From: KLS 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Snow blower recommendation
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:44:57 GMT

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:44:56 -0800, John Davies
 wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:22:41 -0500, R Kannan
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a two car concrete driveway about 95 ft long and 16 ft wide and leads
>>to a side entrance garage.  It is not very hilly and has a mild slope. I
>>live in SE Michigan where the snow fall can be considered moderate to
>>heavy. I am looking for a good snowblower as my single stage Honda has
>>given up. I have to decide between a two stage Toro 428 XLE and a single
>>stage Honda 520AS. I liked the clean job from my single stage blower but
>>the snowblowing job was quite a chore. I would appreciate any pros & cons
>>between single stage vs two stage models (these two in particular), Any
>>recommendations??
>
>2 stage is always better than single stage as the job gets tougher. 

Yes and no:  2 stage clogs easily in wet heavy snow, whereas some
single stage machines (the Toros and the Hondas) are not fazed much by
it if it's not too deep.  Consider the type of snow you get, too.