wheeled snow shovels?

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

On a previous job I worked at this guy had a heated driveway. I recommend that if you have the cash.

 

[olds]

On a previous job I worked at this guy had a heated driveway. I recommend that if you have the cash.

I saw a homemade one in Mother Earth News in the 70s.
A guy ran galvanized pipe under his driveway and into his fireplace. He plumbed the pipes in a modified hatch pattern and be built his fires on the pipe. There was a pump plumbed in and it circulated the hot water.

 

[PingSpike]

I never understood these wheeled contraptions or the big scoop shovels with the handle bar on them. They're always advertised as being easier for old people to use but I look at them and can only see something useless. They imply that pushing is the hardest job when shoveling. Its always been the throwing that is the main effort to me, even if I could push 6"-12" of snow with one of these things, where exactly would I be pushing it too? Florida? I thought dumping it in the street was illegal in most municipalities. They might work a little better just pushing a couple inches out of the way but I never considered that an effort that needed an improvement in efficiency because its so damn easy to do. The hard part, hurling a foot of snow onto the even higher probably frozen pile on the lawn is made more difficult with the weight of the wheel or impossible in the case of the scoop since it lacks a center handle.

 

[twinrider1]

It's for pushing. Think of it as a human powered bulldozer. No, it's not good for deep snow. Yes, it does a great job of moving a few inches of snow with minimal effort.

This. We still use the term shoveling snow, but what I'm doing 90% of the time is plowing. That is, on the rare occasion I do something about the snow. My primary method is a solar snow abatement system.