80V 20″ Cordless Snow Thrower, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included

80V 20″ Cordless Snow Thrower, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included is a cordless snow blower running on a rechargeable battery platform. It belongs to the 80 volt platform. It is listed under Battery Snow Blowers and Single-Stage Snow Blowers. Pack capacity is 4.0 amp hours. The cut is 20 inches wide. The identifier that matters here is SN80L4101. Machine names change between production years and the number does not.

Where a 20 inch single stage snow blower fits

A cordless machine is quiet enough to clear early without waking the street. Instant starting in deep cold is the advantage owners notice first and value most.

The cut is 20 inches wide. Pack capacity is 4.0 amp hours. It belongs to the 80 volt platform. It is listed under Battery Snow Blowers and Single-Stage Snow Blowers. At $799.99 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class.

Specification

The listed price is $799.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. October is the quiet month for this. February is not, and freight times show it.

What it asks of you each year

The maintenance this asks for is unglamorous and short. Packs indoors, charged at room temperature, and a look at the paddle each autumn. That is genuinely the list.

What kills machines early is never wear. It is untreated fuel over a summer and standing water under a housing, and both are decisions rather than accidents. Storage covers the April routine that prevents both.

Never put a hand into the chute or the auger housing. The impeller stores energy with the engine off, which is why the clearing tool exists and why it should live on the handle.

Choosing this over a wider or narrower machine

Width buys minutes. Every extra inch of cut is one fewer length walked on a morning you would rather be indoors. Battery machines have closed most of the capability gap on paved driveways and none of it on gravel.

Manufacturer depth figures assume dry powder. Saturated snow near zero weighs up to three times as much for the same depth. If any part of the drive is unpaved, the single stage machines are out of the conversation.

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.

Buying, shipping and returns

At $799.99 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. Shipping is calculated at the checkout and disappears entirely over $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

Our terms on returns are plainer than most and they are on returns and refunds. Belts, shear pins, paddles, scraper bars and skid shoes are excluded everywhere. the warranty policy has the detail.

Questions go through the contact page and are answered by a person, not a script. Consumer rights when buying a 20 inch single stage snow blower in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Built for a Canadian season

Snowfall in Canada is not one climate, and a machine that is generous in one city is marginal in another. Montreal, Quebec averages roughly 209 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 20 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 15 passes on this 20 inch single stage snow blower, and in a 209 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. Everything we list is chosen on that basis, and the maintenance schedule is where to start if you want to size against your own local total instead.

Reading the listing

Note the descriptors: 80v, thrower, 0ah, battery, charger, included. They are not decorative. Where a name carries a size, that size is exact rather than nominal.

This line is SN80L4101. The 20 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 20 inch single stage snow blower. The 80 volt figure refers to the platform, not to a household supply. The 4.0 amp hour figure is pack capacity, which is what sets runtime. Use those figures rather than a description and the fitment is settled.

Read next

Worth reading next, depending on what you are still deciding. All three are updated as the range changes rather than left to go stale.

• the two stage range
• our reviews
• the maintenance schedule

Parts and long term support

Service parts and how we hold them. We list wear parts for this 20 inch single stage snow blower by manufacturer stock number rather than by generic description, which means paddles, scraper bars and replacement packs and chargers 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 20 inch single stage snow blower.

You will find the numbers on the parts catalogue. If two look plausible, the contact page settles it in a message.

What a 20 inch cut means on your driveway

A 20 inch clearing width sounds abstract until it is minutes in the cold. These are the minutes.

These are clean pass figures. Nobody clears a driveway without stopping, so the real number is a little higher and the comparison between widths still holds. If your own drive is not on that list, the sizing guide works through the four measurements that settle it.

What this 20 inch single stage snow blower will not do

What this 20 inch single stage snow blower is not for, stated plainly, because the returns we process are almost always a mismatch rather than a fault.

• Runtime is finite. Manufacturer figures assume dry powder, and saturated March snow draws two to three times the current.
• Capacity drops in deep cold, so the pack that lasted in December does less in February.
• It will not match an engine for sustained heavy work, and no honest listing claims otherwise.
• A long rural lane is the wrong job unless you own several packs and are content to swap mid clear.

