Making a perfect snow pusher
 

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:24 -0500, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:

Ignoramus29783 wrote:

I have not seen a snow pusher that would actually work well. They are
too small and not too strongly made. Probably the Chinese have not
seen much snow and do not know what is a good snow pusher.
-snip-

Here's some food for thought.
http://snowpusherplus.com/
I'd want to beef it up a bit but I like the basic design.

I'm with you-- there are times that the correctly applied human effort
can be easier than messing with too-heavy machinery.

Jim
[for a bunch of links and some thoughts about shoveling snow-
this guy covers a lot of territory on one page-
http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=896 ]

Bingo! This site referred to the Yooper Scooper. I googled on that.
Oooh, ya, dat's da one, eh!
http://www.silverbear.biz/snowscoop.html

Making a perfect snow pusher
 

"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:24 -0500, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:

Ignoramus29783 wrote:

I have not seen a snow pusher that would actually work well. They are
too small and not too strongly made. Probably the Chinese have not
seen much snow and do not know what is a good snow pusher.
-snip-

Here's some food for thought.
http://snowpusherplus.com/
I'd want to beef it up a bit but I like the basic design.

I'm with you-- there are times that the correctly applied human effort
can be easier than messing with too-heavy machinery.

Jim
[for a bunch of links and some thoughts about shoveling snow-
this guy covers a lot of territory on one page-
http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=896 ]

Bingo! This site referred to the Yooper Scooper. I googled on that.
Oooh, ya, dat's da one, eh!
http://www.silverbear.biz/snowscoop.html

I have a snow scoop like this but it is made of fiberglass and is my third
choice for clearing snow behind our H Farmall and Arctic Cat four wheeler.
It also works well for cleaning roof tops if need be.
Steve

Making a perfect snow pusher
 

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:54:45 -0600, Up North wrote:
"Don Foreman" ... wrote ...
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:18:24 -0500, Jim Elbrecht ... wrote:
Ignoramus29783 ... wrote:
I have not seen a snow pusher that would actually work well. They are
too small and not too strongly made. Probably the Chinese have not
seen much snow and do not know what is a good snow pusher.
....
Here's some food for thought.
http://snowpusherplus.com/
....
[for a bunch of links and some thoughts about shoveling snow- this guy
covers a lot of territory on one page-
http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=896 ]
....
http://www.silverbear.biz/snowscoop.html

I have a snow scoop like this but it is made of fiberglass and is my
third choice for clearing snow behind our H Farmall and Arctic Cat four
wheeler. It also works well for cleaning roof tops if need be. Steve

My ~25-year-old snow scoop is similar to the Silver Bear scoop -- ie,
sheet metal with EMT handle, as at http://pat7.com/jp/snow/img_6934c.jpg
and http://pat7.com/jp/snow/img_6935c.jpg -- with a few differences, like
rounded corners at the top of the handle, a bend in the handle a few
inches behind the bin, etc. Overall size of bin is 22" wide (ie same
as S.B. scoop), 28" long, with sides tapering from 7" to 9" in height.
I don't see a need for wheels (an S.B. option), but a front wear plate
or stiffener would be good.

Little picture of snowblower on roof, 2001, South Dakota:
http://pat7.com/jp/snow/0227_003c.jpg

Making a perfect snow pusher
 

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:31:27 -0600, James Waldby wrote:

My ~25-year-old snow scoop is similar to the Silver Bear scoop -- ie,
sheet metal with EMT handle, as at http://pat7.com/jp/snow/img_6934c.jpg
and http://pat7.com/jp/snow/img_6935c.jpg -- with a few differences, like
rounded corners at the top of the handle, a bend in the handle a few
inches behind the bin, etc. Overall size of bin is 22" wide (ie same
as S.B. scoop), 28" long, with sides tapering from 7" to 9" in height.
I don't see a need for wheels (an S.B. option), but a front wear plate
or stiffener would be good.
I tend to avoid wear plates to the point that if there is one, I don't
buy. I just went out and bought a new shovel on Friday - plastic scoop
16" wide, 18" long, with a plastic "D" on the other end of four feet
of 1 1/4" hardwood dowel stock. This was to augment two "Melnor"
shovels a couple inches wider that I bought nearly twenty years ago
and have had the handles re-seated a couple times as well as the
blades being worn back to the reinforcing ridges. I still use the old
ones for pushing light snow into a windrow for the blower, and leave
them in visible locations for emergency use by passers-by. For serious
pushing of semi loose ice or hard packed snow, I have an old steel
bladed pusher worn down to a wavy edge that overcomes many years of
distortion that was left in a house I bought in 1975.
Getting back to wear strips, any that I have seen more than a couple
years old were totally distorted, or half detached and broken off.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada