Ego missed what MEN need in a SNOWBLOWERl 4K
Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
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This video provides a practical review and comparison of two EGO battery-powered snow blowers (24-inch and 21-inch models), highlighting their features, controls, and performance in wet, heavy snow. It also includes an unexpected demonstration of how to replace a shear pin after hitting debris, showcasing the on-board storage of replacement pins and the ease of repair.
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(10,656 characters)all right let's go find some snow before it melts unreal wet ow you find a rock oh I think I just knocked the chip my tooth out it wouldn't be a dirp monkey video if we didn't break something right get a punch count it out put the one in and we'll test it out in a in a Jar full of [Music] nastiness all right guys well another big company has failed ego has failed to build a snow blower that meets a man's needs the need to come in smelling like gas the need to be pouring gasoline to be checking oil to be troubleshooting sh carburetors they built just a simple plug-and-play snowblower that just goes out and does what a snowblower is is in its name blows snow they've also made it so that not only are we not messing with gas and oil and all of that other crap but they put the tools we need to keep the snowblower running if we do break it right on board and what I mean is today we try to snow blow a big stick and break the snow blower and find that everything we need to get back in action after after we successfully break it is right there on board and I'm going to show you and walk you right through it so what are we waiting for let's check out eagles's brand new snow blowers well some of you guys have had a blessing of a normal winter this is the worst winter we've ever experienced ever and I can't make this up we had our first plowable snow event and it's the middle of February and they are calling for 71° weather I don't know so what is you guys tell me what the weather is like in your neck of the woods yeah we're pulling equipment off cuz 71° was with the last latest forecast in February never heard of it we're going to be testing out the claims of Eagle they've got two snowb blowers one has 60t of throwing distance and operates off from two batteries and the other one is a little bit smaller here comes the other one right now this is the one with 50 ft of throwing distance and 20 4 in so can see them Side by each right there a little bit smaller so the first the bigger one is designed for commercial accounts well technically these are all considered homeowner your commercial is always that tiny one which I don't get yeah that makes no sense he is actually true so this one runs off from two 5 amp or higher batteries and this one runs off from 25 amp or higher batter battery so they share a lot of things in common so as we look at the dashboard of both of these snow blowers and you're wondering which one are you going to pick well let's look at the the tinier one so this is the 24 in with 50 ft of throwing distance and uh let's go let's do the side by each compare and contrast before we get to blowing and see how they actually operate in real life okay so Zach and Frankie and are all wondering what they mean by this you guys tell me the B one has 60 ft of throwing distance and clears up to a 32c car driveway with 8 in of snow what does that mean I got a clue on that one I mean who's got a 32c car driveway who's going to plow their own 32 car driveway if you're owning a 32 car driveway I don't think you're going to be doing it yourself that's got to be a parking lot and then the smaller one has 50 ft of throwing distance self-propelled and clears up to a 24 car driveway with 8 in of snow electronic shoot control extended run time all right well let's go out and check them out so we are going to use the bigger batteries which should not affect the throwing distance all right let's show them how these things operate grab the shoot control I want to see how this works so this one is a manual one does not have the electronic shoot control you push the button in order to adjust it though so that way it's not just flopping around on you so it locks in place manual okay so now the other one has the electronic shoot [Music] control I feel like I'm controlling R2D2 I kind of want it to go beep but this is pretty Flawless too yeah that that's bulletproof for this you need to have the power on not one not Bulletproof by any means if you've ever ran a cable system you know some guys don't want to be messing with tightening up the shoot control is this actually adjusted right is that did the cable get stretched somewhere down in there do you know what I mean I mean some guys if they're going to buy a battery powered snowblower they're not going to want to be messing around with fixing anything they just want something I'm guessing that they just plug two batteries in and then they go out and plow snow okay so heated hand grips that one has heated hand grips both have heated hand grips lights controllers there both have lights turbo mode eco mode forward reverse so here we go green means go button and then everything else locks out oh same thing over here here's your steering control okay and then over here everything is almost identical so the control panels are almost identical in every way shape or form didn't like the batteries in all right so fire up the 24 in let's see how she operates s just give her a go on the controls [Music] all right fire it up let's see how she