How common is it to own a snowblower in the UK?

12 comments

1. It’s not and no. Close the thread and use google in future.

2. Never seen one let alone anyone owning one

   There’s no culture of clearing the snow in front of your house here in the uk, it’s every man for himself. People don’t even shovel and salt the the footpath in front of their house and they’ll use summer tyres in snow and ice

3. I could Google, but my response is ‘what’s a snowblower?’ – on the rare years we get snow in southern English cities, it sets solid very quickly and turns to ice. Blowing air would have no effect.

   Had two lots of a couple days of snow in the last 15 years, before that had had none lie for about 30 years.

   Rural areas and Scotland get more snow. People probably own a shovel.

4. I don’t know anyone who owns one, but I have a leaf blower that I think should work on snow.

5. The only people I can think might just possibly maybe have one sat somewhere would be an airport

   Edit: oh oh oh and maybe the part time ski slopes in Scotland

6. I’ve got a snow thrower in my shed. I bought it about 10 years ago when I got fed up with shovelling snow off the drive one year. I have yet to have a need to use it. But I’ve got it “ready”.

7. 1 in a million. There are approximately 70 in the UK.

8. Not even slightly common. We don’t get thick enough snow, nor is it of the light fluffy variety

9. Is this some coke joke ?

10. I would presume indoor ski slopes would use them. We just don’t get the snow to warrant owning them

11. In the UK snow is a rare excuse to bunk off work for the day… why would I own a tool that disrupts the natural order…

12. Some of the councils and people like bear and amey have big vehicles with snowblowers on them.

    When we had the beast from the east for example most of my neighbours shoveled the snow off their parking spaces. Tbh we never bothered as we run winter tyres on our SUV so just drove on the snow.