How to Buy a Snow Blower What s a Snow Blower?
Snow blowers (or snow throwers) are machines that remove snow from driveways, walkways, roadways, or runways, among other places. They use electricity or fuel to power an impeller that moves the snow away. They are very effective with light, dry snow, but grow less effective with wetter, heavier, warmer snow. How Do Snow Blowers Work? Snow blowers use an engine called a high-speed impeller to move the snow into the machine and force it from the discharge chute, generally located in the center, or to the side and back. You’ll find both small snow blowers, which remove only a few inches of snow in a fairly narrow path, to very large snow blowers that can move up to six feet of snow from a ten foot wide path. Snow blowers come in either one stage or two stage types, and each type works slightly differently. What’s a Single-Stage Snow Blower? A single stage snow blower uses one impeller, which consists of two or more curved plastic paddles that sweep snow toward the center of the machine,
