From: John Davies 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Snow Blower Help
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:05:03 -0700

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:05:12 -0400, Keith Stedman
 wrote:

>I just bought a house in the Washington DC area.  Last year there were
>two or three bad snows.  The worst snow was about 8 inches. The house
>I bought is about 50 feet above the main road.  The driveway does a
>full S curve to get to the house.  If the driveway is snowed in or icy
>I don't think it would be safe to drive to the bottom.  The previous
>owner hired a truck to come in and grade off the snow as necessary.  I
>would rather purchase a snowblower.  My concerns are that the
>snowblower must be able to make it up the hill (self powered).  I also
>want snowblower to be powerful enough to do the job but do not want to
>pay for a capability I don't need.  Any recommendations?  THANKS

Check out these sites for some useful info. I can't make any
recommendations because I am in the same situation as you -  need one
but have zero hands-on experience with them.

http://home.gwi.net/~spectrum/snowbuying.html

http://www.whatsthebest-lawnmower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-lawnmower

John Davies
Spokane WA