Nice fight against general winter ...2 winners with a more energetic punchr .: gas . Bought the 518 today...yeah !

Whats the point of plowing that little dust of snow?

What is your rate?

I own both of these. The gas power Toro does a lot better job than the Ego.

Not a tractor

What size plow?

WOW thats quite the set up!

Hi what size enclosed trailer are you hauling it in?

How do you find this setup on hills? My driveway is gravel and very hilly with a steeper incline than most. I don't expect it to be a racecar or anything, I know the limitations, but is it capable? I'd probably need chains on the tires.

I don't understand this setup. what is the point of dropping $45000 for something that has to driven around by $60000. And how can you drive a trailer in over one ft of snow.

Great video, what size pull plow is it? And how many houses does one guy do on average? I really like this set up.

Nice setup👍🏻. Curious if you are running the poly strip as the cutting edge on your daniels pull plow or if you went with metal? Wondering about potential driveway damage. Thx

What’s size trailer did you get for the setup? Love the setup

That's quite and effective setup for residential driveway snow clearing. Do you charge extra for the hand shovelling in front of the garages?

How's this compare to using the ventrac on driveways? A lot better?

Have you guys been using it on driveways too? If so, how does it compare to the kubota?

Set up a little reverse cam to protect yo neck. Nice setup

I'll take gas any day over this overpriced plastic toy.

My gas Toro does the same thing of throwing snow backwards at times. New paddles same thing. I just have to make a few more passes to clear it properly.

This is a cool setup. After the drive is dragged clean, why do you turn off the PTO between snowblowing pushes? Also, if the driver didn't shovel you could do probably 20-30% more driveways. We have people drive separately in cars and trucks doing the shoveling. It can be any car, and can be done before or after the drive is cleared. Saves us a lot of time. We have inverted blowers on tractors and are thinking of switching to this kind of setup due to the faster transport time. But the tractor is a lot faster on the drives when it get there. Each of these would take a 80" tractor inverted blower about 60 seconds. Thank you for sharing how you run this setup. Do you have many breakdowns with the Daniels box?

what plow is that on the back?

I like it! Where did you get the rear blade set-up? Thanks, Gary.

great video however where's the AMBER STROBES,ROCK AMD ROLL MUSIC AND HI VISIBILTY CARHARDT OUTERWEAR. *FIRST VIDEO IVE EVER SEEN OF SNOW REMOVAL WITH NO SAFETY GEAR WHATSOEVER gotta be sure you come home safe to the wife

I think the EGO one can only feed snow up to 5 inches, although they claimed to have 8 inches...

Clean out & service your muffler & you get your power back.

pretty cool

I'm not a Kubota guy, I'm a John Deere Man, BUT I really like your Kubota UTV set-up that's fricking sweet!

That's cute ...lol

You'll never regret having that RTX It's a wonderful machine

The plastic part you talked about that broke is called a scraper blade. They run about $30 at the big box stores. 10 minutes to replace them. But I totally agree with how annoying it is that the blade catches on any segmentation lines that you may have in your driveway or sidewalk. There is a solution though. There are a lot of after-market "skids" that can easily be mounted onto your machine which raise up the front end of the machine just enough so that the blade doesn't nosedive down into every crack it runs over. I own the newer model EGO SNT2025 Auger-Assisted drive. It's the same basic design but the auger is designed to propel the unit forward, giving you at least a small level of relief from having to push the unit. However, this power-assist feature is rendered virtually useless by the design flaw of the scraper blade issue. This is because, in order to engage the auger assist, you need to lift up lightly on the handle grip bar, which engages the auger in greater contact with the pavement. Unfortunately, in doing so, you simultaneously exacerbate the issue with the nose-diving scraper blade. I haven't yet installed any after-market skids on mine, but I've greatly decreased the scraper blade problem by pushing the unit a little more carefully and slower. It's very annoying. I'm gathering this is a pretty common problem though with various single-stage snow blowers, as there are a lot of "skid" solutions available to resolve the issue. Other than that though, the EGO blower is pretty good, and beats the heck out of monkeying with a gas-powered unit, in my opinion.

Nice job awesome machine

Thanks for the video. How does the snowblower do at the end of the driveways where the curb is.? Does it float over it or do you have to lift the blower up and then set it back down at the end? For the heavy snows does it help going through the snow slower so it doesn’t push a pile next to the garage?

Neither one was clearing the driveway at first. I don't see this as a fair comparison at all. I have never seen anyone run snowblowers the way this was done. Who does that stuff while cleaning a driveway. It was clearly a race not a demonstration as to which does the better job. Sorry not a good video for anything.

This is a great looking setup! Thank you for being so thorough and taking the time to make and share this content!

Do you have any experience or preference as to r auger type (steel vs rubber) on stamped concrete or composite decking? I see where the rubber version would be safer, but the steel should not contact at all correct? Reason I lean toward steel is we have a metal roof and snow slides get frozen so the metal auger should chew them better.

Thanks for your review, however you mentioned that the thin little lip behind the auger that scoop/scrapes up the snow, that lip is replaceable from the manufacturer. Remember that you said that the one corner of the lip was broke? Just thought I would mention that to you

Thanks, finally someone that has a straight to the point honest review. That would piss me off if the plastic lip broke off.

Difference is, the toro could do the next 10 driveways on very little gas. How many batteries would the ego need?

Cute...what about normal, 1 ft. to 2 ft. snow...

Nope. When snow gets like this, out comes the two stage snow blower.

I would consider the cab a liability Your better off with a heated seat

It looks to me like the John Deer was the clear winner.

Hello Great Video. We have the exact same snowblower setup. Our gearbox under the RTV that gives power to the snowblower makes a load rattling noise when the engine is at idle and not moving, without the PTO engage. The rattle goes away when you engage the PTO for the snowblower. Does or did your machine make any strange noise like this. We think it is coming from the PTO clutch when it is not engaged. It is quite loud.

So Ego’s Peak Power is dead even with the baby 99cc Toro gas blower. Thank you for saving me from making the mistake of buying a Ego single stage blower as I was looking to replace my 15 year old HS520 Honda that would easily handle that snow. I only needed to replace that because I gas it to my Dad but it still works perfectly. I bought a Honda HS720 instead.

Right on point

I just got my ego... this was a very fair comparison. You both pushed these blowers to their limits! Either way both are better then shoveling

I find I don’t need a pull plow with a snowblower.

How do you find the unit drives through snow that hasn’t been cleared by the city on roads yet? I’m thinking about getting one of these for snow removal this season, and want to be able to drive it from house to house in areas where I have good route density, but don’t want it to be a painstakingly slow experience when I need it to go through uncleared snow on the roads. Any insight is appreciated!

Debating this or a tractor lx2010. Thoughts

Have you had any traction issues on blacktop driveways?