Snow Joe 15-Amp Corded Electric Snow Blower, 22" Clearing Path w/Dual LED Lights, Steel Auger, 180° Adjustable Chute & Clean-Out Tool – High-Capacity for Large Driveways & Walkways, SJ627E

Worked great in the recent Baltimore snow Jan 2026. Used on approximately 7-8 inches of snow. Like any blower it will not work on hard ice covered snow. The throw is pretty good. Perfect for sidewalks, and driveways two to two and a half car widths. Easy to use, no assembly required just extend handles and twist locks down. I oiled the swivel thrower head as recommended. Pay attention to which way the heads swivels so you don’t strip the cogs on the control twist handle. Thrower head rightfully only rotates 180 degrees and not back towards you. I would by again. For home it is better then dealing with gas, but yes you need power or generator to run. But if I am out of power I have bigger concerns than 6-8 inches of snow in the driveway lol

INTRO-1: I live up in the Pacific North West, and we are plagued by horrible winter storms. Most of the time we get very little snow, but on occasion, we really get the snow. I chose not to go with a gas blower for 3 reasons. (1) Gas blowers are very expensive! (2) Gas blowers require lots of maintenance, they have an engine afterall! (3) We rarely get enough snow to warrant the power of a gas blower. However, when you look at my pictures, you can tell I could have used a gas blower for the drift alone, but thats what a shovel is for lol. Like I said, most of the time we don't get this much snow, if we get any at all, so it made sense to save money, and go electric. INTRO-2: When choosing a snow blower, you have to think about the job at hand. How much snow do you get? Are you within 100-feet of an electrical outlet? Perhaps you want to skip corded electric and gas all together and go with a cordless electric? I watched video's online of cordless blowers, and to be honest, I am not really impressed. For one thing, they cost as much as a single stage gas blower, and they perform worse then a corded electric. So for me the choice was simple. I chose the 21" 15-AMP electric snow blower form Snow Joe. ASSEMBLY: Assembling this blower is very easy, all you have to do is attach the handles, wheels, chute control arm, and chute top, everything else comes already assembled. If your not sure, just follow the directions in the manual. Assembly can be completed within 30-minutes if you are slow at assembling things, or within 10-minutes if your quick. CORD: Because not everybody knows this, I feel the need to quickly mention that you must match the cord to the draw of the machine. This machine requires a minimum of a 12 gauge 3 conductor electrical cord. I highly recommend you purchase a US & WIRE Extreme cable sold on Amazon, as they remain flexible and easy to manage in freezing and sub freezing temperatures. Also make sure to get the proper length you need. Tiny driveways you can probably get away with a 50 footer. For average size driveways, you want a 100 footer. And don't get anything over 100 feet unless you step up to a 10 gauge 3 conductor cord. MOTOR: This snow blower uses a 15-AMP motor, which averages around 1500-watts of draw. A standard garage circuit or household circuit, has a 20-AMP max breaker capacity. This motor will draw 1800-watts peak power during motor startup only. Because of this, please make sure there is nothing else running on the circuit, otherwise you might risk tripping your breaker. This motor has lots of power for what it was designed to do, and it sure didn't disappoint me! BLOWER: The blower has a 12-inches tall opening by 21-inches wide. It is designed to take on no more then 1 foot at a time, however its pretty slow doing that even with fluffy snow. The blower seems to excel at tackling 6-inches to 8-inches at a respectful pace. Like I said, it will handle a foot of snow at a time, but it will be slow going. If the snow is over a foot tall, you will have to tilt the blower up to take off the top layer first, then come back again to