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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a snowblower (8hp 27", so a modest beast) I blow out around 8 of our neighbors; driveways. I wouldn't lend it out. For many reasons. They are finicky and can get bogged down with too wet of snow and you can scorch the drive belts easily if you overload it. If you walk too fast you can overload the auger. Rocks can get wedged in the auger and you have to get them out carefully. Managing the discharge chute is a continuous process so you don't throw snow onto cars, windows, kids, etc.I've got 50 years of experience doing that.  Most important, the snow at 9am Sunday was something the snowblower could handle. The snow with 4" of sleet mixed in was not blowable. So they missed the window of using the snowblower anyway. [/quote]

This. There is no way I would lend a snowblower to someone who doesn't have a lot of experience using one. Also, they are expensive. A good snowblower can cost several thousand dollars. Do people really loan these kinds of things to people they don't know?

Also, the people who are saying that OP should have said, "no, but I'll use it myself to clear you out," clearly didn't use a snowblower today. My neighbor has one and I (60-year-old woman) was actually faster with my shovel on the front walk (that we had shoveled a few times already) than he was clearing a path down his driveway. The snow was like a brick and the blower was not happy. (I used the heel of my boot to break it up the snow on my walk before shoveling). (He was forced to use it because he's not in shoveling shape, and at 60 years old, I'm sorry to say that I'm not offering to do more shoveling than I have to. But we are friendly and we commiserated with one another.)

We don't have a snowblower, but I grew up in New England and my father ha one. Even with loose, light snow, operating a snowblower properly takes time. It's quite rude to expect someone to do it for you IMO. I imagine OP's DH, who blew out the snow on his own driveway so he could go to work, doesn't really want to come home from work and snowplow the neighbors (who were home all day) in the dark.[/quote]

This. I'm also a 60+ year old woman with mobility issues and I shoveled my sidewalks without help. I would never feel like someone else should do my driveway/sidewalks. [/quote]

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