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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 |
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Making a perfect snow pusher
"Don Foreman" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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