Thanks for watching! Do you have any unique methods of clearing snow off your driveway? Please share in the comments below. I would love to hear other ideas. I have other how-to videos on my channel that you may like. Thanks.
Thanks for making this video, Vil! I have a comment and a question: 1. I find if I lift the handle and tip the metal edge down, it actually digs down pretty well -- and doesn't leave that thin layer of snow you mentioned. Of course, the smoother the ground surface, the more true this is. 2. My sleigh shovel *broke* last evening. I was occasionally tipping it left and right to dump snow, and the two plastic ring areas at the top of the shovel snapped off. So, instead of there being two 2"-long supportive tubes at the top of the shovel to hold the metal handle tubes, there are two broken-plastic stubs. We tried epoxying it back together, but that didn't hold. It seems to work okay just to push the handle bars down a little further -- although there is a slight piston-like motion there when I'm pulling or pushing with the handle. I may try jamming something in there with the metal tubes, like tin foil or cardboard to help them stay put. *Do you have any experience (or suggestions) regarding this kind of repair?*
@@jimreadey4837 To adjust the shovel's tip, you can think of the shovel like a see saw. If you lift the handle up, the metal edge will bite in the snow, but if you push the handle down, the metal edge will rise a little or a lot off the snow. To leave a small layer of snow, you can try different pressures on the handle to find the sweet spot. I try to scoop up as much snow as I can when I am gathering snow, but once I am moving the snow to the edge of driveway or to my backyard, I add some slight downwards pressure as I push, which lifts the metal edge off the ground a bit. Then when I get to the pile of snow, I push down a lot so that the edge comes off the ground and is angled so it can rise up the snow ramp as I push it up. If you look at the video, you can see me doing this a few times with each delivery.
@@vilramos, this is the tip I was trying to give to you. I thought, in your video, you said you were unable to get all the way down to the driveway surface, i.e., the shovel left a thin layer of snow. I was telling you how to tip the shovel so you could get more of a clean pass.
Oh, I get it! Thanks so much for the tip! I am sorry I misunderstood it as a question. You are right. In this video I was probably pushing down too much and the blade was slightly up and possibly because it was really icy snow and heavy too. Other days when it is like powder I can sometimes get to the bare ground underneath. Glad you love your sleigh shovel and best of luck repairing or replacing it!!!
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoy using the shovel too! I recently used it for a snow storm and it was fun to use. Quiet, no fumes and I get my exercise.
Jeff, glad it worked for you! A few years ago, I was using my snowblower to help my neighbors deal with end of drive snow/ice and the auger broke off from its axel. That was the record year for snow here in Boston a few years ago. I had it repaired but didn't get it until April, so I used the sleigh shovel all winter. My snowblower is now repaired, but I have never restarted it since that day. It just sits in my garage. :)
i bought a Garant Sleigh Shovel early this year It looks almost identical to the one you use in this video. I don't have a long drive at all its barely long enough to fit my truck in. However my drive is 4 car widths wide making shoveling difficult after I have been at work and come home only to find the plow has filled in the end of my drive. Using the sleigh shovel I was able to clear the end of the drive with only 12 scoops. It would take closer to 50 scoops with my shovel. The number one reason I like it over my little Sno Joe Blower is that it doesn't pitch the snow up into the wind where it gets blown right back in my face!
Thanks for the comment and I am glad it worked out well for you! I like it because it is easy on the back, just pushing and sliding the snow with no lifting or hurting your back. I have other how to videos on my channel. Merry Christmas!
@@vilramos It is very easy on the back, I was looking for an easier way to shovel snow on youtube and I found these "Scoop shovels" they looked interesting so I bought one. I think it was probably the best $50 I have ever spent in my llife and I am 59 years old. I need to make work easier LOL
To avoid blocked in driveway by city plows - shovel about 8-10 ft to the LEFT of your driveway when facing the street. Only way I know not to get snow bern I think it's called. I hate when they use to do it when I didn't know left of driveway technique. Little extra shoveling but it works!
Awesome! We are about to have some snow tonight. I took the sleigh shovel out so it is ready for action. I enjoy using it and it is easy to use and quiet. I have other videos in my how to and organic lawn care playlists that you may enjoy.
Preaching to the Choir here Mr. Ramos! The only thing I have found is I work in reverse. Beginning at the place I will pile most of the snow, and clearing to it. This avoids walking on the snow and packing it down. Have a safe winter Sir!
Thanks for posting this video! I love my sleigh shovel for the same reasons you do and now I can send the link to your video to show people how it works.
Thanks for the comment! Yes please share the video and hopefully it will convince some of your friend to try this sleigh shovel out. I made this video to help show how easy it was to use. I have other how to videos on my how to playlist that you may enjoy. Thanks!
Used this in the upper Michigan area when I was growing up. Thought it was so weird when I moved and saw people using shovels to clear their driveway. Now I have a 300 ft driveway and the scoop has cobwebs!
My driveway is four cars long so easier to deal with than 300 feet. I think for long driveways, a snow thrower might work better, but perhaps there are some who still use the sleigh shovel for long driveways? Please comment below. Thanks for watching.
Wonderfully efficient idea of efficiently using ones snow sleigh shovel in combination with ones ice traction spike cleats on each shoe. Love how you mound up the snow in order so that you can make snow ramp mountains to allow one to dump ones snow once one gets to the peak to dump off. Now when the snow has been mixed in with rain it becomes super dense and heavy in particular; in that instance one has to only take a partial snow/ice dump load; as its particularly hard to move more than about fifty pounds of snow load. Moreover another snow removal efficiency upgrade might be to buy a second snow sleigh shovel and use some hose clamps to clamp it directly parallel along side each other; as this will allow one to effectively double ones snow removal width from about twenty seven inches to fifty four inches in snow removal width; now that would literally nearly double ones snow removal capacity each time one has to traverse to dump ones snow load; and very effectively cut in half ones total effective snow removal job completion times. I brought my snow sleigh shovel from True Value hardware stores with the twenty seven inch width for about seventy dollars and am also considering parallel attaching two snow sleigh shovels in order to be able to effectively tackle up to fifty four inch snow removal widths each and every snow removal snow swipe taken to be dumped.
Thank you for the comments and the tips! I agree with your experience on heavy wet snow, where you need to take small loads at a time. Your idea for doubling up two shovels sounds great, should work well for light and fluffy snow and for driveways where you have the room to maneuver. Please share your experience with me when you do try this out. I would be interested to hear how you attached them and also whether it was easy to push the snow around in such a manner. Have a great day!
There is wider snowsleds, no need to clamp two together, and you as a user can choose how much you take in each load. But price often regulates how durable these are, the arms have a tendanse to bend and finally break at the point where they connect to the scoop. Also those with a flimsy metal edge in the front of the blade often bends upwards in the middle making the scraping uneven. Also clearing a yard that has no icelayer they can bind to the asphalt or concrete, but when you have an ice or snow layer these slid as easy as you want them to. Older ones with metal buckets often sticks to wet snow, this isn't a problem with plastic buckets. The only thing that some miss is the older ones tipping action. But a short yank often emties the bucket in the plastic ones! :)
I did this last year, but we got record amounts of snow and the banks on the sides and at the end of my driveway were so high I could no longer push the sleigh to the top to dump the snow. So I had to toss the snow with the shovel (lots of work) and when it was too high to do that, pack the snow in the shovel into snow balls and throw them to the top (slow and very inefficient). Anyone have any strategies to better deal with piling and banking the snow? I'm tempted to just hire a company to deal with it this year, but it was really good exercise.
Thanks for the comment. I know what you mean. We had record amounts of snow here in Boston one year and the banks were shoulder to head high. I created four snow/ice ramps with my shovel and would use the sleigh shovel to bring snow to the top of the pile and then walk back down. Slower and longer runs but more pushing than lifting so my back would survive.
@@vilramos Great idea, I'll have to try that. I remember near the end of the season I was so fed up I actually contemplated starting a bonfire at the top of the pile just to burn a hole through iit in which I could dump in more snow. Luckily, I didn't have any dry wood, LOL!
Hahaha! The bonfire sounds fun. Yea, try the ramp method out. In 2015 we had 110 inches of snow in Boston and the snow banks were very high. I used this shovel and the ramp method. Be sure to take lots of breaks to rest and avoid frostbite.
Hi! For my small driveway, I prefer the 24 inch because I can fit it between the car and the fence of my neighbor. It is also easier to push around and move. The 27 inch seems slightly larger and may cause problems, but if you get it, I am sure it will work fine too.
