best blower money could buy
Today (Friday, 6/2) after working out at the PT gym, we did a number of errands, one of which was a visit to a garden-implements store hard by the funky food market.
This is the same store we long ago bought our Honda snowblower and our Honda tiller.
The store has apparently changed hands since then, but they still sell Honda equipment, as well as Husky and Ariens and Gravely.
So they still sell both Ariens and Honda snowblowers. He remarked Honda was the best blower money could buy. That given a choice he’d want the blower we have in our garage, except with the tracs instead of wheels (our has wheels).
“Tell that to my brother and you’ll get your head bit off,” I said.
“Well maybe he has an old Ariens; they were pretty good,” the guy said.
“Could be,” I said. “He has it held together with bobbie-pins and paper-clips and baling twine.”
He suggested I might better hang onto our blower; that a blower mounted on a garden-tractor has to be maneuvered all over, plus you mount a blower on the front and it makes it steer heavy. There also is the difficulty of mounting a blower — the mowing-deck has to be removed, and then the blower mounted and hooked up. My 92-year-old nosy neighbor is complaining about this. The import was the salesman could blow out a driveway faster with a 28-inch walk-behind than 42 inches on a tractor.
So I don’t know. We still have more stores to look; there is a Husky place up the street, plus Cub-Cadet (and Kubota — same dealer), and Lowes and Home-Depot.
Gravely (which he said Ariens is) sells zero-turns in our price-range; John Deere was over-the-top. I want at least 48’-cut; maybe even 54’. I’d rather do zero-turn considering how much trimming I have to do.
Whatever; the salesman said Honda was the best blower money could buy. Take that, bluster-boy. Mano-a-mano.
This is the same store we long ago bought our Honda snowblower and our Honda tiller.
The store has apparently changed hands since then, but they still sell Honda equipment, as well as Husky and Ariens and Gravely.
So they still sell both Ariens and Honda snowblowers. He remarked Honda was the best blower money could buy. That given a choice he’d want the blower we have in our garage, except with the tracs instead of wheels (our has wheels).
“Tell that to my brother and you’ll get your head bit off,” I said.
“Well maybe he has an old Ariens; they were pretty good,” the guy said.
“Could be,” I said. “He has it held together with bobbie-pins and paper-clips and baling twine.”
He suggested I might better hang onto our blower; that a blower mounted on a garden-tractor has to be maneuvered all over, plus you mount a blower on the front and it makes it steer heavy. There also is the difficulty of mounting a blower — the mowing-deck has to be removed, and then the blower mounted and hooked up. My 92-year-old nosy neighbor is complaining about this. The import was the salesman could blow out a driveway faster with a 28-inch walk-behind than 42 inches on a tractor.
So I don’t know. We still have more stores to look; there is a Husky place up the street, plus Cub-Cadet (and Kubota — same dealer), and Lowes and Home-Depot.
Gravely (which he said Ariens is) sells zero-turns in our price-range; John Deere was over-the-top. I want at least 48’-cut; maybe even 54’. I’d rather do zero-turn considering how much trimming I have to do.
Whatever; the salesman said Honda was the best blower money could buy. Take that, bluster-boy. Mano-a-mano.
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