28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light, Special Edition Red, White, blue, Limited quantities (Available November 14, 2026)

28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light, Special Edition Red, White, blue, Limited quantities (Available November 14, 2026) is a petrol driven snow blower built for Canadian snowfall. The stock number is DUESB928-SE. This listing is the red finish. The engine displaces 252 cc. It is a Ducar item. Use DUESB928-SE when you order and the right item arrives the first time.

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 engine displaces 252 cc. The grips are heated. The stock number is DUESB928-SE. It is listed under Gas Snow Blowers and Two-Stage Snow Blowers. The listed price is $1,625.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country.

The numbers

At $1,625.00 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. Stock moves quickly once the snow starts, which is the only real argument for ordering early.

Built for a Canadian season

Canadian conditions vary enormously, so here is a concrete reference point. Edmonton, Alberta averages roughly 124 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 124 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. It is worth ten minutes with your local figures before ordering, and the buying guide walks through it.

Maintenance and storage

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. Order before the first forecast moves demand and the item is on a shelf rather than on a backorder.

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.

• 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

Which driveways this fits

Two machines with the same engine and different widths are different tools, because the wider one finishes sooner. 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. 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.

Ordering from us

The listed price is $1,625.00 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. Delivery is palletised, on a tail lift truck, with a call ahead to agree a time. 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.

If anything here is unclear the contact page reaches somebody who has taken these machines apart. Consumer rights when buying a 28 inch two stage snow blower in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Reading the listing

The distinguishing terms here are electric, recoil, start, heated, handles, led, light. Left and right are not interchangeable even when the castings appear symmetrical.

This line is DUESB928-SE. 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. The red finish is cosmetic and does not change fitment. Use those figures rather than a description and the fitment is settled.

Read next

Still weighing it up? Start with these. They are short, and they are specific to Canadian conditions.

• the sizing guide
• our reviews
• the petrol range

Parts and long term support

Parts availability is the quietest reason to buy from one retailer over another. 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. The consumables here are cheap; the assemblies are not, which is why identifying the right one matters.

Check the parts catalogue for the part, and use the contact page to confirm fitment against your serial before ordering.

What a 28 inch cut means on your driveway

Width is a time calculation before it is anything else, so here is the arithmetic for a 28 inch cut rather than a vague claim about capability.

Those times assume a steady walking pace in snow this class handles comfortably. Wet snow, a refrozen surface or a plow ridge will add to every figure. 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

Where this 28 inch two stage snow blower runs out. Every machine does, and pretending otherwise costs you a return.

• It is more machine than a short paved city driveway needs, and the storage footprint is the usual regret.
• 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 slower to start and put away than a cordless tool, which matters on a two inch dusting.
• It cannot be run in an enclosed garage. A petrol engine produces carbon monoxide and that rule has no exceptions.

If that describes your situation, this is not your machine. the contact page can narrow it down in one message.

Where the price sits

The only comparison that matters is the one you would really be making in the cart.

Stepping down to 28″ Snow Blower, 252 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light saves $26.00, and stepping up to 30″ Snow Blower, 302 cc, electric and recoil start, heated handles, LED light costs a further $174.00. 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 28 inch two stage snow blower costs to own for five Canadian winters.

Buy the consumables in autumn with the 28 inch two stage snow blower. They do not expire and the freight is already paid.

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.

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. The step either side of 28 inches is usually one pass on a standard driveway, which is a few minutes rather than a transformation.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

Nothing here is exotic. These cover most of what we are called about in January.

Order any of them from the parts catalogue. the repair guide covers the same faults in more detail, with the checks to run first.

Your first season with a 28 inch two stage snow blower

Do these before the snow arrives. Every one of them is harder once it has.

1. Do a dry run on a clear driveway. Learn the chute controls before you need them in a storm at six in the morning.
2. 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.
3. Check the oil before the first pull, then again after the first two hours. New engines settle and the level moves.
4. Read the belt routing diagram once now while it is clean and lit, rather than in February with cold hands.
5. Note where you will refuel. Never indoors, never while hot.

Keep the maintenance schedule open through the winter, and read the buying guide if you want the reasons rather than the list.

Storing a 28 inch two stage snow blower for the summer

How to shut it down for the summer.

• Store it off a concrete floor if you can. Concrete wicks moisture into the underside of the 28 inch two stage snow blower.
• Leave the fuel valve closed and the plug lead off so nothing turns over by accident.
• Take the weight off the tyres or move it every few weeks so they do not flat spot.
• Grease the chute collar and the auger fittings before it sits, not after.

The complete routine lives on the maintenance schedule, with replacement parts listed on the parts catalogue.

Common questions