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January 2, 2018

Style: 30-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

This is a snow pusher. It's big, heavy and not at all suited for shoveling. 30" is a lot to wrangle and if you are in doubt, order the 24" model. It's steel and will rust if not taken care of. It's made in Canada. I love it.

I bought the 30" snow pusher to clear our pond for winter skating. I have had the 24" pusher for over 10 years, but wanted a new, perfectly straight edge for keeping our skating pond clear. My 10 year old pusher has worn unevenly over the years and the corners became bent after years of shoveling the driveway and sidewalks.

I was a little surprised at the price, compared to the pricing in our local hardware store, which was about half the price here. Unfortunately none of the hardware stores within 50 miles of my house had these in stock or even orderable. I was also concerned after reading reviews that some shovels were delivered bent. I now understand the price and I believe that Amazon has solved the issue with the shovels being bent during shipping.
My shovel arrived double-boxed. The first one was a 36" x 4" x 12" box around the blade, and other an enormous box around the shovel and other box. The outer box was at least 5' x 3' x 1', and the cost to ship such a large item is clearly responsible for the high price. It arrived in perfect condition.

The first thing I did after unboxing the shovel was to treat the blade with DuPont Teflon Snow Repellent to keep snow from sticking to the blade. On first use, the shovel performed perfectly while clearing the pond. If I bear down on it while pushing, it does a bit of resurfacing/scraping of the ice while clearing the snow. When done, I take it inside, dry off the blade and treat it with a quick coating of Fluid Film. The working edge of the blade is bare steel from contact with the surfaces being cleared, and needs to be protected to keep it from rusting. If I take good care of this, it will probably last forever.

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Fahillion Tech

Worked So Well That I Bought a Second

December 18, 2017

Style: 24-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

We live in Eastern Idaho and we have already gotten a lot of use out of this snow pusher. It is super durable and the snow just falls off the blade which helps with pushing a lot of snow. The handle is comfortable (I'm 5'9") for my size and it is lightweight for almost anyone to use. My kids have used it and have had no complaints.

Update (Jan 3, 2018): I liked the first one of these so much that I bought a second so my kids can use one while I am using the other.

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Nicki

Pretty solidly built shovel

December 31, 2017

Style: 24-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

Pretty solidly built shovel. Only downside is awkward angle that blade is attached to handle, tilted more than other similar shovels I have used, making it more difficult to actually scoop any snow. Works fine to bulldoze snow off the end of driveway if snow isn't too deep/heavy.

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Robert E. Malone

Good quality, but HEAVY.

January 3, 2014

Style: 30-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

I had an aluminum bladed pusher and it is essentially scrap now as the aluminum has worn down and bent rendering the edge useless for scraping. I snowblow the driveway and I wanted a blade to clean up the leftover snow after blowing leaving as clean a surface as possible to avoid icing. So I purposefully went with a steel blade hoping for a good strong straight edge and that the weight would actually provide some momentum when scraping. However it proved to be a bit of a Catch-22. I am six feet tall and about 230 lbs and I can just about handle it. It scrapes well until I hid compacted snow from a vehicles tire treads then it can't cut it and you come to a sudden halt. There is no way my 5' 3" Wife could use it at all. I will likely by an 18" version for her or a poly blade. There was one small paint flaw on my shovel blade, which is of course a corrosion concern for a steel blade. I will touch it up when the season is over.

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thePolishGuy

Metal blade snow pusher of high quality clears your driveway FAST !

November 30, 2013

Style: 30-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

This snow pusher combined with you makes a formidable snow eating machine. A hard to find quality shovel that I am so glad I found. I have a long wide driveway. Normally, I plow it, but when there is only an inch or two of snow my tractor's blade will leaves a little snow that gets packed and even icy. Here in western Massachusetts, it seems the big box stores as well as the hardware stores only sell shovels made with plastic blades. Most of these are made by the same manufacturer. I can at best get a season and a half out of them before they wear out. I was really pleased to find that on the Amazon website they had such a great snow pusher. The Garant shovel is a really heavy duty man's shovel that will last for many years. It is a throw back to when things were made to last and repairable. The only thing that I did do to it was sand down the diameter of the top of the wood handle so as a D grip handle from the old shovel would fit onto it. It gave me a better grip when you are pushing snow plus as you come to the edge of the blacktop, using the D handle gives just enough leverage to flip the snow up and over the bank. I also spayed the blade with silicone which definitely
keeps wet snow from clinging to the blade.
I would certainly buy another of these again, but don't believe I will have to for a long time as it is made so ruggedly. The 30" size clears a driveway fast, but is heavy and will give you quite a workout. With that in mind you might want to consider the smaller 24" size depending on your condition.

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Gigi

Super heavy but does work

December 31, 2017

Style: 24-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

I don't like the weight of this snow pusher. Too heavy! But it works. I can scrape the snow that stuck on my driveway easily. It is a good tool. I only wish it could be lighter.

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MI5

but it does a great job clearing the snow and I need the exercise ...

December 1, 2014

Style: 24-Inch Steel BladeVerified Purchase

This pusher is quite heavy, but it does a great job clearing the snow and I need the exercise anyway. I'm in West Michigan on a corner lot with a decent sized driveway, so I have a fair bit of snow to clear. My driveway/sidewalk is pretty old with some cracks and varying surface heights, but I can easily clean it with some caution (push from high side to low side and tip the front of the blade up a little at joints). I've found that pushing slowly will curl the snow forward rather than shooting if off the top behind the pusher. The blade is heavy duty, and I've jammed it into some higher cracks a few times with no noticeable damage. I'm sure this will last a few seasons.

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