AVALANCHE! AVA300 Original Roof Snow Removal System With 17-Inch Wide Cutting Head & 16-Foot Quick Connect Light Weight Fiberglass Handle

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I live in lake effect snow country here in upstate New York.
The Avalanche arrived today via UPS. After a few minutes of easy assembly, I was out tackling the roof. Had about 1 foot compacted snow on the roof. The roof is relatively steep pitch and it usually takes me about 25 minutes to remove snow with old style aluminum roof rake. I probably spent no more than 5 minutes and not only did it remove the snow easily, but it did a super neat job. This is one of those items that is really too good to be true. I'm going to rig up a gizmo to adapt my 12 foot aluminum swimming pool vacuum pole, so I can extend the Avalanche reach another 12 feet.
I'm also going to make a hand crank that will adapt to the nylock nuts on the threaded shaft so I can roll up the plastic sheet quickly.
What can I say.... Very pleased!

Parts can be ordered from the Avalanche company, located in Plymouth, Minnesota. Their number is 1-800-378-3088.

We really like our snow rake, but we must give some warning. We didn't know the avalanche snow rake existed until after a couple of snow storms, so we were behind to begin with. It readily removes the snow on the east and west facing roofs, but only removes the recent layers of snow on the one facing north, which is our biggest problem, because it valleys with the one facing west.

We were also rather 'vigorous' in trying to remove the old snow and we have found the pole has cracked where the head attaches. We were able to cut off the pole, drill new holes and reattach the head. One of the plastic wheels has also bored itself out, but still seems to work okay. Also, our flag is in tatters, but we are planning to make our own new one. I should mention that we have a metal roof, which is going to be hard on any plastic runner, so we don't think this is necessarily a design flaw.

We have figured out this product is meant to be used after each new snowfall and...Read more