just a dissenting vote re size. My drive way is 125' long and it has a 4 car wide parking area/turn around too. The winter of 04-05 gave us a good amount of snow usually 8-10" at a wack. here in Marshfield. I'm close enough to the ocean so snow tends to wet. I was using an old Ariens 20" 2 stage with a 4.5 hp motor. It was the little engine that could. As long as I kept the intake out of the snow that rig handled 2' drifts with out a problem. Last yr , I had an 8 hp 24" Ariens. less snow, and it was a bit faster, but my back felt the difference. I have no recommendations re replacement. Are you sure your present snowblower has a gear trouble or maybe it just needs a new belt or two?

I have have had a few Ca. Minneolas that were from small growers that were sweet and had good flavor. Just about all commercially sold Minneolas these days are tart and not sweet at all. I have trouble calling that good. Florida used to have a few good Minneolas shipped here but that was long ago. Page grown in coastal Texas is full complex flavored and sweet. I have three trees. One on citrange and two on trifoliate rootstock. The tree on citrange was badly damaged in the 19 to 23 deg freeze in Dec '09, the other two were undamaged. The damaged tree took 23 to 26 deg several times with no harm. One Page was sold as a Lee. Page has the ability to give good yields, year after year, while many mandarin hybrids have alternate bearing crops. Page makes a nice sized tree, not too small or too large. Some citrus experts consider Page the standard for citrus flavor with balance of complexity, richness and sweetness. I tend to agree. Some line up in favor of Minneola. I have never seen a Page that was not of good quality from a healthy tree in season. I cannot be say that of Minneola. Much has been said of Page being too small. Most of the fruit on the Pages I have seen are as large or larger than the Dancy's, and Sunbursts in the markets. Only 1/4 to 1/3 of the fruit is small and that is still larger than the "Cuties" that they are selling in today's markets. Yes the small fruit is hard to peel. I juice them and blend that with other juice that needs upgrading. Minneola ripens late in winter here and the trees are generally larger than can be covered to prevent crop loss during a hard freeze. Page holds well on the tree after ripening in early December, before fruit damage is a problem. A big old Minneola full of ripening fruit in late Dec. is an awsome sight. And it is also one I don't want to worry about. I have some Clem. x Orlando tan-tangelos that give such good fruit that it was an easy decision for me to plant them instead either of the two Minneolas I had on hand. These were Nova, Fairchild, and F-6-9-10. On a given year one of them is likely to be as good or slightly better than Page. I have a Fortune that on some years is as good a sweet Minneola but some years is just like a tart Minneola.

I am not familiar with the American Range but I do have the DCS, all gas, the things I love - dual stacked burner for fantastic simmer on all 5 burners. The center burner, I end up using it almost every night. The infra red broiler is great. Going from my electric oven was a concern but I have no problems with the baking I have done and roasting is better, more moist. For my purpose the one thing I wish was different is a reverse on the burners, to have 3 of the 12,500 and 2 of the 17,500. On a rare occasion I have had all 5 burners going and freq have 4.

Beckington, I can't speak to the GE range as I have a GE elec wall oven and a gas range top. However, my wall oven has the steam clean function as well as the old fashioned self clean. From my experience, the steam clean is worthless. The regular self clean works very well. The oven keeps even temperatures, it does have WiFi connectivity which I never hooked up. I don't know if you can assume the oven in the range works the same as the wall oven. One might think they are using the same technology but who knows. Maybe a call to GE could answer your question. Inga