28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light

28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light is a petrol driven snow blower built for Canadian snowfall. It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. Starting is electric with a recoil backup. The cut is 28 inches wide. The grips are heated. Everything on this page is written against stock number ext-8013782646858 rather than against the category in general.

Living with a 28 inch two stage snow blower

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 28 inch two stage snow blower does not care how deep the snow is.

The grips are heated. Starting is electric with a recoil backup. The stock number is ext-8013782646858. The engine displaces 252 cc. The listed price is $1,599.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country.

Key figures

At $1,599.00 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. The parts everybody wants in February are the parts that are slowest to arrive in February.

Maintenance and storage

Stabilise the fuel before the last tank of the season. 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.

Clear blockages with the tool, never with a glove, and never with the engine merely idling. 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

Delivery, returns and warranty

The listed price is $1,599.00 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.

What can go back, in what condition and at whose cost is on returns and refunds. Every machine carries its full manufacturer warranty. The exclusions are on the warranty policy.

The contact page is the fastest route to a straight answer on fitment. Consumer rights when buying a 28 inch two stage snow blower in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Built for a Canadian season

A machine is sized by your local season, not by the country. Halifax, Nova Scotia averages roughly 156 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 28 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 11 passes on this 28 inch two stage snow blower, and in a 156 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. Use your own seasonal total as the input. the two stage range explains why that changes the answer.

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.

Manufacturer depth figures assume dry powder. Saturated snow near zero weighs up to three times as much for the same depth. 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.

Reading the listing

The words that matter in this listing are electric, recoil, start, heated, handles, led, light. 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-8013782646858. The 28 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 28 inch two stage snow blower. The 252 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

Related reading, chosen for the question this listing usually raises. They cover the decisions that come before and after this 28 inch two stage snow blower.

• the petrol range
• the parts catalogue
• the contact page

Parts and long term support

The support behind the purchase. We list wear parts for this 28 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. A wear part on a machine at $1,599.00 is typically five to ten per cent of the purchase, which is the arithmetic that decides repair against replacement.

Everything is catalogued on the parts catalogue. Fitment questions go to the contact page and we answer them with the stock number, not a maybe.

What a 28 inch cut means on your driveway

Here is the 28 inch cut expressed the only way that matters on a February morning: passes walked and time standing outside.

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 28 inch two stage snow blower will not do

Every machine has a boundary, and a listing that only lists strengths is not telling you where yours is.

• 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 more machine than a short paved city driveway needs, and the storage footprint is the usual regret.
• 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.

We would rather you read that and walk away. If you do, the contact page will find the alternative.

Where the price sits

The neighbours on the price list, and what the gap between them buys.

Stepping down to 26″ Snow Blower, 212 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light saves $250.00, and stepping up to 28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light, Special Edition Red, White, blue, Limited quantities (Available November 14, 2026) costs a further $26.00. 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

Purchase price gets quoted, running cost rarely does. Both are below, for five seasons. This is where a 28 inch two stage snow blower either fits your property or clearly does not.

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. This is where a 28 inch two stage snow blower either fits your property or clearly does not.

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. As a rule of thumb, every extra four inches of width removes about one pass from a two car driveway and adds meaningfully to weight and storage.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

A short troubleshooting table, written from the calls we take rather than from a manual.

You will find all of them on the parts catalogue. Read the repair guide before ordering if the symptom is ambiguous.

Your first season with a 28 inch two stage snow blower

The setup that decides whether year one is quiet or annoying.

1. Set the skid shoes to the surface. Paved wants them low, gravel wants a quarter inch of clearance under the scraper.
2. Check the oil before the first pull, then again after the first two hours. New engines settle and the level moves.
3. Mark the edges of the driveway with stakes before the first fall, so you are not guessing where the lawn starts.
4. Do a dry run on a clear driveway. Learn the chute controls before you need them in a storm at six in the morning.
5. Keep shear pins in the drawer. They are cents each and they fail in the plow ridge, on a Sunday.

Once the season is running, the maintenance schedule covers what to check monthly, and the buying guide explains why each of these steps matters.

Storing a 28 inch two stage snow blower for the summer

The off season matters more than most owners expect.

• Change the oil at the end of the season rather than the start. Used oil holds acids that sit in the engine all summer.
• Grease the chute collar and the auger fittings before it sits, not after.
• 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.
• Store it off a concrete floor if you can. Concrete wicks moisture into the underside of the 28 inch two stage snow blower.

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

What customers ask