Husqvarna 1827EXLT 27-Inch 414cc SnowKing Gas Powered Two Stage Snow Thrower With Electric Start, Power Steering & Trac Hydro Drive

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Product Feature

• Convenient trigger control power steering allows superior maneuverability in adverse conditions.
• Connect to a power outlet and start the engine by pressing a button, ensures that you'll never have to worry about a dead battery.
• Adustable drift cutters direct deep snow into the auger housing for clearing.
• Trac drive provides better traction with a unique tread pattern to reduce rolling vibrations.
• A heavy-duty hydrostatic transmission provides the power to get through deeper snow drifts.

Product Description

The Husqvarna 1827EXLT is equipped with a 18 gross torque SnowKing engine, and this two-stage snow thrower has the capacity to clear 27-inch wide paths and 23-inch high snow depths. An efficient two-stage auger/impellor system provides first class clearing and ejection. This unit features trigger controlled power steering for easy turning, and single hand control allows operators to adjust chute controls while wheels and auger are engaged. A push button electric starter that works off a power outlet means that you'll never have to worry about a dead battery and allows for effortless starting in cold conditions. In addition, hand warmers ensure a comfortable experience and the LED headlight makes operation easy in low light conditions. This high-end model includes drifoot cutters, weight bar, and rolls on Tracs.

Husqvarna 1827EXLT 27-Inch 414cc SnowKing Gas Powered Two Stage Snow Thrower With Electric Start, Power Steering & Trac Hydro Drive Review

The reason for my ordering this blower was the failure of an old (20 year old) Craftsman rider/blower combo. It was 42 inches wide and a single stage blower. It worked great as long as I kept the rpm up and the belt was intact. The primary failure mode was bogging it down, clogging the chute and/or breaking one of the blower belts. In a word it was great in normal powdery snow and awful in heavy wet snow. It made me bleed and swear on a regular basis, as I needed to regularly unmount the blower from mower and replace/adjust belts. A 14 inch wet snow made me decide that enough was enough and it was time for a heavy duty new two stage blower. I have a new ZTR mower so a separate blower was desirable. I have a garage that is six cars wide and two cars deep and I have a 20 by 100 foot drive leading up to it. All total around 6,000 square feet of space needing to be cleared and a lot of area that requires throwing the snow a total of 75 feet in one or more passes.

First off Amazon freight delivery: This was the first time I had a large item delivered by Amazon. And when I say large, no kidding it is large and heavy. The crated blower is around 450 lbs. and includes a wooden crate inside a heavy cardboard cover. Amazon was awesome. Ordered Tuesday delivered Friday. A local trucking agency called in advance and scheduled a time window and then agreed to call me 30 min in advance. The two guys delivering the thing worked their butts off and delivered the crate/box right into my garage. I couldn't have asked for more.

Assembly was fairly modest but the manual, frankly, is pretty bad. I'm a mechanical engineer and very technically adept so I was able to figure it out. But it is a shame that Husq couldn't do a better job of describing what and where on this beautiful machine. A picture would tell a thousand words and they didn't use a single one. Also, there have been some revisions subsequent to the writing of the manual and while they are minor --they are glaring. Obviously, Husq doesn't validate their manuals using any sort of user study. Look at what needs to move and where the handles that move those things need to connect and you'll figure it out. It took me about an hour and a half to uncrate it and assemble the things removed for shipping. It is really heavy and difficult to get off the crate by yourself. Also, I found two loose parts and a disconnected hand heater wire while looking over the completed assembly. Be sure you give it the once over before taking it for a spin.

Startup, was easy. I used the electric starter for the first start but don't know if I ever will again. Believe it or not the pull starter is quite easy to use even for this beast of an engine. I've found that subsequent starts are always one or two pulls max. Even cold, it starts easily and great. I checked the oil and it was full of oil and all was good. The gas shutoff valve was "stuck" and it took a lot of torque to turn it on.... I was afraid I might break it, but in the end it opened and worked fine.
Ok, let's blow snow. I started the engine, turned off the choke and got ready to drive the thing out of my garage. The drive seemed jerky and intermittent. I drove it around and was quite confused by my inability to control the drive system well. It blew snow like a beast, but the drive system was flakey.

So back into the garage. I read the troubleshooting info and determined that it was likely that the belt (dirty word) for the hydrodrive was slipping and needed adjustment. Fortunately, the adjustment is a simple task of hooking the spring in the linkage on a different (tighter) hole in the drive activation rod. All external and in clear view, no tools required. It would be nice if there was some way to quantitatively adjust this linkage. But tightening it until it "works" is the only way it seems. Once tightened, all is good.

Back at the snow: This thing is unbelievable. It will eat up and blow anything snow or ice related. It will drive anywhere with the track drive. The only time the track drive slipped was when I dug the front edge of the blower into the dirt that was still soft under the snow. Even then it made progress in throwing dirt sod, etc.
I drove it repeatedly into really, really, wet, deep, heavy, compacted snow - in the rain. And it throws it without even slowing down. This wet stuff was on the side of my driveway previously compacted and 26 inches deep and being rained on and it cleared it to the grass with no issue. None. I ran it across the slush on my driveway and couldn't clog it up. It was able to throw anything I could drive it through without any clogging or bogging.

The drive system is not intuitive, and it takes some getting used to but it works quite nicely once you get your brain in sync with the controls. It is much easier to do a left hand j-hook turn than a right hand j-hook turn because the left hand drive control "latches" the blower drive so you can control the discharge chute with your right hand. This allows you to brake the left track and j-turn to the left easily while changing the chute direction simultaneously. The other way (right turn) requires you to stop or to turn the chute separately from turning. It turns on a dime and easily maneuvers wherever you need to go. Full speed forward is a good walking speed for clearing space in a hurry. The left hand j-hook turn is really quick too with the speed in full forward. Reverse is a bit slow for my taste. I suppose it is for safety reasons, but the reverse speed should be most of double what it is to make it more useable. I'm planning to dig into the controls system and see if I can make this happen.

The chute control works great and is easy enough to control on the fly. I wish it had a bit more total range than the 180 degrees left to right. Right rear and left rear are missing in the range.

All in all, a great machine. Hopefully, my last blower purchase, and I'm actually looking forward to the next snow storm.

Season's greetings from Minnesota. --Dan

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