@@vilramos cool I thought maybe the 27 would get a little too heavy also so I'll probably get the 24. I prefer shovel over snowblower as well so I'm looking for things to save my back and shoulders
My sleigh shovel *broke* last evening. I was occasionally tipping it left and right to dump snow, and the two plastic ring areas at the top of the shovel snapped off. So, instead of there being two 2"-long supportive tubes at the top of the shovel to hold the metal handle tubes, there are two broken-plastic stubs. We tried epoxying it back together, but that didn't hold. It seems to work okay just to push the handle bars down a little further -- although there is a slight piston-like motion there when I'm pulling or pushing with the handle. I may try jamming something in there with the metal tubes, like tin foil or cardboard to help them stay put. *Does anyone have any experience (or suggestions) regarding this kind of repair?*
Thanks for the comment. I am sorry to hear that yours broke. I thought epoxy would help. Other ideas would be to use a drill to create a new hole through the plastic and the tube and then put a long bolt and a nut through the right sized hole. Or contact the company to see if they can just mail you the plastic piece and you can reuse the handle, which could be cheaper. Or buy a new shovel-unfortunately the prices are higher and marked up further in the winter. If you have a back up shovel wait till spring to buy a new one. In the meantime, try not to tip it right or left, just fling the snow or tip it forwards, perhaps the removal of the twist will work better. I have heard WD40 ok surface helps snow slip out, although I haven’t needed to do that myself.
I think a shovel like this is good for modest or small driveways but for a long driveway it may not make sense unless you have many people and many shovels doing it.
@@xianli6488 It all depends on how much snow and how long your drive way is. For my driveway, I have used this shovel and it works well. Takes me 30mins to 45 minutes depending on how much snow. Maybe longer for blizzards. If your home association driveway is long, then I would recommend you invest in a snowblower. At the ski resort I was at this weekend, they had this shovel for scooping snow near the lift areas, but for parking lot, they plow or use snow blowers for sure.
I picked one of these up for $10 from a gentleman that was moving. Used it here in New York when we got about 9 inches of snow. Went out twice. Both times clearing our driveway was easier than any time I used a conventional shovel in the past. And, I had no tightness or soreness in my back. At 58, I'm in relatively good shape, but had a hip replaced last June due to arthritis. I would pay the $68 these sell for. Without question.
That’s great that you had a good experience with it. Good idea to go out twice with a 9 inch snow storm. I used mine all the time for all kinds of snow storms and it works great.
@vilramos I had never heard of one. When I answered an ad for a smaller snowblower, the guy showed me the sleigh shovel, I was like, "What the heck?". Watched a couple videos and was sold. Never would have expected it to be that easy. I wish I had found it decades ago! Been telling my buddies about it, and how easy it makes snow removal. Glad you posted the video as well as the others I watched.
I used one of these to clear my 150 foot drive yesterday, of drifted snow from 3" to 12" deep. Took me less than an hour. And I'm 67 years old. :-) One tip I would mention is waxing the scoop with car wax, before use. I use Turtle Wax Wax & Dry, but I think about any wax should work. The wax makes the scoop slick, and lets the snow slide off the scoop better, making it easier to unload. I wax both inside & outside.
Letting the shovel cool down to ambient temperature before starting out does wonders. If you start with it "warm", the snow that sticks to it never releases until it melts off, but if you start cold, the snow doesn't stick at all.
I agree , it's exercise , outdoors in fresh air , at your own pace without back injury or noise . If you need to move snow any distance by shovel this is the way to save time and your back. I recommend your method of moving the snow backwards and sideways so that you don't pack the snow that you want to remove .
Thanks for watching! Do you have any unique methods of clearing snow off your driveway? Please share in the comments below. I would love to hear other ideas. I have other how-to videos on my channel that you may like. Thanks.
Thanks for making this video, Vil! I have a comment and a question:
1. I find if I lift the handle and tip the metal edge down, it actually digs down pretty well -- and doesn't leave that thin layer of snow you mentioned. Of course, the smoother the ground surface, the more true this is.
2. My sleigh shovel *broke* last evening. I was occasionally tipping it left and right to dump snow, and the two plastic ring areas at the top of the shovel snapped off. So, instead of there being two 2"-long supportive tubes at the top of the shovel to hold the metal handle tubes, there are two broken-plastic stubs.
We tried epoxying it back together, but that didn't hold. It seems to work okay just to push the handle bars down a little further -- although there is a slight piston-like motion there when I'm pulling or pushing with the handle. I may try jamming something in there with the metal tubes, like tin foil or cardboard to help them stay put.
