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Author Topic: Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?  (Read 1422 times)

Izzy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Stirlingshire
Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?
« on: February 03, 2018, 10:37:05 pm »
For years I have shovelled snow with an ordinary steel headed shovel. I found it on a roundabout.....presumably it had fallen off a vehicle. It has a lovely worn wooden handle but is heavy and very dry snow freezes to the blade which isn’t smooth anymore.


I have decided to invest in either an aluminium grain shovel or a plastic snow shovel with a metal reinforced edge. Which do you think would be the better tool for the job?

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2018, 07:49:44 am »
The grain shovel will be of more use at other times of the year.  I use mine for emptying the muck trailer after doing the horses fields.  I have broken the plastic snow ones trying to do other jobs.

chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • Gascony, France
Re: Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2018, 07:53:48 am »
We have a 35 year old plastic snow shovel which works well on the rare occasions it is used. As you say it does need a metal edge as ours is wearing out. But I am suspicious of the quality of modern plastic because of the practice of adding reclaimed material to the melt. A 10% addition results in a 50% reduction in the material properties, so you could end up with a brittle product which readily disintegrates.


I'd go for the aluminium.

Backinwellies

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Re: Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2018, 07:57:08 am »
If I really needed a snow shovel enough to test metal vs plastic down here in S wales..... I think you would be needing a snow plough up there Izzy  :roflanim:   so sorry cant help
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Glencairn

  • Joined Jun 2017
  • Dumfriesshire
Re: Snow shovel - plastic or aluminium?
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2018, 08:21:06 am »

 

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