take off the bottom layer. If your drifts are between 2-feet to 3-feet you can forget it, you will never tilt it high enough, and be able to push it through the drift. Your just going to have to grab a shovel if your in that situation and remove the top layer of the drift with a snow shovel first, then come back with the blower after that. I took a picture of the snow blower next to a drift that is too tall for the capacity of the machine. I just needed to shovel that top layer off there, then I could come back with the blower and finish it up. DRIVE: I want to remind everyone, that this blower is not self propelled. Your not going to find self propelled at this price point. This is a blower that you have to push. If you are a senior citizen, or someone with a disability, you might find pushing this thing difficult. However, if you are healthy, you can push this blower no problem, as long as you are not pushing it beyond its recommended limits. AUGER: This is a single stage snow blower, hence it has an auger, but no impeller. The auger spins at a blindingly fast rate, which grabs the snow via the rubber paddles, and throws it through the chute. The rubber paddles are replaceable, but I haven't seen any wear after a single use! On the left side of the blower is a panel that you can remove, to give you access to the sealed belt and pulley's, that link the motor to the auger. This was a good design to help keep snow away from the belt! The belt and pully's are also replaceable if they should wear out on you. CONTROLS: The controls at the operator position are very simple. You have the safety start button, the start bar, the LED headlight, and the chute direction control. In order to start the blower, you have to press and hold the safety button, and then pull back the start bar against the handle, easy! The direction of the chute can be operated remotely via the directional control arm, but the vertical up/down movement has to be done manually at the chute itself. The LED headlight has a on/off switch on top of it, so you can choose weather to run it or not, and the light position is adjustable. WHEELS: The wheels on this blower are not the greatest in the world, however, they are not the worst either. While I would have preferred pneumatic wheels, you won't find those in this price range. At least this blower didn't come with those cheap noisy plastic wheels found on kids big wheels. The wheels move over the driveway pretty well, so I am not going to fault them too much. But the reason I would have preferred pneumatic wheels, is because they are superior at moving over terrain. HANDLE: The handle itself provides a nice foam grip for your hands. It would have been nice if it were heated but again, not found in this price range. If you just wear a thick pair of winter gloves you will be fine. The handle doesn't seem to flex much at all, which really is a surprise considering the cost of the machine. I've actually been quite pleased with the handle, and I can even hang it up on the wall via the handle, so multi-purpose abilities are the way to go here. CLEANING: Cleaning up the blower is very simple, all you need is a small broom, and you just sweep the snow off of it, thats really the only maintenance you need to do on it! If it were a gas machine, you would have to worry about draining the carburetor of gas, and changing the oil for the next season. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, this is a very nice snow blower. It tackles everything I need it to do, except for the drifts. It has plenty of power for what it was designed to do, and it gets the job done. I'm actually happy that I didn't go with a lesser 13-AMP 18" model, as that would have been a pain to use in this situation. This 15-AMP 21" model was surprisingly easy to use. And if your concerned with the noise factor, well, this electric machine can be run without hearing protection on, so it won't annoy your neighbors early in the morning either. If your looking for an electric model, I recommend this one!