*Do you have any experience (or suggestions) regarding this kind of repair?*
@@jimreadey4837 To adjust the shovel's tip, you can think of the shovel like a see saw. If you lift the handle up, the metal edge will bite in the snow, but if you push the handle down, the metal edge will rise a little or a lot off the snow. To leave a small layer of snow, you can try different pressures on the handle to find the sweet spot. I try to scoop up as much snow as I can when I am gathering snow, but once I am moving the snow to the edge of driveway or to my backyard, I add some slight downwards pressure as I push, which lifts the metal edge off the ground a bit. Then when I get to the pile of snow, I push down a lot so that the edge comes off the ground and is angled so it can rise up the snow ramp as I push it up. If you look at the video, you can see me doing this a few times with each delivery.
@@vilramos, this is the tip I was trying to give to you. I thought, in your video, you said you were unable to get all the way down to the driveway surface, i.e., the shovel left a thin layer of snow. I was telling you how to tip the shovel so you could get more of a clean pass.
Oh, I get it! Thanks so much for the tip! I am sorry I misunderstood it as a question. You are right. In this video I was probably pushing down too much and the blade was slightly up and possibly because it was really icy snow and heavy too. Other days when it is like powder I can sometimes get to the bare ground underneath. Glad you love your sleigh shovel and best of luck repairing or replacing it!!!
it grabs a great volume of snow, slide it and dump it, beautiful !!! the front edge can get down to the surface and not get caught on cracks !!!
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoy using the shovel too! I recently used it for a snow storm and it was fun to use. Quiet, no fumes and I get my exercise.
On e again, thank you! My small snowblower was clogging this morning, but the sleigh shovel was awesome
Jeff, glad it worked for you! A few years ago, I was using my snowblower to help my neighbors deal with end of drive snow/ice and the auger broke off from its axel. That was the record year for snow here in Boston a few years ago. I had it repaired but didn't get it until April, so I used the sleigh shovel all winter. My snowblower is now repaired, but I have never restarted it since that day. It just sits in my garage. :)
@@vilramos drain gas and start it once in a while or the old gas will make problems brother!!
@@johnnyversaci7091 Thanks for the tip.
i bought a Garant Sleigh Shovel early this year It looks almost identical to the one you use in this video. I don't have a long drive at all its barely long enough to fit my truck in. However my drive is 4 car widths wide making shoveling difficult after I have been at work and come home only to find the plow has filled in the end of my drive. Using the sleigh shovel I was able to clear the end of the drive with only 12 scoops. It would take closer to 50 scoops with my shovel. The number one reason I like it over my little Sno Joe Blower is that it doesn't pitch the snow up into the wind where it gets blown right back in my face!
Thanks for the comment and I am glad it worked out well for you! I like it because it is easy on the back, just pushing and sliding the snow with no lifting or hurting your back. I have other how to videos on my channel. Merry Christmas!
@@vilramos It is very easy on the back, I was looking for an easier way to shovel snow on youtube and I found these "Scoop shovels" they looked interesting so I bought one. I think it was probably the best $50 I have ever spent in my llife and I am 59 years old. I need to make work easier LOL
To avoid blocked in driveway by city plows - shovel about 8-10 ft to the LEFT of your driveway when facing the street. Only way I know not to get snow bern I think it's called. I hate when they use to do it when I didn't know left of driveway technique. Little extra shoveling but it works!
Thanks! Great idea! I have noticed when I clear the sidewalk I get less snow blocking my driveway.
Good job you have taught me how to use mine. Blessings
Great! Glad to help out. Let me know how it works for you. I have other how to videos on my channel that you may enjoy.
I have the same one for so many years. I love this thing.
Awesome! We are about to have some snow tonight. I took the sleigh shovel out so it is ready for action. I enjoy using it and it is easy to use and quiet. I have other videos in my how to and organic lawn care playlists that you may enjoy.
yes it really works, I don't wait till the snow is finish or else it will be to heavy on my second one used it for many yrs
Preaching to the Choir here Mr. Ramos!
The only thing I have found is I work in reverse.
Beginning at the place I will pile most of the snow, and clearing to it.
This avoids walking on the snow and packing it down.
Have a safe winter Sir!
Thanks for the tip Wayne! Great comment.
Thanks for posting this video! I love my sleigh shovel for the same reasons you do and now I can send the link to your video to show people how it works.
Thanks for the comment! Yes please share the video and hopefully it will convince some of your friend to try this sleigh shovel out. I made this video to help show how easy it was to use. I have other how to videos on my how to playlist that you may enjoy. Thanks!
