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This is the first review I have done of any product I have ever purchased on Amazon primarily because I didn't believe I had anything new to offer in a review that others hadn't already said - until now. I believe I have a very useful tip that will make the use of your snow blower very much worth the purchase.
I bought this snow blower in 2003 and it is still going strong today, 1/25/08. I live in Aurora, Colorado and we usually get worse weather out here in the suburbs than does Denver. My neighbor had a gas snow blower and I often saw him working on it or having it worked on. Even when the snow was four feet high, I was still able to blow out my driveway and that of my neighbor (since she is elderly and often very ill). I just lift the little thing up and slowly work my way down to the lower levels of snow.
The greatest struggle I had with the thing was the long extension cord that I needed to do my neighbor's driveway - 100 feet - but I lasted this inconvenience out because the snow blower was so reliable until I read the greatest tip this past summer in Family Handyman (great magazine). Before I would bring the tangled 100ft extension cord into the house and over the next 20 minutes or so try and untangle it even though I had one of those extension cords that is never supposed to get tangled up.
It just so happened I was reading a special hint in the Family Handyman magazine (great magazine) and there was the greatest tip you will ever find to help you with 100 feet of tangled extension cord. You go out and buy a lawn hose house and wrap your extension cord around that - yeah - one of those houses that you wrap your lawn hose around. So when you are finished snow blowing, you just wind the cord up and presto - no tangling! It's super. Just one caveat - at the end where the cord comes out to plug into an outlet, don't leave much more than 10 inches of cord because when you are unwinding your extension cord this flops around and you don't want a lot of extra cord flopping around. Hope this help you. It did me.Get more detail about Toro 1800 18-Inch 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower #38025.
