Snow Shovelling Technique - are you a Pusher or a Tosser?

[annasuave]

So here I am laid up with a sore back today. I blame the snow-shoveling! Apparently, the Canadian Chiropractic Society recommends that we push snow aside with a push style-shovel. Me, I've always been more a of a tosser.

1. What kind of shoveler are you? and
2. How in the heck do you clear 30 cm of snow without tossing it somewhere?

[STeeLy]

I'm a pusher and a tosser...

I push it to the side and then toss it up...

[burn_this_city]

I'm a condo owner

[Ice]

I live in California, I only need a leaf blower in winter.

[Winsor_Pilates]

tosser, and today is the most snow I've ever seen in Vancouver. It looks like Calgary here!

[GoinAllTheWay]

100% toss. I use a snowblower

[Red Ice Player]

Tosser, but do it while its light and fluffy.

[Temporary_User]

I'm a pusher and a tosser.
A lover and a fighter.
A puffer and a passer.

[bigalspratty]

Originally Posted by STeeLy

I'm a pusher and a tosser...

I push it to the side and then toss it up...

Im in this boat.

[algernon]

When there's 6 inches or less,I like pushing briskly like a road grader when the snow is light and fluffy. 4 passes and my public walk is done. As for the snow, I just direct it to the street, then pack it down a couple of times with my truck so people aren't getting stuck.

[Dan02]

push when i'm shoveling with the right hand on top, toss when i am shoveling with the left hand on top.

[metallicat]

How can chiropractic society expect you to be a pusher past the first snowfall of the year? Too much build-up makes it impossible to just push the snow somewhere.

[ricoFlame]

both, whatever gets the job done.

[Russic]

I'm a procrastinator, which means that about 100 people walk by my house packing down the snow so I become a chipper and then shortly thereafter I become a swearer.

[photon]

Paysomeoneelser

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

thats what chinooks are for.

I destest shovelling. I let my pregnant wife shovel becauseI refused. I even had my mother in law shovelling around christmas once year because it drove her nuts

Although I do break down once or twice a year. Today was one of those days. eventually I will teach my kids about responsibility by delegating it.

I should point out too - I have no sidewalk, just my driveway and walk.

[Incinerator]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I'm a condo owner

I'm a smirker, whenever my friends complain about shoveling I trot out this line haha...

[Rifleman]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

I'm a pusher and a tosser.
A lover and a fighter.
A puffer and a passer.

...a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker.

[MoneyGuy]

Neither. I have a wife who loves to shovel snow.








Yeah, right. I wish.

[Dion]

I don't have too. I live in a homeowners association community where we pay to have our snow shoveled. The guys were using a bobcat to clean everyones driveways.