operates looks like you got looks like you got to push this in right here as your safety cuz got a safety on the on the handle so we have a two stage one and two so this is a definitely a two- stage and let's see how the drive operates do you notice a difference in the response with the drives about the same between okay all right let's go find some snow before it melts unreal unreal I I can't make this witer up we're going to set it up so Zach you're going to be in front and then Frankie will be right behind you doing the path next to you that way we can see both snow blowers blow and snow snow at the same time even though this isn't the best perfect conditions we can at least see the difference in the snow in the in the blowing so now I know Frankie what you're going to want to do you're going to want to aim that shoot straight down the back of Zach's neck and and shove as much snow as you can down him but try to resist try not to do that because that's what I do I'd be like oh my God he's right in front of me I could just blow that right down his neck all right you guys ready 3 2 1 go okay oh angle it up and forward a little bit Frankie put your put your shoot up and forward a little bit Zach is more up and forward there you go just like that go for it now all right let's give her round two on the way back we'll just turn around and roll I got three two one go switch machines that way you guys can kind of do a a compare and contrast on feel as well all right let's do a pass back this way and see how they feel you ready Zach 3 two 1 [Music] go [Applause] [Music] did you guys notice the difference this little one more or less want to spin its Wheels more than anything huh what I noticed is they both seem to be pretty smooth like the augur the throwing the the snow how cuz this is heavy wet and warmer this is like heavy wet snowball fighting snow right weather yeah so when you I mean when you got snow that you can make a good tight snowball yeah yep she wet she wet they were handling it pretty decent I would say h but it would be nice if we had more snow than this to test it out all right Frankie's picked a sludge pile ready when you are Frankie blows it I mean he he throws it yeah and the rocks and everything and you had to stop cuz you weren't going to snow blow that log I'm going go through it eventually all right your turn go pick a different pile well let's just see what's in this one oh you broke the throw pin hey hey you broke the through pin you broke it we got a fixer probably hit when I hit that log Y when you hit that log you broke the through pin right there okay so this is a great thing if you guys aren't aware of it and you having a snow blower snow blower problem it's because they have Shear pens and these are the shear pens right there and those are designed to snap so your snowblower doesn't snap and they actually have xri right on the machine so you're back in business they just need to have like a little tool or an where was that at right right here they got a couple of them so they keep them straight on so over there Zach hit a stick cuz we're doing a lot of tree clearing and trimming if you can't tell so he just pops that in it's just a matter of getting the old one out of the out of the way so we might need to get a punch or something and pound it out get a punch pound it out put the new one in and we'll test it out in a in a Jar full of nastiness okay so what happened it cheered off both ends of the bolt okay so hitting that stick did it so it was just a matter of punching that out yeah just punching it out with like a punch or something hard and then just fitting the new one in and having an allen wrench and Ratchet or whatever all right it wouldn't be a dirt Monkey video if we didn't break something right all right so don't blow the rocks and crap on me cuz that's full of rocks I mean this may not be the prettiest thing we've ever snow blowed before turn that augur not at me turn the augur yep there you go you find a rock oh I think I just knocked the chip my tooth off out that hit me right in the face like three of them what the heck I had to face in the other direction I know I know but it was squirting out squirting out pretty good all right turn the augur let's see if we if we broke another shear bolt no what that all right well they both handled the all right so rocks and dirt and whatnot no problem just no Sticks no sticks but yeah rocks and dirt just don't stand in front of it or have anybody stand in front of it when TR in front of it huh or have a Jeep in front of it cuz that's how you broke the window on your Jeep last that was that was like far away to that rock that was another Eagle it was it was an eagle an eagle broke it so yeah they toss and those eagles they do toss that's the uh video showing the two brand new Eagles in action Side by each the one thing we don't have is a 24 car driveway and a 32c car garage driveway and to be able to clear 8 in of snow to test out the run time for you sorry that we had a Frankie that got a hold of a snow blower well the the fact fact of the matter is we don't have enough snow to do a a snow blowing video with cuz yeah it's just melting this here it's like you sneezing it's gone yeah we had to get out here as soon as we could to I mean there was no wait until tomorrow cuz then we would have even less snow to blow that's the video for today hope you guys enjoyed it if you have hit that thumbs up button and uh we'll catch you guys on another one God bless you guys go get them we'll catch you later have a good one you [Music]
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