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Here’s another tip:
Keep some “Pam” cooking spray handy. Coat the chute (of your 2-stage) blower with that before getting started. Kind of like ski wax - will help prevent snow from sticking.
Some temperature / moisture levels can give you issues. Really wet stuff wont clog.

Prior to moving out of the Midwest, we had a really nice “mid level” width simplicity. Awesome machine. Better quality (my opinion) than toro or ariens. I bought a Cub Cadet this year (2 stage, 28” wide, I think) because my single stage toro wont cut it when the plow fills my driveway in. Would’ve bought another Simplicity - but I had some “points” to use on my credit card - and I could pay for most of it with a Home Depot gift card. It was between a Toro and a Cub. The Cub looked a bit heavier-duty. Seems “OK” so far, but would trade it off for the previous Simplicity in a minute.

It’s actually best to have a single stage for most of the light snowfalls, along with a big beast to cover the heavy, deep stuff.
I tried to get away with a Toro Power Clear single stage, but after 5 winters back in WI - we just get too many situations where it snows a lot, things drift over because of the wind - or the guy that drives the plow thinks that the entire cul-de-sac’s snow needs to go in my driveway.