![]() It’s unfortunate that Ryobi offers no onboard charging system that would allow you to just plug the snow blower in and know that the next time you need it all four batteries would be filled. In most cases the pull cord is knotted at the handle to keep it from pulling off the cord. We found this step easy to forget, and during one snow we realized that we had only two fully charged batteries because we hadn’t put the other ones on the charger. Like the Ego SNT2405, the Ryobi RY40870 comes with a two-port charger, but with four batteries, this means that you need to swap out the first two once they’re full. That 20-minute stretch was enough for us to do quite a bit of clearing, but the real difficulty lay in the charging. ![]() In our tests, we got close to 20 minutes with the Ryobi, short of the Ego’s 25 to 26 minutes. ![]() But the battery life with all four batteries still falls short of what we saw from the Ego model’s two batteries. The Briggs & Stratton 1227MD dual stage snow blower powers through wet, heavy snow up to 51 cm. With all of them engaged in the snow blower, you get increased run time. ![]() The Ryobi RY40870 needs two batteries to operate, but it has room for four and comes with four. ![]()
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