Match any of those and the answer is a different machine. the contact page is the fastest route to it.

What the 80V 4Ah pack really gives you

The pack, measured rather than advertised. A 80 volt pack rated 4 amp hours holds about 320 watt hours of usable energy. Draw rises steeply with snow density, so the same pack that feels generous in December feels thin in March.

Derate everything above by a fifth for a genuinely cold morning. If that still does not cover your driveway, the parts catalogue has spare packs and the electric range has the alternatives.

Where the price sits

A useful way to read a price is per inch of clearing width. That is the table below.

Stepping down to 60V 20″ Brushless Snow Thrower & 60V 140 MPH, 540 CFM Jet Blower Combo Kit, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included saves $0.00, and stepping up to 60V 22″ Snow Thrower, 5.0Ah Battery and Charger Included costs a further $49.01. 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 20 inch single stage snow blower costs to own for five Canadian winters. Judge a 20 inch single stage snow blower on that rather than on the badge.

We stock every consumable on that list by manufacturer stock number on the parts catalogue.

Going one size up, or one size down

If you are hovering between this and the size either side of it, the trade is the same every time and it is not about power. Anyone shopping for a 20 inch single stage snow blower should weigh that before price.

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. Width is the specification that changes your clearing time most, and it is also the one that decides whether the 20 inch single stage snow blower fits through the gate at 20 inches plus handles.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

Diagnosis before purchase. These are the faults this class actually produces.

Stock numbers are on the parts catalogue. the repair guide is the troubleshooting sequence that goes with this table.

Your first season with a 20 inch single stage snow blower

A short list of things worth doing before the first storm rather than during it.

1. Run one full clear on a light fall to learn the true runtime on your driveway rather than the figure on the box.
2. Note the pack platform and buy spares on the same one. A second platform means a second charger.
3. Set the skid shoes or scraper to the surface before the first use.
4. Do a dry run in daylight to learn the chute controls.
5. Charge both packs fully before the first storm, and store them indoors. Cold packs deliver less and recover slowly.

The rest of the year lives in the maintenance schedule. the buying guide explains why the first week matters this much.

Storing a 20 inch single stage snow blower for the summer

What you do in April determines what happens on the first cold morning.

• Check the paddle and scraper at the end of the season so you order parts in summer rather than in a storm.
• Store it upright and covered rather than under a tarp that traps damp.
• Wipe road salt off the contacts before it sits. Corroded terminals are the usual spring surprise.
• Keep the 20 inch single stage snow blower off a bare concrete floor to limit moisture.

Pair this with the maintenance schedule, and use the parts catalogue to order in summer rather than in a storm.

Common questions

How this 20 inch single stage snow blower differs from the line beside it

What separates this line from the ones beside it: 80 volts, 20 inches of cut, a 4.0 amp hour pack. The 4.0 amp hour figure is runtime and it assumes dry powder. Saturated snow near zero draws two to three times the current, so the honest plan for a long clear is a second pack rather than a longer session on one.

Voltage sets available current rather than headline power, so a 80 volt tool holds its speed deeper into wet snow than a lower platform of the same width. Buy into the platform you already own packs on, because across a decade the packs cost more than the tool did.

At 20 inches this is a specific job rather than a general one. Wider means fewer passes and worse storage. Narrower reaches the steps, the landing and the gap beside the car that a wide machine simply cannot enter.

If you are comparing this against the line next to it, compare on the figures rather than on the image, because the images are close to identical and the tools are not. The safest order note is simply the full title as written above.

Making sure you order the right one

How to confirm you are ordering the exact unit you think you are.

Verify against the plate, not the photograph. the contact page settles anything the plate does not.

The verdict

The honest one line verdict. This is a machine for someone who wants to press a button and start clearing, on a property short enough that runtime is not the deciding factor. Bought for that job it is a good purchase, and bought for a different one it will disappoint you in the first week of January regardless of how well it is built.

We would stand behind it for that use. For anything else, start again at the maintenance schedule.