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Originally Posted by chipj29
The JD at Home Depot/Lowes is the same JD you would get at the JD dealer. The difference is as dpg states...good luck getting it serviced.
Same with Ariens snowblowers. I was talking to the local Ariens dealer. He flat out told me that the ones on sale at Home Depot are the same, but good luck getting service, as he would take his own customers as priority over customers who bought elsewhere.
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This is the original intent of my post. The tractor/mower/snowblower you buy at the big box stores is not the same item you would buy at the local JD/Ariens dealer. For example you can put an Ariens 824 snowblower bought at HD side by side with one bought at an Ariens dealer and although they look the same they aren't. The most notable difference is the gearbox that drives the auger. In the bigbox store machines those are made of aluminum. The other one will be made of cast iron or steel. This and other unnoticeable cosmetic and mechanical changes make the machine less expensive to manufacture and therefore less expensive to buy at the BB stores.
I'm not making this up, folks. I've seen it time and time again on mowers, tractors, snowblowers and appliances.
BT