I did a search in this area and also in the Tool Time Forum and didn't see the topic covered, so here is my question:
I just moved from sea level to a small California mountain community. We are at between 5000-6000 ft. of elevation so we get a little snow each year. Yesterday we received about 5 inches.
I was at Home Depot a few days ago and they didn't have any snow shovels for sale. The snow is already melting but I want to be ready for the next time. The streets are plowed so I just need to shovel my concrete walkway and driveway, especially the apron where the snow gets built up from the city snowplow.
I am seeing a lot of 18" wide shovels for sale at Lowes and Home Depot but that doesn't seem wide enough to me. Also a lot of fiberglass or plastic shovels. I understand the weight savings aspect but are those tough enough to hack through some frozen over berms at the end of my driveway ? Being that my home is at about 6000' elevation I also don't want to get a heart attack trying to shovel more weight and volume than I can handle so maybe an 18" plastic shovel makes sense ? I lived in Buffalo as a kid but living in SouCal for more than a half century has done a pretty good job of erasing my memory of the chore of shoveling the driveway.
What are you guys who just need a light duty snow shovel using ?
I just moved from sea level to a small California mountain community. We are at between 5000-6000 ft. of elevation so we get a little snow each year. Yesterday we received about 5 inches.
I was at Home Depot a few days ago and they didn't have any snow shovels for sale. The snow is already melting but I want to be ready for the next time. The streets are plowed so I just need to shovel my concrete walkway and driveway, especially the apron where the snow gets built up from the city snowplow.
I am seeing a lot of 18" wide shovels for sale at Lowes and Home Depot but that doesn't seem wide enough to me. Also a lot of fiberglass or plastic shovels. I understand the weight savings aspect but are those tough enough to hack through some frozen over berms at the end of my driveway ? Being that my home is at about 6000' elevation I also don't want to get a heart attack trying to shovel more weight and volume than I can handle so maybe an 18" plastic shovel makes sense ? I lived in Buffalo as a kid but living in SouCal for more than a half century has done a pretty good job of erasing my memory of the chore of shoveling the driveway.
What are you guys who just need a light duty snow shovel using ?