Ultimate winter driving vehicle??

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Originally Posted by RickM5X3

Agree with everything here except the Honda track drive. Just sold our hs928 track drive b/c it's such a pain to maneuver. No driving pleasure there and replacing it with the wheeled version, traction be damned.

Off topic here, but sorry to hear it didn't work out. At least you went for the Honda wheeled version, so you got the Honda engine whatever the track/wheel configuration. I am a big fan of Honda engineering in mobile power equipment.

I have used a number of wheeled snowblowers, and always felt that the large ones were like horsing around a rototiller, I felt it later in my shoulders. Maybe I need to do more training.

I had a Honda tracked snowblower in northern Alberta years ago, and it was fantastic. A few years back just outside Vancouver (above the snow line) I got a Honda HS724, hydrostatic, tracked drive. I loved it. The tracks provided front/rear balance, and far better traction (unless one puts chains on, and I didn't want chains on my driveway due to the surface finish).

It wasn't the same to turn as a wheeled machine, and I did find there was a knack to it. Pushing down on the handles allowed spot turns as well. I was able to clear in long runs (150' lot frontage, circular driveway spanning all of that), so maybe that helped.