Best Snow Blower for Women: 5 Picks Ranked by Weight, Start and Drive

The Greenworks 60V 20-Inch Single-Stage is the one I'd pick if you want a battery machine whose weight you can pin down: 38.68 lb with the battery and 34.4 lb without it. The Snow Joe 24V-X2-SB22 is 45.2 lb with batteries installed, and the 24V-X2-SB18's lower figure is disputed. The Greenworks's 20 in path sits between the SB18's 18 in and the SB22's 22 in.

It starts with a push button, on a single-stage design with a brushless motor. The kit includes one 5.0 Ah battery and a charger, and the warranty covers tool and battery for 4 years, against 2 years on each of the three Snow Joe picks. Greenworks rates it for up to 30 minutes of run time and up to a 6-car driveway per charge, and does not recommend its single-stage snow throwers on gravel.

Here's the catch. It isn't self-propelled, so the pushing is yours. Three of its specs also come with two values each: clearing depth, throw distance and charge time (up to 150 minutes, or 50 min with the included charger).

The Snow Joe 24V-X2-SB18 is the pick if the lowest number on the spec sheet matters most to you. On Snow Joe's page it has the lowest listed weight among these picks, but the page gives three different figures for the same kit and Bob Vila gives a higher one. That's why it sits behind the Greenworks, which is 38.68 lb with the battery.

It's also the narrowest pick: 18 in wide by 10 in deep per pass, against 20 in wide for the Greenworks. It has a 1200 W brushless motor and throws snow up to 20 ft; the 24V-X2-SB22 has a 1600 W brushless motor and throws up to 25 ft.

Power comes from two 24 V batteries, 4.0 Ah each, with a dual-port charger in the kit.

The Snow Joe SJ627E is the pick if you'd rather plug in than keep batteries charged. It's a corded electric model with a 15 A motor, and it starts with a push button. Its path is 22 in wide by 13 in deep and it throws snow up to 25 ft, the same figures as the battery-powered 24V-X2-SB22.

The only weight given is a gross weight of 34.6 lb, a shipping-style figure, with no net weight beside it. So I can't line it up fairly against the Greenworks's 38.68 lb with the battery.

Mind the limits. Snow Joe lists the snow type as light and fluffy, the surface as paved and the drive system as "Auger Assisted", and doesn't say whether the unit is single-stage or two-stage. The auger is all steel, where the Greenworks uses a poly impeller.

The Snow Joe 24V-X2-SB22 is the pick if you want a wider path without a cord. It clears 22 in wide by 13 in deep, against 20 in wide for the Greenworks and 18 in by 10 in for the 24V-X2-SB18. The EGO Power+ SNT2425 is wider still at 24 in, but it's a two-stage machine with no listed weight.

The trade is on the scale: 45.2 lb with batteries installed, against 38.68 lb with the battery for the Greenworks. It's listed as single-stage, with a 1600 W brushless motor and a 4-blade rubber-tipped steel auger. It moves up to 840 lb of snow per minute and throws it up to 25 ft, the same two figures as the corded SJ627E.

The kit includes two 8.0 Ah batteries and a high-speed dual-port charger. Snow Joe says that charger can recharge in as fast as 2 hours. There's a recharge time but no run time per charge.

The EGO Power+ SNT2425 is the pick if pushing a machine through snow is the part you dread. It's a 24 in two-stage snow blower that's self-propelled, with variable-speed forward and reverse controls.

It also has the widest path and the longest throw figure of the five: 24 in and up to 50 ft, against 22 in and up to 25 ft for the two 22 in Snow Joe models. The intake height is 20 in. A remote joystick controls the chute, with 200 degrees of rotation and 65 degrees of deflection control, and it rolls on 14 in airless tires with snow treads.

The SNT2425 kit includes two 7.5 Ah batteries and a dual-port charger. EGO rates it for up to an 18-car driveway with 8 in of snow on a single charge using the two included 7.5 Ah batteries.

Here's the catch. There's no listed weight, so you can't compare it with the other four on paper.