Yesterday the snowblower was delivered. The thing weighted in at 270 pounds
and the truck it came in was a 48 foot trailer. Which cause a slight
problem, because it couldn't make it up our 650 foot drive during our little
ice storm. Solve this problem by asking a neighbor if he would mind bringing
over his four wheeler pickup. Now I was thinking how in the world are we
going to get the thing off the pickup, I knew I couldn't lift 185 pounds. By
the time I walked up the drive, the neighbor had the thing out of the back
of the truck and into the garage, which was no surprise, seeing his brother
picked up my 20 horse tractor out of a ditch my wife landed in last summer.
Now the fun began by ripping off the carton the snowblower came in. First we
had to attach the handle and than put the chute together. Every thing was
going well until my wife and I were trying to line up a couple of holes to
put a pin in. Now this is where things got interesting, I couldn't see the
holes and my wife couldn't line the holes up. You guessed it, she went into
the house and I was to bull headed to do the same. After feeling around and
removing the rod a couple times, I finely got the holes lined up. Just a few
more things to do and the blower would be up and running, but I couldn't
talk my wife into reading the instructions and couldn't figure out how to
connect the cables to the chute. Had to give in and call my son to finish
the job. It just took him a few seconds to connect the cables, and make a
few adjustments to the clutch and my wife was on her way to blow the snow
and ice. This thing is a Ariens 11 horse blower and after hearing my wife go
from the house to the barn with the blower in just a short while I knew I
did some thing right in purchasing the professional blower, for there was no
hebetation going through 8 inches of snow and ice.
RJ
