Over the last couple of weeks, at least three coatings of light, powdery snow fell on my house in the New York City suburbs. For such scant accumulations, pulling out my spanking new 24-inch snow blower—which I bought based on our preliminary testing—would have been overkill. So I put another ne...

While Mother Nature has dumped a decent amount of snow on the Consumer Reports headquarters this winter (as you can see in the video, right), early on in the testing cycle for snow blowers, the white stuff was limited. In mid-December, testers began preliminary work using wet sawdust, since it can s...

I'd like to save money by not paying a service to plow my driveway this winter. Can I add a plow or snow blower to my lawn tractor? Adding a plow or snow-blower attachment to your tractor isn't an ideal solution, according to our power-equipment guru, Peter Sawchuk. "Wet snow is heavy, and a co...