Greenworks PRO 80V 20″ Cordless Snow Thrower (Tool Only)

Greenworks PRO 80V 20″ Cordless Snow Thrower (Tool Only) is a cordless snow blower running on a rechargeable battery platform. It belongs to the 80 volt platform. The stock number is 2601302. The cut is 20 inches wide. It is a Greenworks item. Everything on this page is written against stock number 2601302 rather than against the category in general.

Living with a 20 inch single stage snow blower

The pack is the expensive part and the part that ages. Everything else on a cordless machine is simple. Instant starting in deep cold is the advantage owners notice first and value most.

It is a Greenworks item. It is listed under Battery Snow Blowers and Single-Stage Snow Blowers. The cut is 20 inches wide. It belongs to the 80 volt platform. The listed price is $449.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country.

The numbers

The listed price is $449.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. The parts everybody wants in February are the parts that are slowest to arrive in February.

Living with it through a winter

Keep a spare pack warm indoors and swap rather than waiting on a charger in the cold. An unheated shed is fine. A puddle on a garage floor is not. 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. A spare bought before the season is a spare, and a spare bought during one is an emergency.

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 charge cycle noticeably longer than when new
• reduced throw in wet snow at the same setting
• the 20 inch single stage snow blower stopping in deep snow and restarting after a pause
• packs that feel warm long after charging finished

Built for a Canadian season

The only seasonal average worth checking is the one for where you actually live. Calgary, Alberta averages roughly 129 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 129 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. Match the 20 inch single stage snow blower to your season rather than to the country average, which the sizing guide covers properly.

Ordering from us

The listed price is $449.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. Canada wide delivery, with freight free above $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

What can go back, in what condition and at whose cost is 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.

Matching it to your property

Work out the passes before you buy. A driveway divided by the cut width tells you more than any specification sheet. Battery machines have closed most of the capability gap on paved driveways and none of it on gravel.

A machine rated for a given depth in powder will meet its limit far sooner in wet snow. On a gravel drive the paddle picks up stone and throws it, which rules out the whole single stage class.

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.

Reading the listing

The words that matter in this listing are pro, 80v, thrower, tool, only. Each one narrows the fitment. The qualifier at the end of the name is usually the one that decides the fit.

This line is 2601302. 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. Get that right and the rest of the order takes care of itself.

Read next

If this is not quite the 20 inch single stage snow blower, these are the pages that will find the one that is. Read whichever matches the part you are least sure about.

• the petrol range
• the sizing guide
• the maintenance schedule

Parts and long term support

Buying the 20 inch single stage snow blower is the easy half. Being able to fix it in year six is the half that matters. 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. We keep numbers for machines well past the point most retailers stop, because a 20 inch unit that still clears is worth repairing.

Order spares through the parts catalogue, and if you are unsure which number fits, send the model and serial from the plate on the frame through the contact page and we will confirm before you buy.

What a 20 inch cut means on your driveway

Here is the 20 inch cut expressed the only way that matters on a February morning: passes walked and time standing outside.

Add time for the turn at the end of each pass, and add considerably more for the bank the municipal plow leaves across the entrance. 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

Worth knowing before you buy rather than after the first storm.

• It will not match an engine for sustained heavy work, and no honest listing claims otherwise.
• Runtime is finite. Manufacturer figures assume dry powder, and saturated March snow draws two to three times the current.
• Buying into a second battery platform means a second charger and a second set of spares.
• Capacity drops in deep cold, so the pack that lasted in December does less in February.

If one of those rules you out, send the driveway length, the surface and your typical storm depth through the contact page and we will name the 20 inch single stage snow blower that fits instead.

Where the price sits

What it costs, next to what it is competing with on this site.

Stepping down to Greenworks 40V 12″ Cordless Snow Shovel, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included saves $0.00, and stepping up to Snow Joe 48-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Blower Kit | 18-Inch | W/ 2 x 4.0-Ah Batteries + Charger costs a further $9.95. 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

Five seasons of ownership, costed honestly, including the parts nobody mentions at the point of sale.

Buy the consumables in autumn with the 20 inch single stage snow blower. They do not expire and the freight is already paid.

Going one size up, or one size down

Two questions decide a width, and neither is horsepower. Where you store it, and how long the drive is.

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. Going wider is only a saving if you can still turn it comfortably at the end of every pass, which is where a 20 inch machine earns or loses its keep.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

What goes wrong, why, and what to order. In that order, because ordering first is how people end up with three wrong parts.

Parts by number on the parts catalogue, method on the repair guide. In that order saves money.

Your first season with a 20 inch single stage snow blower

What we would do in the first week of ownership, in the order we would do it.

1. Store the 20 inch single stage snow blower somewhere it will not sit in road salt. The pack contacts corrode faster than the frame.
2. Note the pack platform and buy spares on the same one. A second platform means a second charger.
3. Charge both packs fully before the first storm, and store them indoors. Cold packs deliver less and recover slowly.
4. Run one full clear on a light fall to learn the true runtime on your driveway rather than the figure on the box.
5. Keep the second pack on the charger during a clear so you can swap without a wait.

From there it is routine. the maintenance schedule sets the intervals and the buying guide explains the thinking.

Storing a 20 inch single stage snow blower for the summer

Most December failures are made in April.

• Do not leave packs on the charger for months. Charge them, take them off, check them in August.
• Wipe road salt off the contacts before it sits. Corroded terminals are the usual spring surprise.
• Store it upright and covered rather than under a tarp that traps damp.
• Store packs indoors at room temperature and around half charge. A pack left flat in an unheated garage all summer may not recover.

the maintenance schedule covers the monthly checks; the parts catalogue carries the parts you will have identified doing this.

About Greenworks

Brand matters less than specification, but it does decide how easy the machine is to live with in year five. Greenworks machines tend to be specified conservatively, which reads as unexciting on paper and as reliable in February. the sizing guide lists what else sits in this bracket if you would rather not buy on brand.

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