On Jan 30, 4:38*pm, Joseph Gwinn wrote:

The old hoe-like tool was the least work and wear-and-tear on the user:
just lift it up and let it drop on the ice. *Time after time.

Joe Gwinn- Hide quoted text -

As long as you didn't have a corner lot and needed the whole surface
cleared. Was great for spot work, though. Dad did the shoveling, we
kids -got- to chop the ice(such a treat!). The head wasn't that heavy
and he'd drilled a hole at the end and stuck a rope loop for a grabber
through it. Could be powered down on hard spots that way. None of
the current items that folks have thrown up URLs on so far are exactly
like it. Was probably 5-6" wide and had a tang and socket connection
to the handle, tang being about 3/8" or so.

For long drives and such, a small tractor-mounted thrower is hard to
beat, just depends on how much you have to move and how far. A small
lawn tractor may do it, a 12 hp JD lawn tractor took care of a block
long lot plus parking for many years. Getting it started in cold
weather was sometimes a chore, though. And getting the thing attached
and belted up wasn't a picnic, either, even before the snow started
falling.

Stan