electric snow shovel rec

[Fritz]

I don't care if corded or not. Outlets in both places I'd use.
12 to 16" is fine. Doesn't need to throw but 3'.
No more than 15A.
Light weight.
Got to prepare for the day when shoveling is no longer exercise, but pain.

[macphanatic]

Look at the Snow Joe shovels. I've heard good things about them.

[Fritz]

yea, was thinking them. We have their pressure washer and power tree saw. Both been good.

[Robert M]

Fritz,

Looks like Toro still sells the corded electric Powercurve 1800.



I bought an older version of it in the 2000s. Still have it at my office and still does a great job when dealing with lighter snow even as deep as 10"+. Looks like they made some improvements in the newest version.

Search the forum for my many posts about the Toro electric model.

Can't speak for cordless battery operated models from competitors like SnowJoe but while they've no doubt have improved tremendously over the years, I bet they still can't do as good a job as my trust corded electric Powercurve.

Robert

[Bernie]

I have an old CORDED electric Worx snowblower. You have to push it. Push it. Push.

If it were cordless I wold still have to push it.

I still use it when there is enough snow to bother but I would, will not buy another that I have to PUSH.

[mattkime]

I’d put it off unless this is an impending reality for you. As best I can tell electric shovels are often more work than a regular shovel for smaller amounts of snow and struggle with larger snow falls. This tech keeps getting better every year.

I’ll eventually get an ego single stage battery operated model.

[Fritz]

mattkime wrote:
I’d put it off unless this is an impending reality for you.

good point.
after all, it's global warming, not chillin'.
This is the 1st significant snow of the season.
It took 2 hrs over a couple days to clear what we need.
No back pain. So good.

[Speedy]

I like Toro for snowthrowers. Even gas ones are light enough to hang on the garage wall. They do a good job. Snow shovels, not so much.

For warm winter folks, a snowblower has a slow moving horizontal auger to gather the snow and and feed a high speed impeller to expel it. A snow thrower only has an auger that turns at high speed which expels the snow through a chute. A snow shovel is a small snow thrower about the size of a number two square nosed shovel.

Electric snow thrower from Northern:

[Robert M]

Matt,

There is a huge difference between an electric shovel and an electric snowblower like the Toro Powercurve 1800. They are entirely different classes of machine. Definitely do not make the mistake of thinking a Powercurve 1800 is more work than a shovel for light snow and even heavier/higher amounts of snowfall. Far from.

Robert

[JoeM]

I have an older Toro corded snow shovel, probably the first one they came out with, along with a 4 stage Sears motorized snow blower and a smaller Sears 2 stage gas push snow blower. The snow shovel can handle about an 8” snowfall but the thing to keep in mind with shovels, whether battery or corded, is that they can only throw snow ahead of them, not to the sides like a snow thrower/ blower that has a chute you can point off to either side.