Battery Power for Lawn equipment -- is it time?

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  1. ChapmanF

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    Wow - That is one big motor - compared to our 3yr old 243cc engine on the Craftsman.

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    Even this has no issue plowing through 16" drifts that we get. Our local Ace Hardware has a nice rebuild shop, so that's part of the reason we went with what we got. That, and parts of availability.
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    It turns out that you need 7HP or stronger to have a useful snow blower. My inexpensive 5HP tends to clog up in wet snow.

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    I've only seen one negative review about my 389cc snow blower and that was that the guys liked to chew threw the two shear pins. So I'm wondering if the extra HP might be cause of that orif the guy was really giving her a hard push through some wet, dense snow?
    But I got extra pins so we'll soon find out...looks like snow here next weekend....not sure how much, yet....mountain weather is horribly unpredictable.