What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.

Some Guy wrote:
What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.

Home Depot and Lowes sell them here in DE. Would imagine everyone sells
them further north.

Frank wrote:

Some Guy wrote:

What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.


Home Depot and Lowes sell them here in DE. Would imagine everyone sells
them further north.
Hmmm,
Why bother? Global warming. I haven't used mine in years. I just use
leaf blower to clear my drive way, LOL! Sears doesn't have it?
You don't have John Deere dealer around there?
from Calgary

Tony Hwang wrote:

Why bother? Global warming. I haven't used mine in years. I just
use leaf blower to clear my drive way, LOL!

I live in the snow belt of SW-Ontario. We get lake-effect snow in the
winter.

Sears doesn't have it?
You don't have John Deere dealer around there?

I'm looking for a 28" to 36" (wide), 2-stage blower. 7 to 12 hp.

Nobody in Ontario is selling a blower like that for less than $1100.
They aren't selling anything in the $500 to $1100 price range. All
the stuff under $500 are the wimpy single-stage blowers.

A couple years ago I was able to get a 24", 7 (or 9?) hp sears blower
(2-stage) for $800. I should be able to get a 36", 12 hp blower for
that price today...

on 10/27/2007 11:27 AM Some Guy said the following:
What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.


Go to the Sears, Home Depot, and Lowes sites. Go to the 'where to buy'
link. Enter a zip code for Detroit or Port Huron, or any other zip you
may want to visit. They should list a store location near that zip.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Almost everybody. Got my last* one at TSC (Tractor Supply Corp. or
Company). Sears, Lowes, Home Depot, Meijers, Sams, Cosco, etc. all have them
in the $500 to +++ range. And now your Canadian dollar is worth a lot more
in the States!

I moved to Arizona in 2006 after spending 60+ years in the snow belt.
Ah.........

"Some Guy" wrote in message ...
What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.

"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
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Frank wrote:

Some Guy wrote:

What are some names of big-box (and medium-box) stores in Michigan
(Detroit to Port-Huron area) that sell snowblowers?

Here in Ontario, nobody sells snowblowers in the $500 to $1100 price
range (which is a crock) so I'm going to buy one in Michigan. But to
do some comparative shopping either on the web or buy phone I need to
know who sells them.

Please post any responses (don't e-mail me).

Thanks.


Home Depot and Lowes sell them here in DE. Would imagine everyone sells
them further north.
Hmmm,
Why bother? Global warming. I haven't used mine in years. I just use leaf
blower to clear my drive way, LOL! Sears doesn't have it?
You don't have John Deere dealer around there?
from Calgary

Surely you jest. Until 2006 I lived near Lansing, Michigan. Bad winters
are as frequent as good winters there.

Some Guy wrote:
Tony Hwang wrote:


Why bother? Global warming. I haven't used mine in years. I just
use leaf blower to clear my drive way, LOL!


I live in the snow belt of SW-Ontario. We get lake-effect snow in the
winter.


Sears doesn't have it?
You don't have John Deere dealer around there?


I'm looking for a 28" to 36" (wide), 2-stage blower. 7 to 12 hp.

Nobody in Ontario is selling a blower like that for less than $1100.
They aren't selling anything in the $500 to $1100 price range. All
the stuff under $500 are the wimpy single-stage blowers.

A couple years ago I was able to get a 24", 7 (or 9?) hp sears blower
(2-stage) for $800. I should be able to get a 36", 12 hp blower for
that price today...
Hi,
That's why I moved out here from S.S. Marie in 1970.
Tired of shovelling thick wet snow., LOL!
Good luck finding one while exchange rate is favorable.

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:37:54 GMT from Tony Hwang :
That's why I moved out here from S.S. Marie in 1970.

You used to live on a steamship?

:-)


--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

"Some Guy" wrote in message ...
Tony Hwang wrote:

Why bother? Global warming. I haven't used mine in years. I just
use leaf blower to clear my drive way, LOL!

I live in the snow belt of SW-Ontario. We get lake-effect snow in the
winter.

Sears doesn't have it?
You don't have John Deere dealer around there?

I'm looking for a 28" to 36" (wide), 2-stage blower. 7 to 12 hp.

Nobody in Ontario is selling a blower like that for less than $1100.
They aren't selling anything in the $500 to $1100 price range. All
the stuff under $500 are the wimpy single-stage blowers.

A couple years ago I was able to get a 24", 7 (or 9?) hp sears blower
(2-stage) for $800. I should be able to get a 36", 12 hp blower for
that price today...

That fact that you can't find one at $800 is a good indication that a blower
the size you want is gonna cost more. And that's been my experience.
For a blower the size you want, I think $1100 is probably a cheaply made
underpowered machine. What's wrong with a 24" 8hp blower for $800?

"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message
...
"DonC" wrote in message
...
.. And now your Canadian dollar is worth a lot more in the States!


It currently is about a 3.0% difference.

By itself, that's an irrelevant piece of information.

In the last 12 months the Canadian $ is worth about 16% more in the States.

In the last 5 years the change has been a whopping 60%!

In other terms, a snow blower costing $1000-Canadian last year will cost
only $862 this year.

Chas Hurst wrote:

That fact that you can't find one at $800 is a good indication
that a blower the size you want is gonna cost more.

Not when your currency has appreciated by 20% over the same time
frame.

What's wrong with a 24" 8hp blower for $800?

I need another blower at a different location.

Anyone know (or speculate) how a flame thrower would work at clearing
a driveway? I'm half serious about that...

"Some Guy" wrote in message

Anyone know (or speculate) how a flame thrower would work at clearing
a driveway? I'm half serious about that...

Probably not very well and then you have the water to contend with.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Anyone know (or speculate) how a flame thrower would work at
clearing a driveway? I'm half serious about that...

Probably not very well and then you have the water to contend with.

"U.S. troops used flamethrowers on the streets of Washington D.C. to
clear snow (as mentioned in a December 1998 article in San Francisco
Flier), one of several clearance methods used for the surprisingly
large amount of snow that fell before the presidential inauguration of
John F. Kennedy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la5sjVGIdnM


"The cleanup of the Blizzard of 1920 included the bizarre sight of
soldiers from the chemical warfare service of the United States Army
using fuel-spewing flamethrowers to melt snow and ice."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/ny...ty/31snow.html

See also:

http://mirror.linnwood.org/flamethrower/

Probably not very well and then you have the water to contend with.

That's where salt comes in.

"Some Guy" wrote in message ...
Chas Hurst wrote:

That fact that you can't find one at $800 is a good indication
that a blower the size you want is gonna cost more.

Not when your currency has appreciated by 20% over the same time
frame.

What's wrong with a 24" 8hp blower for $800?

I need another blower at a different location.

Do you expect the kind hearted businesses to drop prices because of a
currency adjustment?