Raze wrote:I gotta toss my .02 in over the quality of Snapper, my old man has a snow blower w/a 5 hp engine bought new 20 years ago, I change the plug and or oil ever 3-5 years for him when I visit and other than that just fill it up with new gas when needed, sometimes it gets used, sometimes it goes a year or two between runs, has both pull and electric start, thing still runs like a damn top, and beyond a little surface rust on the top where the powder coating has cracked it looks brand new, mind you it went through 6 hard years of Maine winters, followed by 14 or so on and off again Connecticut winters, overall I'd steal that thing from him if I ever moved north and needed a blower
My dad was always a Snapper fan. I think I my lifetime he's gone through three old Snapper riding mowers, and everyone of them has died due to the bodies/frames rusting out, but they all still run like a top.
