While looking online for some replacement sheer pins for the snow thrower (broke another one today) I stumbled across the fact that Ariens has a cool new feature on some of their higher-end snow throwers called auto turn. Now, the one I have works just fine but it is definitely an upper-body workout to repeatedly turn it around, especially if one is doing several driveways. It's not uncommon that I'll unzip my jacket or slide the jacket hood back to keep from sweating.
This auto turn thingie allows you to turn the snow thrower around with a light push to the side on the handle with one hand. My first thought was "Wow, I want that!" Of course that and the heated handles (another nice item!) adds about $600 to the price of the snow thrower over the more basic model.
The only possible justification for spending the money is if I can talk DW into doing the driveway which is not likely in this lifetime. But even she thought it would be nice. But since we're probably going to move sometime in the next 5 - 8 years it is probable we'd see limited use of it and if we got really lucky, not at all, meaning no more snow.
So I'm not going to buy it. But that initial emotional reaction to click the "buy now" button took me aback. (BTW, most sites are "sold out".) Anyone else find themselves having to make a conscious effort to resist something like that?
Look at the guy turning it around with one hand about 22 seconds in. Sweet!
Ariens Auto Turn - YouTube
This auto turn thingie allows you to turn the snow thrower around with a light push to the side on the handle with one hand. My first thought was "Wow, I want that!" Of course that and the heated handles (another nice item!) adds about $600 to the price of the snow thrower over the more basic model.
The only possible justification for spending the money is if I can talk DW into doing the driveway which is not likely in this lifetime. But even she thought it would be nice. But since we're probably going to move sometime in the next 5 - 8 years it is probable we'd see limited use of it and if we got really lucky, not at all, meaning no more snow.
So I'm not going to buy it. But that initial emotional reaction to click the "buy now" button took me aback. (BTW, most sites are "sold out".) Anyone else find themselves having to make a conscious effort to resist something like that?
Look at the guy turning it around with one hand about 22 seconds in. Sweet!
Ariens Auto Turn - YouTube