Hands especially. The shoulder was giving me some crap, but the hands, this is the first time of this since my arthritis got this bad, and they really hated it. In part because the weather before this was nice enough there was enough residual heat in the pavement that the snow in contact was melting a bit. Which meant whether I was using the broom to push some or the shovel to lift and move, it kept freezing on them and I'd have to shake/beat them off. That got old real fast.
So this morning everything that had some slight melting when the sun came out yesterday refroze, and it's like a skating rink out there on the streets. I'd go out for an emergency, but that's it. It's supposed to get to the low 20's today, and that and traffic will help.
So indoors it is today.
2 comments:
Don't know how much snow you get or how often but take a look at a power broom; they're either 2-stroke, 120V or battery. Basically a rotating paddled drum that throws snow. Not as massive as a blower & it'll handle a few inches of snow. It'd probably work on leaves,dirt & grass clippings too. The snow we get up here is super dry so I'll just tackle it with my leaf blower if there's only a couple inches.
Power broom I hadn't heard of, I'll have to look into that.
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