Toro 1800 18-Inch 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower #38025
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Toro 1800 18-Inch 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower #38025
Customer Review: 5 years going strong
Summary: 5 Stars
My toro snow thrower is now five years old and still works great. It is exactly what I need for the type of snowfall we have in southern New England. Light enough to lift, powerful enough to throw snow 30 feet. I have a 100 foot cord on a wonder winder and I can tear through my 60 foot long driveway and large parking area in 30 minutes or less. I almost jog up and down the long runs blowing the snow away.
The one thing to remember is that since this is NOT a big gas machine you need to pick your battles. If I expect more than 5 or 6 inches of snow then I clear my drive when it gets to be 3 inches or so. then I clear it again later when the snow is done.
It is far superior in overall work, maintenance, and hassle of what my neighbors go through with their gas machines, not even considering the neighbor who had his snow machine transmission sieze up -- the Toro doesn't even have a transmission!
This machine should win a prize.
Customer Review: A Great Little Machine!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased the Toro 1800 Snow Thrower on February 11, 2009. This is my 2nd. year of using this Excellent piece of equiptment. It will throw snow well over 16 inches deep, as I did only today! I have never had any problems with it at all. I told my Son-In-Law about how excellent a job it does for me. He purchased one also from Amazon.Com recently. He was surprised, did His whole drive with it. I cannot say enough about how well it handles snow. Excellent Product!!!!!!Customer Review: A Great Tool for the Money!
Summary: 5 Stars
I live on the edge of the snowbelt in Northeastern Ohio. After shoveling out my driveway several times last Easter (!), I vowed to get a snowblower. After reading the reviews on Amazon, I bought a Toro ... and I love it!
We had a New Years Day snow storm that dropped somewhere between a foot to a foot-and-a-half of snow (with even bigger drifts in the wind). My 12-year-old son and I cleaned our driveway TWICE in a few hours ... as well as our back deck (try THAT with one of those big gas-powered monsters!).
We then tossed the Toro in the back of our van, drove over to my mom's house and cleaned out her driveway and sidewalk.
My back never would have gotten through that snow with just a shovel.
No tool is perfect, and one does have to deal with the electric cord with this Toro, but personally, I'd rather deal with a power cord than with gas and oil and everything else that a bigger machine entails.
Here's what I like about the Toro:
1. COMPACT SIZE. With two kids' sports equipment, two cars and a work bench, there's not much room left in our garage during the winter. The Toro smaller size fits in my garage quite nicely.
2. EASE OF USE. My 12-year-old son loves to use it. He has trouble starting our gas-powered lawn mower, but no problems with this baby!
3. WELL MADE. My 12-year-old son loves to use it ... and it still works! ;-)
4. LIGHTWEIGHT. It's light enough to carry up the steps to blow the snow off my back deck. It fits in the back of my van (see above).
5. POWERFUL FOR THE SIZE. For the New Year's storm, we had that beautiful slushy-freezing-wet snow that seems to prevalent here in Northeast Ohio (and did I mention it is HEAVY?!?). The Toro chewed right through a over a foot of the stuff with now problem. (The chute clogged once or twice, but that's gonna happen with this wet snow in any machine).
If you're looking for an affordable, easy to use snow thrower, I would highly recommend the Toro 1800.
UPDATE 3/2008
We just got through a weekend of the heaviest snowfalls on record here in Northeast Ohio ... 36 hours straight of snowfall, and piles of snow 2' - 3' feet deep in my driveway. Insane levels of snow ... deeper in my mother's driveway, which I also had to shovel. This snow was the heavy, wind-packed stuff, and I'm pleased to say that the Toro 1800 continues to perform like a champ.
(Hint: I found that taking the electrical cord inside to keep it warm made in more manageable for the multiple trips outside to plow the driveway.)
Saturday morning my kids were chomping at the bit to get outside, so I let them use the Toro 1800 while my wife and I stayed warm inside (hooray!). We took turns using the Toro several more times throughout the weekend, and it really handled the heavy stuff quite well.
In my mom's driveway, the snow was actually DEEPER than the top of the Toro's chute! I thought for sure I'd be shoveling by hand, but the Toro just chomped through the piles of snow. Sure I worked up a sweat pushing the Toro into the piles of snow, but it was nowhere near the exertion of shoveling that much snow by hand.
This snow fell so fast and hard that it gave many people who owned BIG snowblowers a run for their money ...
The Toro 1800 is amazing! I'm really glad I bought it ... in just few months it's already paid for itself in the time I've saved shoveling driveways.
Customer Review: A True Mighty Mite
Summary: 5 Stars
I hemmed and hawed for over a year on this product before relenting to myself this past fall and ordering one. All I can say is that I should have placed the order over a year ago. WOW what a powerful machine. I just cleared 14 inches this past weekend from the "Blizzard of 2005" snow. It ate it up with no problem. I was done before most of my neighbors lugged out their beheamoths and got them started. I live in Northern New Jersey, so this machine can clearly "cut it" for the kind of snow we normally get. It being electric, the "cord management" can be a bit tricky, but well worth the minor aggravation. I like the fact that since it's electric, I can leave it in the house by the back door if I know it's going to snow overnight. I literally plugged it in and went out the back door, down the steps and onto the driveway. Fabulous machine!Customer Review: A Very powerful snow blower
Summary: 5 Stars
Living in New York city, it is a tough job to clear out of a snow storm,
you getyour car snowed in your back yard ,its three to five days wait to get out , unless you have a TORO Electric snow blower .
I am proud to say I bought at Amazon.com this Toro electric snow blower and it does the job it has a powerful bite , it cleared my 65 ft driveway in 1/2 hr
it is reliable and worth the money, I do suggest , buy a 100 ft extention cord rated for 15 amps , see Amazon accesories for blower , it needs the rated amount of amps to perform properly , the advertized 12/3 Cooper outdoor wire gives a good source of reliable power .
Also , if the blade stops spinning with the motor running , take off the right side cover and tighten the nut, its very user friendly to fix.
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