Erapro P-4ME 18-Inch Poly Blade With Metal Edge Combo Snow Shovel With 36-Inch Stained Hardwood Shaft

This snow shovel is heavier than I expected it to be. The other 2 that I have are much lighter, one is a cheap plastic shovel with a lighter wood shaft, the other is an ergonomic shovel with a hard plastic shaft.

The flaw is in the metal edge design. Because it is simply bolted on to the underside of the plastic shovel, there are spaces in between where the snow can get in. Shoveling more snow will compress the trapped snow and cause it to turn into ice and thereby causing the metal edge to become more separated from the plastic shovel. The manufactured seems to have tried to take this into account by having a arch in the metal for the excess ice to go, but when there is too much ice, the arch becomes full and cannot move the ice to the sides anymore. This causes more ice to accumulate in between and further forcing the metal and the plastic apart.

The shovel overall is still usable, just that the flaw will cause it to have a shorter life.

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