Mar2
Love my toro 1800 Power Curve (38025)
It is pretty well built and really easy to fix.
I’ve had two things fail on me so far. 1) the screws that hold the plate with the rod to control the direction of the snow fell out. I replaced with cotter pins.
Last week my blower blade snapped (my fault. I ran over some asphault rocks that the snow pushed up out of my driveway.) The part to fix the snowblower only cost about $25.00. Plus $12 for an allen wrench type adapter for my socket set. (well, I got 8 sockets for the $12.) I don’t know if I’ll ever use these allen sockets so I’m counting it as the cost of repair. There were 3 philips head screws holding on a plate. Once that was removed I used the allen socket to remove the bar that runs through the blade. pulled out the bar, put in the new blade, tightened the bolt back up put on the plate with 3 screws and I’m now up and running again.
It has been 11 months the last post. The toro 1800 power curve is holding up well. I have not had to do any repairs to it. This has been a very snowy snowy winter and we are over double the average snowfall. There is currently 3 feet of snow on the ground. We have been getting about 6 – 8 inches every week. One issue I have is that The snow is so high now it is hard to move it anywhere because once you get up a wall of snow 3 feet high, it can’t blow the snow much higher so I end up having to blow it in front of me.
It takes me about an hour to do a 60×10′ driveway and a 30×10′ driveway.
I think it is even faster than a regular powered snow blower because you can go at your own pace and maneuver it faster.