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He wasn't having great success clearing a little walkway at a bus stop either. Too gay to pick up a shovel with your noodle arms? Be quicker and cleaner any day of the week, doesn't wake up the whole neighborhood.

What used to be a simple affair of a man and his shovel now needs muh technology and gives worse results.

He wasn't having great success clearing a little walkway at a bus stop either. Too gay to pick up a shovel with your noodle arms? Be quicker and cleaner any day of the week, doesn't wake up the whole neighborhood. What used to be a simple affair of a man and his shovel now needs muh technology and gives worse results.

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[–] • 1 pt

Depends heavily on snow type. Wet snow, no, shovel only. But my area tends to get fluffy powder quite often. When we get that stuff, the blower is amazing. It clears it down to the concrete with no effort. Just walk and blow. just gotta gauge what'll work.

[–] • 1 pt

This is going to come down to 2 variables: 1. The power of the leaf blower and 2. The consistency/type of snow

A powerful gas powered backpack unit can have hurricane force winds, with the strongest units being able to spin the operator if they are standing on ice and pull the trigger all the way. Such a unit will make VERY quick work and get rid of ALL of the snow, even the snow that hides in cracks or edges.

The kind of snow it wont do much on is when the snow is heavy, wet and sticky. The shovel will win any day. The other kind of snow is packed snow, when it gets thick enough and walked or driven over, you can get a nice thick layer of ice at the bottom and need to pull out the ice pick or axe to break it up into chunks before being able to move it.

Given that this was a government worker, I'm suspecting the leaf blower and a less powerful electric model and probably one of those light weight hand held units that are a complete waste of money.

[–] • 2 pts

This is going to come down to one thing. Using the correct tool for the job.

Show shovel cares not about the type of snow. Your arms might.

[–] • 0 pt

Isn't that what it always comes down to? Using the right tool for the right job.

But yeah, those electric blowers don't seem to work on much more than leaves, pine needles or grass clippings, and it's 50/50 if it'll work if they're wet. Don't last long, either. The batteries on these things just aren't that great for actually using them for any length of time from what I've seen. Just like most "hi-tech" equipment that you carry from what I've seen. The only decent piece of purely electrical equipment I've ever owned is an electric weed wacker with a 40-volt battery on it. And even then, it doesn't last long at all, but at least it does what I need it to do, especially with the metal bladed head.