21″ Snow Blower, 212 cc, electric and recoil start

21″ Snow Blower, 212 cc, electric and recoil start is a petrol driven snow blower built for Canadian snowfall. The cut is 21 inches wide. It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. The engine displaces 212 cc. The stock number is ext-8013760004170. Everything on this page is written against stock number ext-8013760004170 rather than against the category in general.

Choosing a 21 inch two stage snow blower for a Canadian driveway

Gas is still the answer on a long drive, a gravel surface or a plow ridge that refreezes. The trade is maintenance. In exchange the 21 inch two stage snow blower does not care how deep the snow is.

The engine displaces 212 cc. The stock number is ext-8013760004170. Starting is electric with a recoil backup. It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. At $849.00 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class.

The numbers

The figure is $849.00, quoted the way every price on this site is quoted, in Canadian dollars. The parts everybody wants in February are the parts that are slowest to arrive in February.

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. A well maintained petrol machine is a fifteen year purchase rather than a five year one.

A machine rated for a given depth in powder will meet its limit far sooner in wet snow. Plow ridge is where shear pins break and where underpowered machines stall.

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

Snow load is regional, and buying to the national average is how people end up undersized. London, Ontario averages roughly 194 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 21 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 14 passes on this 21 inch two stage snow blower, and in a 194 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. That is the standard we buy to, and the sizing guide explains how to run the same calculation for your own city.

Maintenance and storage

Check belt, shear pins and skid shoes each autumn. 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. A spare bought before the season is a spare, and a spare bought during one is an emergency.

Use the clearing tool clipped to the handle. That tool exists because a stored impeller does not care how careful you are. Guidance for powered snow removal in Canada is published by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

• stabilised fuel before the last tank of the season
• an oil change once a season
• a carburettor clean every few years
• belts and shear pins checked each autumn

Buying, shipping and returns

The figure is $849.00, quoted the way every price on this site is quoted, in Canadian dollars. Parcel delivery on small components, free freight once the order passes $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

What can go back, in what condition and at whose cost is on returns and refunds. the warranty policy explains what the manufacturer covers and what counts as a consumable.

We would rather answer a question than process a return, so ask through the contact page. Consumer rights when buying a 21 inch two stage snow blower in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Reading the listing

The words that matter in this listing are electric, recoil, start. Each one narrows the fitment. The qualifier at the end of the name is usually the one that decides the fit.

This line is ext-8013760004170. The 21 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 21 inch two stage snow blower. The 212 cc figure is engine displacement and it should always be read against the clearing width. Get that right and the rest of the order takes care of itself.

Read next

A few places to carry on. They are written for people choosing rather than for search engines, which is why they contradict a few things you will read elsewhere.

• the maintenance schedule
• the sizing guide
• the buying guide

Parts and long term support

Spares, plainly stated, because a machine you cannot repair is a machine you replace. We list wear parts for this 21 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. On a 21 inch machine the scraper and paddle are the parts that decide whether a clean pass stays clean, and both are consumables rather than failures.

Spares live on the parts catalogue, and the contact page is faster than a returns process when you are not certain.

What a 21 inch cut means on your driveway

The honest way to judge a 21 inch machine is to count passes. Pace your own drive, divide by the cut, and the number below is what you get.

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 21 inch two stage snow blower will not do

The limits, before the features. They are shorter and more useful.

• 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 is slower to start and put away than a cordless tool, which matters on a two inch dusting.
• It will not sit on a shelf. Plan a floor space with room to walk around it.
• It cannot be run in an enclosed garage. A petrol engine produces carbon monoxide and that rule has no exceptions.

Those are dealbreakers rather than quibbles. Ask the contact page before ordering if you are unsure.

Where the price sits

Price on its own tells you nothing. Price against the two machines it actually sits between tells you a great deal.

Stepping down to 60V 22″ Snow Thrower, 5.0Ah Battery and Charger Included saves $0.00, and stepping up to Greenworks 48V (24V x 2) 20″ Brushless Snow Thrower, (2) 5.0Ah Batteries & 4A Dual Rapid Charger Included costs a further $0.99. 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. For most buyers the decision comes down to whether a 21 inch two stage snow blower suits the surface they are clearing.

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

The size argument, settled in three lines rather than a specification table. For most buyers the decision comes down to whether a 21 inch two stage snow blower suits the surface they are clearing.

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. Buyers regularly overbuy on width and then store the 21 inch two stage snow blower badly because it no longer fits where they planned.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

Machines in this class fail in a small number of predictable ways. Knowing them turns a shop visit into an afternoon. For most buyers the decision comes down to whether a 21 inch two stage snow blower suits the surface they are clearing.

the parts catalogue carries the parts and the repair guide carries the diagnosis. Use both rather than replacing on a hunch.

Your first season with a 21 inch two stage snow blower

A first season checklist, written from the calls we take in the second week of December.

1. Keep shear pins in the drawer. They are cents each and they fail in the plow ridge, on a Sunday.
2. Mark the edges of the driveway with stakes before the first fall, so you are not guessing where the lawn starts.
3. Note where you will refuel. Never indoors, never while hot.
4. Read the belt routing diagram once now while it is clean and lit, rather than in February with cold hands.
5. Fill with fresh fuel and add stabiliser on day one, not in April. Most no start calls in December trace back to fuel left untreated over summer.

Follow the maintenance schedule once the snow starts, and the buying guide for anything that needs justifying.

Storing a 21 inch two stage snow blower for the summer

Storage is the cheapest maintenance there is, and the most commonly skipped.

• Change the oil at the end of the season rather than the start. Used oil holds acids that sit in the engine all summer.
• Take the weight off the tyres or move it every few weeks so they do not flat spot.
• Leave the fuel valve closed and the plug lead off so nothing turns over by accident.
• 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.

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

What customers ask