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I wish!
Just about every supplier (of decent products) sold out by about 2nd week of November and all of ours were gone by the 3rd week. Stocks of most are not due in to the UK until after March. No one was ready for what hit us!
The trouble is that most Snow blowers / throwers are produced in either Europe or America. For some reason most of the American stuff struggles to get CE approval for sale in the UK, and all of the European stuff was already "pre-ordered" by countries that have snow every year. You can imagine there response to the UK when they wanted a product that they never really bought in any great quantity and production was already specified for the existing pre-orders! Sorry, Non Left!!!!! So yes we are already taking pre orders ourself for delivery in November ;) lol
Broadcast spreaders are finally back in stock though on the plus side..... now if we only had any grit!!!
We even tried northern tools us website but shipping etc was a nightmare and the uk operation said much the same about ce approval.
Could have a made a killing and saved a lot of work at business parks.
Keep us posted if you do source a commercial grade solution ....
Trevor @ Lawnmower World said:
I'm busy sorting out the UK snow blower/ thrower page of our website which will be updated with the products & prices soon but to give you a sneak peak at whats coming there will be 3 product ranges available to pre-order soon.
The MTD "Troy Bilt" brand single and duel stage machines which will... (UK specs may differ slightly)
The Stiga range of domestic (single stage) and professional (twin s... (UK specs may also differ slightly)
And due to demand Honda have also produced a "track driven" snow blower which will hit the UK soon but I have only just been emailed details of this one and there is no full feature product release as of yet, but its of commercial grade and will probably be the most expensive of all of them! Here is the America range of snow throwers but from what I can gather there will only be 1 model produced for the UK.
Keep an eye on the site as it should be updated soon once the product details are confirmed
Great response Trevor - thanks.
We looked the duel stage products with variable chute position and replacable bottom edge/blade (I think something the domestic don't aways have...
Looking at the Northern Tool US website (and other similar sites) was like being a Kid in a Sweet shop - they have access to some great gear at low prices (if you ignore shiping, duty & vat !), from an amazing range of Vehicle mounted spreaders to snow blades to snow throwers all available for overnight shipment in the US, not forgotting all the landscape/gardening gear.
Trevor @ Lawnmower World said:
I know exactly what you mean! You end up grinning like a Cheshire cat until you work out the logistics of it all!!! I have friends in Canada and the sites they have shown me for reference are amazing (i'll save you heartache and wont post links! I can only dream that our website would ever reach those dizzy hights). We done the same as you and looked at bringing containers of them over to supply the huge demand we were getting but the CE problems and shipping costs made it pointless. I even lost council orders for over 300 snow shovel because stocks everywhere had ran out!
I'm still waiting for official conformation of the specs for the this years UK models and even then, i'll be surprised if they turn up the same we've been told. Its really frustrating that for one reason or another, models that are freely available in Europe and America will not get UK approval.
The Stiga range will also feature attachment snow throwers, snow brushes, blades and more for the front mount range of lawn tractors which do work brilliantly but obviously you would need a stiga for them to be attached to (Stiga Park or Titan). But I think these will be the only attachments we'll be doing in all honesty. Blades for standard rear wheel driven lawn tractors are quite useless unless your removing an inch or so of snow and we're not in to quads and atv's so we'll leave that side of things to the more agricultural sellers.
Gary RK said:
Brigitt,
Your house ? - Is that the Sea or a Lake or just more snow in the background ?
Brigitt Stevenson said:
Absolutely gorgeous Brigitt... snow or no snow! If you ever fancy swapping your view for the back of another semi-detached house and some pink garden accessories i'm sure I could make arrangements!!!
Brigitt Stevenson said: