I guess it's a seller's market now.

[johnridley]

I tried to sell our snowblower a few months ago, but just got hagglers that wanted me to give it away. Today I posted it for sale again (on the discussion board at work) and it got bought in a few minutes.

Then I went out and shoveled the driveway.

I know for a fact that I cleared it way faster with a shovel than I could have with a blower, and it's probably something like 1/10th the work I do every day to ride my bike to work. Our driveway is about 80 feet long. It took I think about 20 minutes to clear.

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[drsulak.livejournal.com]

My primary tool is a "Yooper Scooper", designed for scooping about a 1/2cu yd at a time. I can shovel my driveway with it very quickly.

Yet, I broke down this year and got a snow blower. Our first snowstorm was a foot of wet heavy snow, on top of 2 inches of slush. Then the temp plunged. The snow immediately froze to the metal - it was like shoveling sticky clay. Sadly, I had to admit defeat...

But, anything less than 8 inches of snow, the Yooper Scooper is faster.