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by: TheRealQuisp Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 10:49am  
I Don't Get It
 
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How is this supposed to be easier than a regular snow shovel? Sold at Kroger's.
 
Is it not meant for lifting and just for pushing snow out of the way?
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 10:55am  
The bent handle makes it easier to lift.
Are those shovel heads metal or plastic. The plastic ones are junk, IMO.
 
The shovels for pushing are called plow shovels and have a heavier metal curved blade.
www.northerntool.com /shop/tools/product_ 200617793_200617793
 
I have one of each. a lightweight lift shovel and a heavier plow shovel. Which one I use depends upon the weight of the snow and the depth.
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TheRealQuisp Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 11:44am  
The bent handle makes it easier to lift.
 
@joepyeweed : Yep, I'm a doofus. But you already knew that. HAHA!
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~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 11:50am  
joepyeweed : Yep, I'm a doofus. But you already knew that. HAHA!
 
@TheRealQuisp : I just figured you haven't shoveled much snow, lol.
 
I grew up in WI... during my first winter in central Illinois, I was very disappointed in the shovels that were being sold at the local stores. So the next time I was visiting my family, I made it a point of going to the local hardware store and buying a couple of "real"shovels to bring back home.
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EyeintheSky Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 1:58pm  
I have 2 styles of snow throwers one with rubber pads on the drum for lighter amounts of snow and one with auger blade for heavier and wet snow. PLUS kids who love to play in the snow with shovels.
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TheRealQuisp Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Dec 10, '18 7:50pm  
I just figured you haven't shoveled much snow,
 
@joepyeweed : Ah, you're talking to one who shoveled out of the blizzards of '78, '81, '82 etc., etc., in Fort Wayne.
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~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 10:50am  
I loved the big mounds of snow from the blizzard of 78! We had snow tunnels all over the neighborhood.
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skutfarcus Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 11:07am  
@joepyeweed : I had to drive 50 miles a day in all that.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 11:21am  
joepyeweed : I had to drive 50 miles a day in all that.
 
@skutfarcus : Where I was, no one was driving 50 miles. I remember my dad didn't make it home from work. My Dad and the neighbor's Dad carpooled to work together. They tried to leave work, but got about half way home and had to abandon the car and walked/trudged through the snow to a nearby farm house. They got home the next day via snowmobile, and it took two days for them dig the cars out that were stuck on the county highway.
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skutfarcus Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 11:23am  
I got stranded more than once.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 11:51am  
I got stranded more than once.
 
@skutfarcus : Well yeah, if it took you all day to go fifty miles... phew.
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skutfarcus Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 11:55am  
@joepyeweed : I was working 3rd shift. I got off at 7AM. Some days I wouldn't get home until the afternoon.
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TheRealQuisp Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 1:06pm  
People all over my neighborhood pulled sleds to bring home the groceries.
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TheRealQuisp Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 1:08pm  
There was a blizzard in '65 here in Podunkville. A cousin of mine had to pull his pregnant wife to the hospital on a sled. She had gone into labor. HAHA!
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~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 1:42pm  
@joepyeweed : It's not just the heads, it's also the strength of the metal of the handles. (More stress at the bends) At one point I had a good handle with a broken head, and a bent handle with a good head.
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skutfarcus Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 5 years ago   Dec 11, '18 1:46pm  
I was lucky a few times when I got stranded. Once was the Club 29 in Mossville and two times at Wernsman's restaurant in Germantown Hills.
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