[HN Gopher] Clear Snow the Laziest Way Imaginable ___________________________________________________________________ Clear Snow the Laziest Way Imaginable Author : indigodaddy Score : 11 points Date : 2022-11-16 22:01 UTC (59 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.instructables.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.instructables.com) | giantdude wrote: | Seems like a lot of work. Snow is heavy. Shoveling seems a bit | easier than moving an unmovable tarp full of snow, while slipping | and sliding. | TomK32 wrote: | yup, and that snow is still on the tarp and the tarp needs to | be clean of snow on the underside or the snow might melt and | the whole tarp might get frozen to the ground it protects. | cactacea wrote: | Might work great if it stays cold enough but if there's any | danger of snow/ice melting and refreezing don't try it... I did | once and ended up with a tarp frozen to my car's windshield and | doors, couldn't even get in to turn it on and get the heater | going. | johnthuss wrote: | Putting down a tarp to catch the snow and then pulling it away | would only work with a very small amount of snow. Snow is HEAVY. | If it was that small it would be almost just as easy to use a | wide snow-pusher-style shovel to move it. | | The other problem is that you have to place the tarp before the | snow falls, which requires a lot of forethought with work and | sleep making it unable to be done for large portions of the day. | bena wrote: | Going to napkin math this. | | Each gallon of water weighs 8lbs. | | 1 cubic foot is about 7 gallons. | | That's 56lbs. That's going to get real heavy real quick. | Especially for an area where shovelling would take a while. Which | is when you'd want something like this. | karmakaze wrote: | How about a big mirror + magnifying glass on the roof that can | remotely focus the winter sun. It might be slow but fun except | when overcast. | omoikane wrote: | Not sure if this was meant as a joke, but it sounded like a | fire hazard. | Yoofie wrote: | Seems like this plan requires foresight and/or planning. The same | people who are often lazy also often lack foresight. | dane-pgp wrote: | Surely an even lazier way would be to wait for warmer weather? | TomK32 wrote: | Why wait for warmer weather when you could simply move closer | to the equator where you have more warm weather to begin with? | dane-pgp wrote: | That's not clearing snow lazily, it's avoiding snow with a | lot of effort, but you're probably right that your suggestion | could be less total effort than the method in the article, | after a certain number of years. | indigodaddy wrote: | Sometimes that can take quite awhile depending on where you | are, but yeah that definitely seems the laziest way :). I guess | the intent might be laziest non-passive way imaginable.. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-16 23:00 UTC)