Wovel vs sleigh shovel?

[Howard]

You decide.

 

[BoomerD]

Why not buy an electric snow shovel instead?

 

[Cerb]

WTH is a wovel?
WTH is a sleigh shovel?

<- Googles them

I almost wish I were a Yankee, now. The wovel is just so obviously awesome in its utility, yet at the same time silly looking enough that you desperately need to be mimicking a Monty Python sketch when using it.

 

[phucheneh]

The 'wheeled snow shovel' is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I assumed that I was not understanding the pictures, and that there must be some clever mechanical action built into it that made a proper 'snow throwing' motion. Then I checked a video and, nope, that shit is just retarded.

How would a plow design not be 100,000,000% better?

 

[PottedMeat]

I almost wish I were a Yankee, now. The wovel is just so obviously awesome in its utility, yet at the same time silly looking enough that you desperately need to be mimicking a Monty Python sketch when using it.

it's the lame spoke design. it looks like you're spinning a stained glass window around

 

[Red Squirrel]

Never used a wovel, I think it allows you to pitch the snow further away with less work, but I still pick the sleigh shovel since it can carry much more snow, and that is an important factor when you get snow in foot increments over night and need to get the car out of the driveway as quickly as possible to make it to work on time. If you are lucky the snow plow did not pass yet so you can just drive out, but if the snow plow passed you are scrambling to open up the snow bank wide enough to let the car through. Worry about shoveling it properly after work when you have more time (and storm probably calmed down by then).

 

[Perknose]

WTH is a wovel?
WTH is a sleigh shovel?

<- Googles them

^^^ Does same, learns he has a sleigh shovel.

I did not know that. I got it at some garage sale for a couple of bucks and have used it the last three winters. It has cut my time and exertion to 1/3 or 1/4 of previously, no lie, no exaggeration.

I don't know about the wovel, but my sleigh shovel has been beyond awesome.

Sleigh shovel, meh, I wish I didn't know its true name. I prefer Terror God of the Precious Little Snow Flakes.

 

[herm0016]

yooper scoop is the best snow removing device known to man.

http://www.silverbear.biz/

i guess that is a sleigh shovel? the all metal ones are awesome.

 

[TallBill]

yooper scoop is the best snow removing device known to man.

http://www.silverbear.biz/

i guess that is a sleigh shovel? the all metal ones are awesome.

Paying another human to do the work is much easier.

 

[edro]

I assumed that I was not understanding the pictures, and that there must be some clever mechanical action built into it that made a proper 'snow throwing' motion. Then I checked a video and, nope, that shit is just retarded.

I agree. The video shows that you have to accelerate it and ramp it up something to fling the snow.

I can see this device tipping over easily and pissing me off.

 

[Doppel]

Neither. Any significant amount of snow requires electricity, gasoline, or muscles (old fashioned way with a scooper shovel). You can't push any meaningful amount of snow out like a snow plow because it gets too heavy and you won't have the traction.

The wovel does look silly, though if we can believe amazon it is reviewed well.

The sleigh one looks better, but I wouldn't expect it to handle more than a couple of inches and really why not just let it melt then.

The shovels that are bent like a spoon are better on the back and bending, but they are also weak and prone to breakage.

 

[bignateyk]

I just use an ATV with a 50" plow on it. Takes me 10 minutes to clear a 400 foot driveway.

 

[bignateyk]

yooper scoop is the best snow removing device known to man.

http://www.silverbear.biz/

i guess that is a sleigh shovel? the all metal ones are awesome.

From the video, it looks retarded. It's only easy while you push all the snow into a giant pile at the end of your driveway. You still have to put a ton of work into moving the huge pile at the end.

 

[notposting]

yooper scoop is the best snow removing device known to man.

http://www.silverbear.biz/

i guess that is a sleigh shovel? the all metal ones are awesome.

Saved me all the effort, but anyway ^^^ this.





When the U.P. becomes the 51st state (Superior) will Yooper's be renamed Super's?

 

[Perknose]

The sleigh one looks better, but I wouldn't expect it to handle more than a couple of inches and really why not just let it melt then.

I'm here to tell you, from three winters of personal experience, that employing my Terror God of the Precious Little Snow Flakes (which you and others know as a sleigh shovel) numerous times for depths of 4-8 inches has saved considerable time and effort over any kind of bent or regular shovel, to a tremendous degree, because of little to no lifting.

I'm sure I could explain how better and in more detail, but I'm not looking to engage in any argument, I'm just sayin' . . . my Terror God rulez, yo.

 

[Bryophyte]

Kubota tractor.

 

[dank69]

yooper scoop is the best snow removing device known to man.

http://www.silverbear.biz/

i guess that is a sleigh shovel? the all metal ones are awesome.

That would be great for me if I could just push all the snow into the street. I don't know anyone that has a raised driveway such that they can just push the snow off to the side. Even if your driveway is level with the surrounding terrain you are going to have snow banks lining the sides after the first snow.

 

[herm0016]

i lived up there for 5 winters, and use them. we made a little ramp up into the yard and dumped it there. when you get 15 or 20 feet of snow, you always have piles at the edges of the drive way, no matter the shovel.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have a steel shovel with a thick wood handle. It's heavy as fvck, but, I have managed to use it for several winters in a row and I have not broken it. It has outsurvived every shovel I have ever owned.

The Sleigh shovel looks like a nice idea, except in my case, the driveway is not smooth or even ...

 

[TwiceOver]

From the video, it looks retarded. It's only easy while you push all the snow into a giant pile at the end of your driveway. You still have to put a ton of work into moving the huge pile at the end.

Confuses me too. So now that it is in a big pile in the street, you get out a real shovel and go to work?

 

[Howard]

The 'wheeled snow shovel' is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I assumed that I was not understanding the pictures, and that there must be some clever mechanical action built into it that made a proper 'snow throwing' motion. Then I checked a video and, nope, that shit is just retarded.

How would a plow design not be 100,000,000% better?

I'm not taking a stance on which design is better, but the advantage of the wovel is that you never have to lift up, only push down. This reduces the load on your back tremendously compared to a regular shovel when you have to pick up the snow which exerts both a downward force as well as a torque on your body.