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A Sheet Metal Fabricator's Nifty Snow Shovel Hack

By Rain Noe - February 16

in Tools & Craft

Lares Blechwarenfabrikation is a German fabricator that turns metal sheet goods--tin and stainless steel--into premium bakeware. Their stock-in-trade are items like this:

However, on their Instagram they posted a photo after a winter snowstorm at the company HQ in Waibstadt, Germany. And it looks to me like they've used their sheet-metal-fabricating skills to produce a snow shovel with a nifty design feature:

It's possible I'm mistaken and that the shovel is store-bought, but I have a feeling a company engineer rigged it up. (And if s/he's reading this, I appreciate your design!)

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david copeland

9 months ago

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Sorry - is this meant to be innovative?

There's nothing here that one cannot do without HOW you shovel the snow. Want to scoop snow to one side or one direction? Either angle your shovel *just* a little or leave an edge of your shovel off the edge of the snow, and the snow piles in the other direction.

Hiving to pull out a pin to adjust would never happen. what a pain it would be if you wanted to go from angled shoveling to shoveling straight ahead to clean up.

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Scott Gibson

9 months ago

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Maybe OK to coax a bit of frost off your front walk (as in photos). For anything more than that you'll want a real snow shovel, and this is definitely not it!

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Alan Nomoto

9 months ago

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I get a perversive pleasure out of using things out of their intended use. It only snows 2 or 3 times a year here but my snow shovel is the busiest tool in the yard by far. Leaves on pavement, grass clippings, even a giant dustpan. This handheld sized grader blade will make short work of leaves on a driveway. German model in teutonic raw aluminum. American model in construction yellow.

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Chris Haar

9 months ago

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And a shovel like this is only good for a minimal amount of dusting on a sidewalk/driveway. Anything more than 1/4", and this shovel is worthless.

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