NorTrac 3-Pt. Snow Blowers

[buckshot721]

Got a northern catalog today and was thumbing through it. Seen there Nortrac blowers are on sale. Now being it is Northern and I see the blowers are made in China, well that just brings up some questions. Has anybody on the forum here own or has used one? Or is this a "You get what you pay for deal"

 

[yelbike]

I didn't like the way the auger was made with the (IMO) narrow 1" ish piece of steel for the spiral. I used a farm king for a number of years and found them robust. I know that the early farm king blowers had a similar design than they went with much wider piece for the spiral. Farm king seems to be a value price as well.
But I don't have hands on experience with nortrac.
I have since gone with a front mounted blower.

 

[Beltman60]

I was looking at them too
wish there was someone here with some info