Friday Jan 2nd '26...

Obo said:
I didn't think I'd like the electric chute controls, but I do. If I recall, you said you had to replace yours once.
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Mine is a Honda as well, a 28" with track drive. I like the electric chute control as well. With tracks it steers straight without driver input leaving your hand free to play with the joy stick to easily move the snow to exactly where you want it. I had to replace the relays that control the chuter motors. Those relays and one impeller shaft bearing have been the only repairs since it was purchased new almost 40 years ago. If mine is any indication your will out live you.

I would say enjoy and have fun with it but that would be wishing you more snow, so I will wish you luck with it instead.
 
ibike2havefun said:
Mine, a smaller, humbler machine, came with several spare shear pins. I keep a weather eye on where they are (a completely odd and nonsensical place, but one I can routinely monitor) as I'm certain to need one some day.
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I have spare shear pins on-hand. I have only broken three since I have owned the machine. Once I got to close to a chain-link fence, once I hit the top of a concrete column hidden under the snow, and once I caught a piece of wire under the snow on a neighbour's driveway. None of these can be blamed on the machine. I have never broken a shear pin blowing snow no matter how heavy and no matter how much ice there was. Honda's design makes replacing the shear pin very easy and very fast but it was a stupid number of degrees below zero and the wind was howling so once I got it back to the garage the motivation had waned.
 
Obo said:
I always cut a few paths around the house on the lawn. It allows me to get the genset to the power mast & Generlink hookup if the power goes out, allows access to the 2 basement bedroom windows, allows a deer path so they don't have to wade thru the deep snow, and it allows access to the house for firefighters in the event of an emergency.
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I've recently started doing this, as well.
I've got most of the house covered, as I stage my snowblower behind the house, next to the outside plug. I blow around the deck, the side and front walkways, and the driveway. It's maybe 50' more to snowblow the rest of the way around the house, back to its parking spot.
I used to snowblow a loop around the back yard, when our son's dog was alive, so she could take care of business more easily.
 
Obo said:
I bought a Honda 32" tracked job, and it's now got 40 hours on it.
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One thing I thought that I should mention just in case you haven't gone through every adjustment of your machine. I have seen several of these machines that have significant wear along the bottom edge of the auger housing. This is because they are not delivered to the end user with the auger housing and scraper bar correctly set. There is a specification for the auger height and a specification for the scraper bar. When they are properly set all is good and the auger can never touch the ground. When they are not the bottom of the auger housing scrapes along the ground instead of the scraper bar. Mine was like this when I received it. If you haven't gone through yours and checked everything you might want to have a look at this sooner than later. I have seen a few with significant wear on the bottom of the auger housing because of this, it just isn't designed to be scraping along the ground.
 
Andrew Shadow said:
One thing I thought that I should mention just in case you haven't gone through every adjustment of your machine. I have seen several of these machines that have significant wear along the bottom edge of the auger housing. This is because they are not delivered to the end user with the auger housing and scraper bar correctly set. There is a specification for the auger height and a specification for the scraper bar. When they are properly set all is good and the auger can never touch the ground. When they are not the bottom of the auger housing scrapes along the ground instead of the scraper bar. Mine was like this when I received it. If you haven't gone through yours and checked everything you might want to have a look at this sooner than later. I have seen a few with significant wear on the bottom of the auger housing because of this, it just isn't designed to be scraping along the ground.
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Checked mine. I also added the aftermarket side shoe guides as I wasn't sure I trusted the rear "spring style" OEM ones.

As I recall, min states it is possible for the auger to hit the ground if it's not adjusted properly.
 
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