No filter replacements yet. The amount of ash that I’m picking up is very minimal. Though I have determined if I don’t vacuum it everyday there is a chance the stove won’t start, until I do. It’s not really a big deal. Takes maybe 5 mins. to vac the burn pot, wire brush it and poke all the holes. I’m not actually vacuuming all the ash…[Read more]

I’m now using my little vac almost daily. I purchased a pellet stove at the auction last spring and switched over from my wood stove.
The pellet stove needs the burn pot cleaned daily, unlike the pellet grill. The Bosch works great for this, though a bent nozzle would make it even better. I use a blower to clean the filter.

Boschmanbrian wrote:

redwood wrote:
The zero turn mower befuddles me. Yes it is cool, but probably with a very limited market. EGO doesn’t have a huge inventory of tools, I would have thought they would concentrate building their product line with items that would have greater mass appeal.

I definitely agree with you on that , the riding m…

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Miamicuse wrote:

redwood wrote:
Their recommendation is to drain it after each use. How stupid is that?

But then again I haven’t owned a chainsaw that doesn’t leak oil no matter what it says on the advertisement.

I have had a lot of chainsaws and none leaked like this one. It is a common defect with the saws, not just me.

The zero turn mower befuddles me. Yes it is cool, but probably with a very limited market. EGO doesn’t have a huge inventory of tools, I would have thought they would concentrate building their product line with items that would have greater mass appeal.

Well for what it’s worth, I can’t believe that EGO will totally drop the 2 stage snow blower. More likely they had to go back to the drawing/engineering board and figure out what went wrong. Then they will have to reboot the manufacturing end. It will probably be another year for all that to shake out.

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So I got a marketing email from EGO today and amongst other things, it showed the 2 stage snowblower. I went on Amazon to see if they had it. No, but they have it from other sellers. I checked the reviews and this one caught my eye.

Congrats Jim. That’s interesting about the timing. The box that I got a few weeks ago also came within a day of exactly a month from order date.

Did you have to ship the plywood back? Congrats, but we need the whole story.

I don’t think that anyone has ever taken a picture of a delivery at my house, but who knows. My ex-wife was missing a package. She still uses my Amazon account and I checked the tracking and indeed it was delivered and there was a picture of it hidden in the bushes.

A lot of issues with the shoulder is just inflammation. While I was recovering from my surgery, I used my left arm a lot more then usual and it became inflamed. At times, it seemed worse then my torn rotator cuff, but it would eventually calm down. Cortisone does work for inflamation.

Sorry, Brian, it’s not all bad. First, I have to believe that they have come a long way, since I had mine. Most are arthroscopic now, I think. Much less invasive. I tore my shoulder 3 years before I had the surgery. Cortisone shots and therapy never really helped. My original doctors never even gave me a MRI. It wasn’t until I switched…[Read more]

I will do everything in my power to avoid another rotator cuff surgery. I was in a sling for 3 mos., before I could even start rehab. It really took a year before I was comfortable with it. To this day, I can still feel a tightness.

I retired because I was burnt out, after covering for my lead guy that missed 2 years, after 3 rotator cuff…[Read more]

Brian, I have bad shoulders too. 40+ years of contracting and doing stupid stuff will give that to you. I had rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder, 18 years ago, before they did that arthroscopic. Neither shoulder is as bad as that one was back then and for the most part, considering, they could be a lot worse. I just have difficulty…[Read more]

I have the single stage EGO snow blower and it works well for what it is intended for. Drier snows of 12″ or less. It will handle a little more then that with a little more effort. Certainly a lot less then a snow shovel.

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You can bet that all the major delivery services carry lot’s of insurance. I can almost guarantee that they won’t go knocking on your neighbor’s doors. They will kick it to the insurance company.

This snow blower is not available through Amazon any longer, except from unauthorized vendors at pretty high prices.

Still hearing big issues with customer service.

I also would open it. What if they put cash in there instead of the Glide.

Unless Bosch is now selling plywood, this mistake must have been by whomever handles the distribution. At least the pipeline is open now with BTP, so there is hope for this gaffe to be fixed at some point.

Whoops.