What you are looking at is a 26 inch two stage snow blower. The detail that follows applies to this 26 inch two stage snow blower and not to the category.
26″ Snow Blower, 212 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light is a petrol driven snow blower built for Canadian snowfall. The stock number is ext-7867319255114. It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. The cut is 26 inches wide. Starting is electric with a recoil backup. We list this as ext-7867319255114 precisely because near identical parts are not interchangeable.
On this page
- Living with a 26 inch two stage snow blower
- Key figures
- Which driveways this fits
- Buying for a Canadian winter
- What it asks of you each year
- Buying, shipping and returns
- Reading the listing
- What else to check
- The autumn order
- How many passes on your driveway
- What it will not do
- Where the price sits
- Five season cost of ownership
- One size up, one size down
- What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it
- Your first season, step by step
- Putting it away for the summer
- Common questions
Living with a 26 inch two stage snow blower
Gas is still the answer on a long drive, a gravel surface or a plow ridge that refreezes. A petrol machine carries its energy as liquid fuel, which is why it holds a sustained load for an hour without fading.
It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. Starting is electric with a recoil backup. The engine displaces 212 cc. The cut is 26 inches wide. The listed price is $1,349.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country.
Key figures
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Stock number | ext-7867319255114 |
| Width | 26 in |
| Engine | 212 cc |
| Stage | Two stage |
| Starting | Electric and recoil |
| Grips | Heated |
| Category | Gas Snow Blowers, Two-Stage Snow Blowers |
| Price | $1,349.00 CAD |
| Ships | Canada wide |
The listed price is $1,349.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. Late summer through October is when choice is widest across the whole catalogue.
Which driveways this fits
Work out the passes before you buy. A driveway divided by the cut width tells you more than any specification sheet. Where runtime has no ceiling, an engine is the only honest answer.
Wet snow is the honest test. Dry powder flatters every machine in the category. Ridge material has been compacted by a plow blade and then refrozen. It behaves nothing like the snow that fell.
If you are choosing between classes rather than sizes, single stage against two stage is the shorter read and what size snow blower you need works through the four measurements that settle it.
Built for a Canadian season
One city, one number, as a sanity check on this 26 inch two stage snow blower. Sudbury, Ontario averages roughly 267 centimetres of snow in a season. Spread across a typical twenty to thirty snowfall events, that is a machine being asked to work most weeks from December through March rather than occasionally.
At 26 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 12 passes on this 26 inch two stage snow blower, and in a 267 centimetre season you would expect to make those passes twenty times or more. That repetition, not any single storm, is what separates equipment that lasts from equipment that does not. The right comparison is your city against this width, and the contact page sets that out.
What it asks of you each year
Change the oil while the engine is warm so it carries the debris out with it. Store it off a bare concrete floor. Concrete wicks moisture and rusts steel from the underside where nobody looks. snow blower storage sets out the April routine in full.
Wear parts are cheap in autumn and slow in January. We hold them on snow blower parts with the manufacturer stock number on every listing, and the maintenance checklist says when to check each one. There is no price advantage in waiting and there is a real availability cost.
The chute rule is the one that matters: engine off, auger stopped, and the clearing tool rather than a hand. Guidance for powered snow removal in Canada is published by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.
- a carburettor clean every few years
- belts and shear pins checked each autumn
- skid shoes set for the surface
- the auger housing kept off a damp floor over summer
Buying, shipping and returns
The listed price is $1,349.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. Palletised freight, tail lift equipped, booked in by the carrier. shipping and delivery has the detail.
returns and refunds sets out the window and who pays freight in which circumstances. Belts, shear pins, paddles, scraper bars and skid shoes are excluded everywhere. the warranty policy has the detail.
The contact page is the fastest route to a straight answer on fitment. Consumer rights when buying a 26 inch two stage snow blower in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.
Reading the listing
This is catalogued as electric, recoil, start, heated, handles, led, light, and every one of those terms is doing work. Position words such as upper, lower, left and right are the ones people skip, and they are the ones that cause returns.
This line is ext-7867319255114. The 26 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 26 inch two stage snow blower. The 212 cc figure is engine displacement and it should always be read against the clearing width. Use those figures rather than a description and the fitment is settled.
Read next
Further reading that actually answers the follow up questions. Between them they answer most of what people ask us before buying.
Parts and long term support
A machine is only as good as the parts you can get for it in February. We list wear parts for this 26 inch two stage snow blower by manufacturer stock number rather than by generic description, which means shear pins, belts, scraper bars, friction rings and carburettor kits can be matched to your exact unit rather than to something that looks similar in a photograph. Expect the first consumable at around season three and the first real part at around season six on a 26 inch two stage snow blower.
Wear parts are listed on the parts catalogue. When the plate is unreadable, photograph what is left of it and send it to the contact page rather than guessing.
What a 26 inch cut means on your driveway
A 26 inch clearing width sounds abstract until it is minutes in the cold. These are the minutes.
| Driveway | Size | Passes at 26 in | Rough time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single car drive | 20 by 10 ft | 5 passes | 3.7 min |
| Standard double drive | 40 by 20 ft | 10 passes | 14.8 min |
| Long or rural drive | 120 by 14 ft | 7 passes | 31.1 min |
Treat the minutes as a floor rather than a promise. Saturated March snow slows every machine in this category, sometimes by half. If your own drive is not on that list, the sizing guide works through the four measurements that settle it.
What this 26 inch two stage snow blower will not do
This is the section we would want to read. What it will not do.
