Toro 1800 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower

Lindsay ~ 28 November 2006

Shoveling snow out of the driveway may have been okay when you were a kid (though even then you probably hated it), but as you get older and the back is a little less flexible, doing it by hand is a little less enticing (okay, it plain sucks). If you’re willing to invest a couple hundred dollars, you can get an electric snow thrower that takes a lot of the man-power out of the job.

The Toro 1800 12 Amp Electric Curve Snow Thrower, aside from having a name longer than your driveway, has quite a few positive reviews over at Amazon.

According to the product description, it can “clear 4 inches of snow off a 50-by-20-foot driveway in 10 minutes flat.” It looks like you control it a bit like a floor buffer (for those of you without military service who didn’t have to wax the floors in the barracks, I guess you could compare it to a lawn mower too), holding down the handle to get it to go and releasing it to stop. The rotary blades spin and throw snow up to 30 feet. Though it’s doubtlessly not as powerful as a gas-powered model, one review noted that it could handle snow up to 2 feet.

The MSRP is $380 (though Amazon had it for more than $100 off when I looked): Toro 1800 Electric Snow Thrower