Hey guys, I live in west michigan and have the typical 3 car garage very minor decline driveway with sidewalks. I currently use a 22" Snapper I55224 2 stage, it has a Tecumseh 5.5hp and I keep it going... it's nothing special it's not fast it doesn't have a lot of throw it's not particularly great at anything.
So anyway, I decided I wanted something more powerful with a wider mouth and nothing could be worse than the 20yr old Snapper... therefore I went and picked up a ST230P it was between that and an Ariens 28 SHO but due to dealer closing times and was going to sell the snapper to a friend before a storm etc I ended up with the husky.
I got home with the husky and had maybe 2-3" of snow but excited to try it out, first I set the scraper bar to 1/8", ensured the tires were both at 16psi, got familiar with the machine and went on my way to see how AWESOME my new BEAST was... immediately I noticed this thing had NO traction! While the snapper has this problem SOMETIMES it's also much lighter and easier to wrestle when it does occur, however the husky was just terrible... not to mention the cut seemed higher than the snapper and it wasn't saving me any time due to all the tire spinning... also there must have been a cable adjustment or friction disc problem because 1 out of 10 times i'd pull the go lever it wouldn't do anything.
At any rate, thinking maybe the surface was the problem I went and grabbed the ole snapper and finished the job... no traction problems and was a much better experience, I returned the husky and explained the above to them, they wanted to fix the traction cable issue etc I said even when it works it's still a piece of crap so I don't want it.
Now my question is if I go buy a 28 SHO am I going to be in any way similarly disappointed? Why did my lighter seemingly much less valuable and quality snapper do so much better?!
So anyway, I decided I wanted something more powerful with a wider mouth and nothing could be worse than the 20yr old Snapper... therefore I went and picked up a ST230P it was between that and an Ariens 28 SHO but due to dealer closing times and was going to sell the snapper to a friend before a storm etc I ended up with the husky.
I got home with the husky and had maybe 2-3" of snow but excited to try it out, first I set the scraper bar to 1/8", ensured the tires were both at 16psi, got familiar with the machine and went on my way to see how AWESOME my new BEAST was... immediately I noticed this thing had NO traction! While the snapper has this problem SOMETIMES it's also much lighter and easier to wrestle when it does occur, however the husky was just terrible... not to mention the cut seemed higher than the snapper and it wasn't saving me any time due to all the tire spinning... also there must have been a cable adjustment or friction disc problem because 1 out of 10 times i'd pull the go lever it wouldn't do anything.
At any rate, thinking maybe the surface was the problem I went and grabbed the ole snapper and finished the job... no traction problems and was a much better experience, I returned the husky and explained the above to them, they wanted to fix the traction cable issue etc I said even when it works it's still a piece of crap so I don't want it.
Now my question is if I go buy a 28 SHO am I going to be in any way similarly disappointed? Why did my lighter seemingly much less valuable and quality snapper do so much better?!