Truth in advertising?

[JDgreen227]

Back about 1984 I purchased a Toro S-200 single stage snowblower, partly because the local newspaper ads for the machine read:

"Throws over 600 pounds of snow a minute"

"Lightweight, weighs only 35 pounds"

I gave the Toro to my brother in '89 because I replaced it with a 4 horsepower Craftsman single stage, but advertising hype didn't figure into that purchase.

Let's see now...600 pounds of snow a minute is 10 pounds a second...:laughing: I really liked the Toro, but doubt if it ever came close to that figure.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Time really does not exist. It is a human creation within the framework of consenus reality!

Guess maybe the Toro people were in a different dimension! Clever approach actually!

 

[dave1949]

Depends on how you calculate that. If, during any given one second time period, there are ten pounds of snow flying, well ......... :laughing:

 

[aginn]

My opinion about truth in advertising would just get me sued by some big company with high powered lawyers. Yeah, I have been blatantly lied to and screwed over. Trust no longer comes easy for me.

 

[mark02tj]

I gave the Toro to my brother in '89....

Just curious - is your brother still using that S-200? I have one that's still going strong. Not sure what year it is as I bought it used. But, when I was a kid (late '70s, early '80s) I used to work for Toro dealers as a mechanic and I always liked that little 2 cycle engine. Now my preferred snow blower is a little mid-70's model Snapper that uses the same engine. I like the Snapper better than the Toro as it has curved blades rather than the paddles that the Toro uses. At some point I'm probably going to upgrade to one of the later model Toro's that uses the Kawasaki engine.

Even though I have a tractor, I've found that for smaller snows (3" or less) it's quicker and easier to use the little Snapper rather than firing up the JD and waiting for it to warm up.

 

[Looking4new]

My opinion about truth in advertising would just get me sued by some big company with high powered lawyers. Yeah, I have been blatantly lied to and screwed over. Trust no longer comes easy for me.

There is no such thing.

 

[lostcause]

the definition of corporate truth is how large of a lie the lawyers determine they can tell and not to be held financially responsible.

 

[CobyRupert]

http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Icy-Ecosystems/Looking-closer/Snow-and-ice-density

Link says snow density can range from 50-800 kg/ cubic meter , which is 3.1-50 lbs/cubic foot. Let's pick middle of the road "settled snow" at 250kg/m3 (15.6 lbs/cubic ft). If blower is said to throw 10lbs/sec, that means it needs to throw (10/15.6=) .64 cubic ft/sec. If snowblower is 20" (1.66ft) wide, and snow is 6" (.5ft) deep, this means the snowblower needs to move forward 9-1/4 inches per second in 6" of wet settled snow. Does it do that? Continuously? Or maybe it can do that for exactly 1 second before it bogs down?
I'll leave it to others to solve problem from a mechanical horsepower approach.