It works great on new/dry snow. We have the 21 inch and easily cleared an 8” snow fall. Relatively easy to put together, but had to have my husband snap on the cord guide/rings as they took a little more muscle. A little cumbersome avoiding the extension cord while clearing the drive. For the price, it was worth the inconvenience

You never kniw what you’ll get when you purchase something online but this little snow blower came in handy this weekend. We got about 5” of dry powdery snow. Thankfully I purchased the snowblower the week of the storm before it hit. It says it can handle up to 10” of snow and I believe it can do more. I was hitting drifts that were about a foot deep and it was throwing it of the chute with no problem. It threw the snow about 10-15 feet depending on how deep it was. It seems to throw snow farther the deeper it is. Starting it is a breeze. Push the safety button and pull the handle and away you go. Having a hook for the power cord made it easy to keep the cord from getting wet in the snow. Noise level isn’t loud at all for what it is. Heck of a lot quieter than a gas power blower. Instructions very easy to follow and easy to assemble. Took about 5 minutes to assemble and saves me a world of back pain and time. lol I even went around to my families houses to use it. Works great on decks too.

Cette souffleuse, si on l'utilise 《intelligemment et dans ses limites》, est un très bon produit. Je suis au Québec alors il y a parfois d'importantes chutes de neige et je déneige un stationnement de 2 voitures et trottoir devant la maison assez rapidement (selon épaisseur et condition de neige). Lorsqu'il y a une bonne épaisseur de neige, par ex. 30 cm, elle fait vraiment bien le travail si on ramasse la neige sur environ le 1/3 de la largeur de la souffleuse. Personnellement, lorsqu'il y a épais de neige, je fais rapidement un petit chemin à la pelle (largeur de la pelle) et passe la souffleuse ensuite en prenant une largeur de neige moindre que celle de la souffleuse. J'adapte la largeur de neige à ramasser selon l'épaisseur. Ainsi je déneige plus épais de neige à la fois, elle demeure facile à pousser, ne force pas et demeure très efficace. Note : Selon mon constat, la capacité annoncée de 10 cm c'est quand on ramasse la neige sur sa pleine largeur. En déneigeant sur moins large, j'ai ramassé de 20 à 30 cm d'épaisseur à la fois. Autre truc pour épaisseurs importantes de neige : basculer légèrement la souffleuse sur ses roues et déneiger le dessus et redescendre graduellement. Elle est légère alors c'est facile. Important! La souffleuse ne doit pas être utilisée où il y a des morceaux de glace à ramasser. Aussi, si vous voyez que la souffleuse est difficile à pousser c'est que vous déblayez des zones de neige trop larges. Et c'est là que vous risquez de la briser. Si la neige est épaisse ou mouillée, déneigez une zone moins large à la fois. Rappellez-vous qu'elle ne coûte pas 2000 $ et n'est pas en acier. 😄 Aussi, n'oubliez pas d'utiliser un fil électrique au calibre recommandé par le fabricant et un peu plus long que nécessaire. Si la chute à neige est correctement installée, elle ne devrait pas trop bouger d'elle-même. Vous changerez seulement la direction au besoin. Suivez bien les instructions d'assemblage du manuel. Enfin, la distance de lancement de la neige est plus grande et efficace si la direction de la chute à neige est vers l'avant. Pour la neige mouillée ça fonctionne mais comme n'importe quelle souffleuse à 1 étape, la neige peut coincer dans la cheminée. Ça vaut la peine d'acheter l'outil SunJoe pour débloquer la cheminée. Bref, si vous voulez une souffleuse très abordable, légère et surprenamment efficace pour un prix très abordable avec un peu d'adaptation (voir mes trucs ci-haut) vous allez l'adorer. J'espère juste maintenant qu'elle sera durable. :)

I am very impressed with this little workhorse. Powerful motor. Handles could be sturdier and longer, but it works well. Did a trail to my shed. Cleared my deck after removing snow from my roof.

Total piece of garbage,used it 5 time and now i cant even push without the handle spitting in the middle,the whole thing is shaking and loud,I think the chute screw broke the first day. honestly get a good shovel instead,good work out and takes less time ,For someone in the north this thing is a scam,for heavy snow your screwed unless you like spending 20 min pushing over and over to move 1 m of snow .Total waste of money !

