Wooden shovel for snow removal for those who are looking for cheaper
Situations are different: the minitractor has broken, it's hard to find the detail, the motoblock was stolen from the shed, you bought your broken shovel somewhere abroad and plan to order the same and certainly there. For a certain period, perhaps for a couple of months, you still need a means to clear the cover of tracks from the snow. In such cases, many, confident that the problem will soon be resolved, prefer a cheap plywood shovel for one season. What are the advantages of this solution and what are its disadvantages?
On the ruins and in small outlets with household goods, you can find a nice cheap shovel-one-day. Plywood for such tools is most often used of the lowest quality, the working edge is pasted with plastic of secondary processing, the handle is usually made of birch. If the wide wooden shovel for snow removal that you have bought cost you less than 100 rubles, be prepared for the fact that the whole winter it may not be enough for the
The snow shovel is wooden, how not to make a mistake in its choice?
Qualitative snow shovel from plywood to learn it is easy, it does not alarm its appearance, but attracts. Three-ply plywood, from which such a tool is made, usually has practically no defects, including knots. The working part is covered with a strip of tin, the same metal-roll can also be used to strengthen the rear side of the shovel, through which the cutting passes. The correct shovel is covered with varnish, which protects the plywood from premature exfoliation and the negative effect of moisture in general.
The long service life of the plywood shovel is determined by the metal edge, which does not allow the wood to wear out when scraping along the cover of the tracks. The upholstery can be changed as it wears out, which greatly extends the service life of the inventory. The snow shovel wooden in cheap execution represents a direct plane of the plywood sheet with the cuttings cut to it. A quality bucket must be bent at the rear along an arcuate board, ensuring a smooth sliding of the tool in solid snow.
Wooden shovel with own hands
Everyone knows that a snow-shovel wooden shovel consists of a small sheet of plywood of regular rectangular shape, as well as an even cut, which is most often carved from birch. In addition to these two materials, we will need a massive board, preferably edging, even better if it is planed. And, finally, do not forget about tin and short self-tapping screws( such that they do not pass through the plywood), along with long ones.
No one does the scraper from the array, since it will be a rather heavy tool, although shovels of this kind exist - they are intended for cooking bread in a Russian oven.
The board, which will be the tailboard of the bucket, on the one hand we give an arcuate shape, the other should remain even. Plywood is adjusted to the length of the arc, then to one edge it is screwed with screws screwed around the tin, and the second edge is screwed to the curved end of the board with long screws, for strength, laying under them another strip of tin.
There are two options for attaching the cuttings to the bucket. The first is as follows. In the center we make a round cut for the diameter of the cuttings with the help of a crown, a special drill bit. The axis of the hole should be slightly deflected towards the flat edge of the board, about 10 degrees, so that the cutter, passing through it, is restrained by the slanting cut of the end in the plywood. We will tell you about further hardware later, after we consider the second variant of the cuttings installation.
It is simpler, in the center of the board we make a semicircular groove under the shank and lay the latter in the resulting nest with an oblique cut in the plywood, with the fixation in the nest with a long screw. To the back of the shovel we put an oval from the tin and through it we screw the plywood to the cut of the already partially fixed handle. In the same way, fixation is performed when the shovel handle is installed in the first variant.