Used this in the upper Michigan area when I was growing up. Thought it was so weird when I moved and saw people using shovels to clear their driveway. Now I have a 300 ft driveway and the scoop has cobwebs!
My driveway is four cars long so easier to deal with than 300 feet. I think for long driveways, a snow thrower might work better, but perhaps there are some who still use the sleigh shovel for long driveways? Please comment below. Thanks for watching.
So that’s how it works. Thanks a lot
You're welcome!
Wonderfully efficient idea of efficiently using ones snow sleigh shovel in combination with ones ice traction spike cleats on each shoe.
Love how you mound up the snow in order so that you can make snow ramp mountains to allow one to dump ones snow once one gets to the peak to dump off.
Now when the snow has been mixed in with rain it becomes super dense and heavy in particular; in that instance one has to only take a partial snow/ice dump load; as its particularly hard to move more than about fifty pounds of snow load.
Moreover another snow removal efficiency upgrade might be to buy a second snow sleigh shovel and use some hose clamps to clamp it directly parallel along side each other; as this will allow one to effectively double ones snow removal width from about twenty seven inches to fifty four inches in snow removal width;
now that would literally nearly double ones snow removal capacity each time one has to traverse to dump ones snow load; and very effectively cut in half ones total effective snow removal job completion times.
I brought my snow sleigh shovel from True Value hardware stores with the twenty seven inch width for about seventy dollars and am also considering parallel attaching two snow sleigh shovels in order to be able to effectively tackle up to fifty four inch snow removal widths each and every snow removal snow swipe taken to be dumped.
Thank you for the comments and the tips! I agree with your experience on heavy wet snow, where you need to take small loads at a time. Your idea for doubling up two shovels sounds great, should work well for light and fluffy snow and for driveways where you have the room to maneuver. Please share your experience with me when you do try this out. I would be interested to hear how you attached them and also whether it was easy to push the snow around in such a manner. Have a great day!
I hope you will update us on your method and process of using two snow sleighs together.
There is wider snowsleds, no need to clamp two together, and you as a user can choose how much you take in each load. But price often regulates how durable these are, the arms have a tendanse to bend and finally break at the point where they connect to the scoop. Also those with a flimsy metal edge in the front of the blade often bends upwards in the middle making the scraping uneven. Also clearing a yard that has no icelayer they can bind to the asphalt or concrete, but when you have an ice or snow layer these slid as easy as you want them to. Older ones with metal buckets often sticks to wet snow, this isn't a problem with plastic buckets. The only thing that some miss is the older ones tipping action. But a short yank often emties the bucket in the plastic ones! :)
Talked me into it!
Thanks for watching and for trying out the shovel. Please let me know how your experience goes if you have a moment.
Just bought one today. Looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the video.
Hope you enjoy it!
I did this last year, but we got record amounts of snow and the banks on the sides and at the end of my driveway were so high I could no longer push the sleigh to the top to dump the snow. So I had to toss the snow with the shovel (lots of work) and when it was too high to do that, pack the snow in the shovel into snow balls and throw them to the top (slow and very inefficient). Anyone have any strategies to better deal with piling and banking the snow?
I'm tempted to just hire a company to deal with it this year, but it was really good exercise.
Thanks for the comment. I know what you mean. We had record amounts of snow here in Boston one year and the banks were shoulder to head high. I created four snow/ice ramps with my shovel and would use the sleigh shovel to bring snow to the top of the pile and then walk back down. Slower and longer runs but more pushing than lifting so my back would survive.
@@vilramos Great idea, I'll have to try that. I remember near the end of the season I was so fed up I actually contemplated starting a bonfire at the top of the pile just to burn a hole through iit in which I could dump in more snow. Luckily, I didn't have any dry wood, LOL!
Hahaha! The bonfire sounds fun. Yea, try the ramp method out. In 2015 we had 110 inches of snow in Boston and the snow banks were very high. I used this shovel and the ramp method. Be sure to take lots of breaks to rest and avoid frostbite.
Should I get 24 inch or 27 inch.
Hi! For my small driveway, I prefer the 24 inch because I can fit it between the car and the fence of my neighbor. It is also easier to push around and move. The 27 inch seems slightly larger and may cause problems, but if you get it, I am sure it will work fine too.
