It’s pretty heavy, weighing in at 16 pounds, but like other heavy models it has a pair of wheels so you can push it most of the time.

If you’re up to some light shoveling, and not usually faced with heavy snow, a traditional snow shovel may still be a better solution, particularly if it has an ergonomic design to reduce bending. The two supporting wheels are absolutely a great help where it makes the unit super light weight to push. So, just got the 16" power shovel last night and we just got snow and ice on top of it all day so had a good test case to try the unit. His product guides, how-to articles, and feature stories can be found in such publications as Bob Vila, Angi, U.

Five tip profiles designed for a broad range of applications; superior penetration and lip protection with hammerless shroud system. Electric snow shovels can handle snow banks around 4-8 inches high, depending on their clearing depth. For most homeowners, if a snowblower is in your budget, even a small electric one, get one of those. At a minimum you will get interruption or very likely you will destroy your auger which is rigid brittle looking plastic instead of a hard rubber which the bigger cousins of this design uses in the larger units with a chute.

The digging phase consists of crowding the dipper into the bank, hoisting the dipper to fill it, then retracting the full dipper from the bank.

Faster swing times resulting from reduced swing inertia of lighter front-end plus improved left-hand line-of-sight with deck-mounted crowd machinery that reduces components on the boom that would impede visibility. Easy to assemble (20minutes) and does a very good job of throwing the sidewalk snow on my city sidewalks. Wet snow is the worst case scenario for electric snow shovels, so the artificial snow is a tough test. You won’t have to carry their weight, but the lighter models aren’t self propelled, so you’ll need to push them along.

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