The picture does not do this snow thrower justice: it is small. When they say it is rated for 10-inches or less, they mean it. I bought this because last winter I woke up one day to a driveway I could not clear up with my shovel: I laboured for 3 hours and eventually had to stop, exhausted, only having cleared a small stretch. Then the neighbour came along and cleared my driveway for me in short order with a big gas snow thrower. I was hoping I won't be caught unprepared again with a decent snow thrower of my own, but unfortunately this one would not have been able to get me out of this particular situation. It would still have made it easier, though, maybe easy enough so that I wouldn't be in needed of saving. So far I have used it twice to clear 6-7 inches of snow at a time and it has been a pleasure to use. The cord is unpleasant to handle, as usual, but once you get the hang of it, it is not too bad. You do need a 12/3 outdoor cord for cold weather, and you do need to use it on a GFI outdoor outlet only. Once I had to clear a snow drift that was taller than the snow thrower and I had to do it in stages, being very careful not to stall the motor, but eventually I got the job done. Still, it was more than obvious that the snow thrower cannot handle much more than the very rare snow drift: 10 inches is the absolute maximum. The snow thrower is quite light, it has no mass, so I find I have to lift its wheels off the ground slightly and push it forward with my body weight, almost the way I push my shovel, to get it to do its job. Even so, I still have to clean up with a shovel after it in some places (e.g. edges, places with accumulation of snow). In terms of construction, it is a combination of metal and plastic, mostly plastic. The chute mechanism is all plastic and is quite flimsy: the crank does not always work well. Also, some people have complained that the isolation on the cable cracks from the cold: I wound insulating tape along the entire length of every exposed piece of wire, hoping it would either prevent this from happening, or at the very least let it short-circuit without electrocuting me. Time will tell. I think the motor would fail first, though: this seems to be weak link here. In any case, for the time being it works quite well and I have no major complaints. EDIT: It's a year and a half into my purchase. I was enjoying my snow thrower and was able to negotiate quite a lot of snow with it, until a rock buried under the snow got caught in the blades. One section of the blade got bent badly out of shape and dug into the plastic of the snow thrower and got stuck, making a nasty gash on the plastic and cracking it one place. Pretty nasty. I managed to repair it, but now it vibrates a little bit more than it used to, I guess I didn't do a good enough job. Lesson learned: this snow thrower can't handle rocks. On the upside, while having the snow thrower apart I noticed the motor has what looks like overheat protection and there is something I think is an ingenious auto-shutoff for when the blade gets stuck. This snow thrower is built well and with a lot of thought, but it's mostly plastic and there are no replacement parts for it. Maybe I can get another year out of it. EDIT 2: I’ve had this snow thrower for a little over 5 years now and this time I think it died for good. The rotor stopped spinning on me today, leaving me to clean up by hand. It’s been loosing power during the previous 2 snowfalls, the rotor was getting progressively easier to jam with snow. Now it stopped spinning. It’s not burned out, the motor keeps running as normal. I think something got stripped in the transmission and this time I will need a replacement part. There are no replacement parts for that, so this is probably the end. My next one is probably going to be gas, though looking at my cramped garage and the price tag of a good gas one, I am giving this one a very hard look. EDIT 3: It seems Snow Joe is selling replacement parts for my snow thrower now, including replacement wear surfaces and the auger pulley that got stripped! This was quite a surprise! The replacement parts were overpriced (why?), shipping was ridiculously expensive (why???) and when the parts finally came, there were no instructions with them (why??????). I figured out what to do and am waiting for the next snowfall to really try out my old-new snow thrower. It is definitely showing its age: there is rust in places and I had to cut a corroded bolt, but the motor is still going strong and maybe I can get another season or two out of it. That would make it a very long-lasting snow thrower indeed!

Bought this for my elderly parents as it was light, 15A, and had decent reviews. I fully understood that I was dealing with a lightweight, electric machine that would never be able to match the performance of a gas unit. I even dug up video reviews of the machine working before I bought it. First snowfall arrives: approximately 4" of light, powdery snow on the ground. I get out my heavy duty cord (100' 12ga), grab the machine from their garage and get to work, stopping immediately; something is beating against the chassis when the auger turns and it sounds like the thing is going to tear itself apart. I unplug it, flip the unit upside down on the workbench, and turn the auger by hand to see if I can find what is hitting the machine but it's smooth as silk. So I flip it back upright and turn it again, discovering that the bottom of the chute flexes when the machine is upright and the flat rubber pieces are hitting. I unscrew those to see if they're adjustable (nope), and then file them both down until they are no longer hitting the chute. Rev the machine on the garage floor and it's not hitting anymore; score. Once the machine is back outside I start to push it and... the noise comes back, just as loud as before. The chute has so much flex to it that just pushing the machine over (light) snow causes it to bow enough to hit the auger again. Now that I know what is happening, I grab some hearing protection and get started. The machine throws the snow like a champ, easily moves it beyond the edges of the driveway. Except for the bottom inch or so; that stuff gets polished into a compacted layer of slick snow. Superb. By now the plough has gone by and there's a ridge of awful road snow at the end of the driveway, so I figure I'll see if this will at least help clear something like that. I ease the machine into it gently, and it starts to chip at it, but gave up almost immediately as I smelled the motor overheating. After that, I stashed it back in the garage and cleared the rest with a shovel, only slipping once on the polished snow left behind by this farce of a tool. Bottom line: yes, on a very technically-correct, syntactically-accurate, legal department-satisfying level, this machine throws snow. But so does a toddler when you play outside in the middle of winter.