Cheapest Toro 1800 18-Inch 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower #38025

I live in Truckee, CA, and after the first snow fall this year I decided I'd had it with shoveling. I read the reviews about this snow thower and decided to try it.

Yes, the wheels are rinky-dink. Toro would probably sell a lot more of these if people in Home Depot didn't see the cheap wheels and construe that the rest of the product was of similar quality. But the wheels pretty much become irrelevant when your using it. You have to push the snow thrower though the snow and I don't think bigger heavier wheels would make any difference - especially when you hit the ice under the snow.

I live in a three story house on a hillside. I have decks in the back that I like to keep clear and I like the fact that I can just pick this thing up and carry it through the house to do the decks and then down to the driveway to clear the berm in front of my garage (I have a plowing service for my driveway). Yesterday, I had about a 2-foot berm and the Toro made it disappear quite easily and I very easily trimmed the edge of my parking pad that the plow didn't get. I had about a foot of snow on my upper deck and it tossed the snow a long way, and relatively easily. I was afraid I'd have to toss the snow onto my lower patio and then have to go down there and retoss the same snow, but I was able to blow the snow straight into the direction I was moving - off the side of the deck. It also DOES get right down to the ground (or in this case, deck).

Another reviewer complained about the extension cord getting stiff and hard to handle, so I bought a 50' 14 gauge cord made especially for cold weather (down to -58 degrees F)and it stays as flexible as a normal cord sitting in the sun in the summertime - works great.

A friend has been shoveling snow off his decks and driveway for years, so I took it over to his house and we made quick work of it. He ordered one the same day. I love my new toy. It saves my back and beats the Hell out of shoveling!

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