reel mowers to $4,000-plus tractors and zero-turn-radius machines. Here are the types of lawn mowers and tractors to consider. Manual-reel mowers ...
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Briggs & Stratton has announced the recall of 5,400 Ariens 920014 Snow-Throw snow blowers. A carburetor-bowl nut can allow fuel to escape from recalled units, creating a fire hazard. The Ariens 920014 appears in Consumer Reports' snow ...
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TORONTO — Sears Canada continued to lose ground in its fiscal fourth quarter as revenue fell 5.0% and same store-store sales decreased 3.8%. Earnings were flat and continued to be driven by factors other than the basics of being a ...
The Weather Channel is tracking a Nor'easter they've named Winter Storm Nemo, which is poised to become a powerful storm that will likely dump snow on the Northeast this Friday. Forecasters say a clipper from the north is expected to ...
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Trying to remove the piles of snow currently falling on a wide swath of the country can be a frustrating affair. The heavy wet snow can jam even the best snow blower. But don't be tempted to clear a jam with your hands. Doing so is almost ...
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This week's early Nor'easter came just as we were testing this season's snow blowers at our Yonkers headquarters in New York. The latest batch comprises models from Craftsman, GreenWorks, Honda, Husqvarna, and Toro. Some new features, such ...
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A two-stage model that fights you as well as the snow, a sexy but disappointing single-stage model, and a pleasant surprise in a corded-electric snow blower are among initial impressions from our recent testing. The latest batch of snow ...
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The dirty little secret of Black Friday is that many shoppers are out for themselves. And why not take advantage of the lower prices, especially if you have a remodeling project in the works. The home improvement stores are offering deep ...
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If you went shopping for a Toro snow blower last winter,yours was a single-stage model or a significantly larger and more expensive two-stage model with a 28-inch or larger auger.To find a more compact two-stage machine,which adds an ...
Tags: Toro, new twoStage snow blowers, 28inch or larger auger
When you have a snow blower, you should expect some parts to wear out over time, and we encourage you to keep extra belts, shear bolts, and spark plugs on hand for that reason. What we don't expect to see in these machines are parts that ...
Tags: Craftsman Snow Blower, snow blower testing, spark plugs