@@vilramos cool I thought maybe the 27 would get a little too heavy also so I'll probably get the 24. I prefer shovel over snowblower as well so I'm looking for things to save my back and shoulders
My sleigh shovel *broke* last evening. I was occasionally tipping it left and right to dump snow, and the two plastic ring areas at the top of the shovel snapped off. So, instead of there being two 2"-long supportive tubes at the top of the shovel to hold the metal handle tubes, there are two broken-plastic stubs.
We tried epoxying it back together, but that didn't hold. It seems to work okay just to push the handle bars down a little further -- although there is a slight piston-like motion there when I'm pulling or pushing with the handle. I may try jamming something in there with the metal tubes, like tin foil or cardboard to help them stay put.
*Does anyone have any experience (or suggestions) regarding this kind of repair?*
Thanks for the comment. I am sorry to hear that yours broke. I thought epoxy would help. Other ideas would be to use a drill to create a new hole through the plastic and the tube and then put a long bolt and a nut through the right sized hole. Or contact the company to see if they can just mail you the plastic piece and you can reuse the handle, which could be cheaper. Or buy a new shovel-unfortunately the prices are higher and marked up further in the winter. If you have a back up shovel wait till spring to buy a new one. In the meantime, try not to tip it right or left, just fling the snow or tip it forwards, perhaps the removal of the twist will work better. I have heard WD40 ok surface helps snow slip out, although I haven’t needed to do that myself.
Thanks,@@vilramos, I appreciate your suggestions.
Is this good for shoveling long pathways like a townhouse association driveway if don't use a snow blower?
I think a shovel like this is good for modest or small driveways but for a long driveway it may not make sense unless you have many people and many shovels doing it.
Yeah because none of my neighbors will really want help out? Wat u think about a snowblower or electric shovel?
@@xianli6488 It all depends on how much snow and how long your drive way is. For my driveway, I have used this shovel and it works well. Takes me 30mins to 45 minutes depending on how much snow. Maybe longer for blizzards. If your home association driveway is long, then I would recommend you invest in a snowblower. At the ski resort I was at this weekend, they had this shovel for scooping snow near the lift areas, but for parking lot, they plow or use snow blowers for sure.
Okay thanks for the advice and have u heard about deicers for driveways?
Bro you cleared that driveway so half assed lol
Too much work for me !!
I picked one of these up for $10 from a gentleman that was moving. Used it here in New York when we got about 9 inches of snow. Went out twice. Both times clearing our driveway was easier than any time I used a conventional shovel in the past. And, I had no tightness or soreness in my back. At 58, I'm in relatively good shape, but had a hip replaced last June due to arthritis. I would pay the $68 these sell for. Without question.
That’s great that you had a good experience with it. Good idea to go out twice with a 9 inch snow storm. I used mine all the time for all kinds of snow storms and it works great.
@vilramos I had never heard of one. When I answered an ad for a smaller snowblower, the guy showed me the sleigh shovel, I was like, "What the heck?". Watched a couple videos and was sold. Never would have expected it to be that easy. I wish I had found it decades ago! Been telling my buddies about it, and how easy it makes snow removal. Glad you posted the video as well as the others I watched.
Thanks for the comments! I can’t believe you got one for 10 dollars! I am glad you enjoy using it.
I used one of these to clear my 150 foot drive yesterday, of drifted snow from 3" to 12" deep. Took me less than an hour. And I'm 67 years old. :-)
One tip I would mention is waxing the scoop with car wax, before use. I use Turtle Wax Wax & Dry, but I think about any wax should work. The wax makes the scoop slick, and lets the snow slide off the scoop better, making it easier to unload. I wax both inside & outside.
Thanks for the tip. That is great to hear how you cleared a long driveway with the sleigh shovel! It is easy to use. Glad you are using it!
Can also use cooking spray on shovels too - no sticking. Heard car ceramic stuff works too but haven't tried it.
I bought a can of spray on silicone, works real nice!
Letting the shovel cool down to ambient temperature before starting out does wonders. If you start with it "warm", the snow that sticks to it never releases until it melts off, but if you start cold, the snow doesn't stick at all.
Hooray for wisdom! 👍
I have he same shovel. It is really wonderful. In heavy snow also, you will have no back pain.
I agree , it's exercise , outdoors in fresh air , at your own pace without back injury or noise .
If you need to move snow any distance by shovel this is the way to save time and your back.
I recommend your method of moving the snow backwards and sideways so that you don't pack the snow that you want to remove .
Thank you for the comment! I'm glad that you like the shovel too.
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