The trick to throwing wet slop is keeping the mouth full, and adjusting your forward motion to keep the governor wide open but not allowing the RPM'S to drop, thus loosing power.
It can be done with a little practice.
Also a slight increase in auger speed with a one tooth increase in the jack shaft sprocket driving the auger helps.
I find a 4 paddle auger works better than a 2 paddle auger on the QA-42's
Now these are single stage throwers, not 2 stage blowers, as I have not had experience using 2 stages blowers.
Clearing snow on gravel surfaces is tedious, most times I keep the thrower higher than I want, just to keep from having to rake the rocks out of the grass come spring.
Also I have, as mentioned, used the thrower as a blade to pile snow at the edge of the driveway so raking rocks is confined to a foot or so on the grass.
Did I mention I hate snow?
