I only used this shovel twice, and now it's completely broken.
It's a bad idea to use plastic parts to join the handle to the heavy shovel base unit. Those
broke into pieces, and now there is poor contact with the electrical wires that
drives the motor. The pieces broke in more than one place. I'm trying to figure out
how to craft a repair using a coupling clamp and duct tape.
The shovel only works well in brand new, very light snow - the kind that skiers
long for. Here in upstate New York, we have vacillating weather that goes back and
forth between snow and rain, then back to snow again. The product idea is good, however the engineers need to go back and use only steel parts to join the handle to the base unit. Plastic is NOT sturdy enough to hold up in the snow. The plastic is sure to break off after 2 uses.