My new snowblower came in today. Will do a video review next time we get a snow fall but the weather is weird lately and we're not getting much snow. Hoping for a nice good storm again like the last one. Sorry to say. Tried it out to widen the driveway and it works great but with the recent snow melt everything is all ice and crap so it was not really a good test given I had to break up everything first and it was only like a foot or so of snow/ice chunks so not really a good enough test, but it did power through all that no issue. A good test is going to be the snow plow drift.
Also the price just went up by a few hundred on the Greenworks site, I got a good deal on this at 2k. Still on sale though as regular price is 3k. Even gas ones have gone up, looking at around 3k for a comparable Ariens now days. I have a friend looking into getting one but wants to stick to gas so we were looking at the the other day.
The crate alone probably has like $200 of metal in it, I'm surprised it was this overbuilt. The 3 4ah batteries is maybe like $900 of batteries if I were to buy separate. The more I think about it the more I realize this snowblower was a steal at 2k. I'm not too sure how it uses the 3 batteries together, like if it tries to use them all in parallel or just cycles through one at a time. I don't think it puts them in series as it will in fact run with just one battery. I even tried a combination of 2ah batteries and 5ah. It did not run very long with the 2ah ones though. Makes sense to just put all 3 in there anyway but good any combination seems to work fine. If for whatever reason I don't have all 3 charged batteries I can at least put them on the charger and go start a snow blowing job with whatever other battery I might have on hand.
When I tried it with the 3 4ah batteries I played around with it for at least 15 minutes and I didn't lose a single bar so I'm fairly confident this will do the whole driveway in one charge. The key is to keep the batteries indoors though. Thing is swapping batteries out is a 2 second thing anyway so if I had a huge driveway I would just have a rotation going.