Pretty hard to use if you’re disabled.
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compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
What was wrong with a $10 shovel?
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
The $10 shovel doesn’t clear the driveway for you…
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Yes but no but yes.. but give me money!
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
100 people die in the US every year from shoveling snow. Not everyone is fit for the team, and yet if you own property you are almost required to.
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yeah, that’s fair. Snow blowers as a personal purchase have always felt silly to me, since if needed you could always pay for a shovel/plow service that just come when it snows, so you don’t have an expensive appliance sitting around that might barely be used. Now I’m wondering what the cost comparison would look like between the two. I suppose it depends on how much snow you usually get
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I see this as something that makes the services more affordable.
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That would be a great application for it! Okay, I’m swayed in the other direction. For stuff like schools, churches, etc, I can see it making sense. Especially if the machines aren’t hard to maintain.