jabbahop
Member
We got our first storm since my new 66" S200 snowblower was delivered. We had about 4 inches of wetter snow yesterday and then another 8 or so lighter snow last night.
I have a C model standard flow Toolcat.
Impressions.
- It is surprisingly quiet to operate and boy is it nice to have a heated cab when all of the snow is blowing around.
- you have quite a bit of control on how close you want to cut. Since we had ice on top of a dirt road, i wanted to keep a little snow on top and that was pretty easy to accomplish though you have to adjust as the grade changes.
- the light snow doesn't blow really far - maybe 10 feet minium and 25 feet max. It is good enough for clearing the road though.
- have to be really careful when blowing near the house/barn because and turning. I was paying attention to not hitting some curb stones and forgot that the funnel was now pointing directly @ the garage door as made the turn. I found it can make a good pile quickly.
- with the 8 inches of light snow (plus a little cutting back of the snow bank) i could go 3-4 mph
- depending on how the wind is blowing and the snow is blowing, you can put a bunch of snow on the windshield very quickly and the wipers struggle to keep up.
- build quality seems very good
- the 66" isn't really wide enough for clearing on sharp corners and i would imaging if it were much deeper than the 8" we had today one would need to back up and attach the edges more directly or risk getting stuck as the snow snow gets under the frame.
overall quite happy not having to fuss with pushing back the large banks of snow.
I have a C model standard flow Toolcat.
Impressions.
- It is surprisingly quiet to operate and boy is it nice to have a heated cab when all of the snow is blowing around.
- you have quite a bit of control on how close you want to cut. Since we had ice on top of a dirt road, i wanted to keep a little snow on top and that was pretty easy to accomplish though you have to adjust as the grade changes.
- the light snow doesn't blow really far - maybe 10 feet minium and 25 feet max. It is good enough for clearing the road though.
- have to be really careful when blowing near the house/barn because and turning. I was paying attention to not hitting some curb stones and forgot that the funnel was now pointing directly @ the garage door as made the turn. I found it can make a good pile quickly.
- with the 8 inches of light snow (plus a little cutting back of the snow bank) i could go 3-4 mph
- depending on how the wind is blowing and the snow is blowing, you can put a bunch of snow on the windshield very quickly and the wipers struggle to keep up.
- build quality seems very good
- the 66" isn't really wide enough for clearing on sharp corners and i would imaging if it were much deeper than the 8" we had today one would need to back up and attach the edges more directly or risk getting stuck as the snow snow gets under the frame.
overall quite happy not having to fuss with pushing back the large banks of snow.