- It is overkill for a deck or a set of steps, where a narrow tool does the job in a third of the time.
- It is heavier to turn at the end of every pass than a single stage machine, and that cost is paid on every clear.
- It will not fit through a standard 36 inch garden gate. Measure the gate and the shed door before the driveway.
- It cannot be run in an enclosed garage. A petrol engine produces carbon monoxide and that rule has no exceptions.
Recognise your property in any of those and stop here. Tell the contact page what you are clearing and we will point you at the right class.
Where the price sits
Shelf position, stated in dollars. These are the two machines a buyer genuinely weighs it against.
| Machine | Price | Clearing width | Cost per inch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26″ Snow Blower, 212 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light | $1,349.00 | 26 in | $51.88 |
| 32″ Motorized brush and 22″ snow blower , 2 in 1, 212 cc | $1,299.00 | 32 in | $40.59 |
| 28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light | $1,599.00 | 28 in | $57.11 |
Stepping down to 32″ Motorized brush and 22″ snow blower , 2 in 1, 212 cc saves $50.00, and stepping up to 28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light costs a further $250.00. Cost per inch is a blunt measure and it ignores drive systems, engine size and build, but it is honest about what the gap between two machines is buying you in raw clearing width. Read it alongside the sizing table above rather than on its own, because a wider machine you cannot store or turn is not a saving.
What it costs to own for five seasons
The sticker price is the smaller half of the question. Here is what this 26 inch two stage snow blower costs to own for five Canadian winters. This is where a 26 inch two stage snow blower either fits your property or clearly does not.
| Item | Cost | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Machine, once | $1,349.00 | Paid today |
| Fuel, per season | about $42.00 | Stabiliser included |
| Oil change, per season | $11.00 | One change, done warm |
| Shear pins, per season | about $9.00 | One or two on a plow ridge |
| Drive belt, twice in five years | $29.00 each | Cheap in October, slow in January |
| Five year total | about $1,775.00 | Purchase plus running |
Nothing on that list is optional. A petrol machine that skips the oil and the stabiliser does not reach five years in good order.
Going one size up, or one size down
Going up or down four inches from 26 changes two things and leaves everything else alone.
| Width | What changes | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| About 22 in | Fewer minutes saved, easier turns, fits more gates and sheds | A short paved drive with limited storage |
| 26 in (this 26 inch two stage snow blower) | The balance point for the driveway sizes above | What most Canadian double drives want |
| About 30 in | Fewer passes on a long drive, heavier to turn, needs the space | Long or rural drives, or repeated deep falls |
Measure the narrowest gate and the shed door before you measure the driveway. A machine that will not reach the back garden is the most common expensive mistake in this category, and it is entirely avoidable with a tape measure. A narrower machine used well beats a wider one you dread getting out.
What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it
Every category has its own short list of failures. This is the one for this class.
| Symptom | Usual cause | What fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| One side of the auger stops | Sheared pin, usually in the plow ridge | A pack of shear pins on the shelf |
| Snow left on a clean pass | Worn scraper bar or misset skid shoes | Scraper bar, then reset the shoes |
| Starts on choke, dies when opened | Blocked idle circuit in the carburettor | A clean, or a carburettor kit |
| Grinding that follows auger speed | Gearbox wear, often after a bolt was fitted in place of a pin | Gearbox inspection before it spreads |
Each fix above maps to a stocked part on the parts catalogue, and the repair guide explains how to confirm the cause first.
Your first season with a 26 inch two stage snow blower
Worth an hour before the first fall. It buys back several.
- Set the skid shoes to the surface. Paved wants them low, gravel wants a quarter inch of clearance under the scraper.
- Do a dry run on a clear driveway. Learn the chute controls before you need them in a storm at six in the morning.
- Check the oil before the first pull, then again after the first two hours. New engines settle and the level moves.
- Note where you will refuel. Never indoors, never while hot.
- Mark the edges of the driveway with stakes before the first fall, so you are not guessing where the lawn starts.
After that first week, the maintenance schedule is the schedule to follow, and the buying guide gives the reasoning behind it.
Storing a 26 inch two stage snow blower for the summer
Putting it away properly takes twenty minutes and saves a service call.
- Store it off a concrete floor if you can. Concrete wicks moisture into the underside of the 26 inch two stage snow blower.
- Take the weight off the tyres or move it every few weeks so they do not flat spot.
- Run the tank dry or fill it and dose with stabiliser. Half a tank of untreated petrol over a Canadian summer is the single most reliable way to guarantee a no start in December.
- Change the oil at the end of the season rather than the start. Used oil holds acids that sit in the engine all summer.
Pair this with the maintenance schedule, and use the parts catalogue to order in summer rather than in a storm.
Common questions
What is excluded from the warranty?
On every badge: belts, shear pins, auger paddles, scraper bars and skid shoes, because they are consumables. Impact damage and damage from untreated fuel are also excluded.
How does it start in deep cold?
Electric start with a recoil backup. Stabilised fuel matters far more than the starter.
Can I run it in a garage?
No. A petrol engine produces carbon monoxide and must never be run in an enclosed space.
Is it heavy to manoeuvre?
It is manageable for one person on a level drive. Weight is the trade you make for capability.
How long should it last?
Fifteen to twenty years when maintained. Untreated fuel and damp storage are what end them early.
Will it take the ridge the plow leaves?
Yes, and it is the main reason to buy this class. Take the ridge in half widths at low ground speed.
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