Ariens ST28LE Deluxe 2-Stage Snowblower 921022

 (1 customer review)

I ordered mine from homedepot.com for 999 and bought the standard delivery. It was shipped to a local small equipment dealer and was set up, checked and delivered with oil (no gas to speak of) ready to go 6 days after clicking 'order'. Total price 1085 delivered. Since we didn't have any fresh snow I 'had' to try it out on some existing snow along the street since the city didn't plow a very wide swath down our street. It took some "chewing" but it went through it fine. The only thing I see is that the tires came with a very full 20psi. They were way to hard to do anything but spin. I did some reading on some forums and had seen some people recommend lower tire pressures. I experimented with letting the air out to about 10 psi but that seemed a bit stiff still. The newer "rounder" profile of these tires didn't seem like they made much contact with the ground so I continued to lower the pressure until I could see and feel the weight of the machine "sponge" into the tires as I picked up...Read more