10-27-2009, 04:32 PM
I bought a Eskimo Mako about 2 years ago runs great cuts through the ice like a hot knife through butter.
But when you do buy an auger take into consideration the manufacture of the engine. I know some Jiffy & Strikemaster, Augers use Tecumseh Engines older Eskimo do too but there newer models use a foreign made engine and nobody in utah will service it.. (great engine though)
Reason being is last year I broke the throttle handle and cable off should of been covered under warranty. Couldnt find a single shop here in Utah to service it. Trust me I contacted everyone The closest shop that would repair it was in Cedar City. There was one shop in American Fork but I he was going to charge me $$$ for a warranty repair. Ended up contacting Eskimo \ Arisdam awesome customer service they ended up overnighting me the parts and I fixed my self.
Dont get me wrong I've really enjoyed the Eskimo Auger havent had a problem with it other than the one mentioned earlier and the was mostly my fault. But if you do run into problems there's nobody in utah (atleast I know of) too assist you But every shop here in Utah will work on a Tecumseh engine [unimpressed]
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But when you do buy an auger take into consideration the manufacture of the engine. I know some Jiffy & Strikemaster, Augers use Tecumseh Engines older Eskimo do too but there newer models use a foreign made engine and nobody in utah will service it.. (great engine though)
Reason being is last year I broke the throttle handle and cable off should of been covered under warranty. Couldnt find a single shop here in Utah to service it. Trust me I contacted everyone The closest shop that would repair it was in Cedar City. There was one shop in American Fork but I he was going to charge me $$$ for a warranty repair. Ended up contacting Eskimo \ Arisdam awesome customer service they ended up overnighting me the parts and I fixed my self.
Dont get me wrong I've really enjoyed the Eskimo Auger havent had a problem with it other than the one mentioned earlier and the was mostly my fault. But if you do run into problems there's nobody in utah (atleast I know of) too assist you But every shop here in Utah will work on a Tecumseh engine [unimpressed]
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