Perhaps, only children sincerely rejoice in winter snow, because this is a full-fledged entertainment package for a long period. But adults have a difficult time cleaning snow. The work is slow and exhausting, especially for owners of private homes; you need to take out the snow from the yard and free the personal territory from snow. If you don’t free yourself from fresh snow right away, spending an hour and a half, then you will spend the whole day off on it. Elderly people have much harder to “wield” a shovel
silushka is not the same as in young years. These circumstances forced me to look for a tool other than a shovel. I decided to make a drag scraper - more productivity and less snow removal efforts. Dismantled the old sled
taking skids and upper corners.
On the canvas came a piece of thin galvanized sheet.
There was thicker tin for the sides - the back wall of the refrigerator.
Of the "measuring instruments" - a large school triangle and a meter ruler,
from “cherkilnye” - markers.
I “galvanized” with a ruler and a marker noted everything unnecessary
and removed it with scissors for iron.
I put the skids from the sleds on the wall from the refrigerator and simply circled them with a marker.
Scissors couldn’t cope with such a gesture, but the “Bulgarian” helped
and along the length of the sides coincided with the length of the runners.
On the outside, skids were applied to the sides, and on the inside, corners from the sled and pulled everything together with clamps.
Where is the drill
and where - with a screwdriver
drilled holes and hand riveter
fastened this “layer cake” with rivets.
At one width of the galvanized sheet, I retreated from the edge one and a half centimeters, bent with pliers and “edged” with a hammer
for rigidity.
Then the canvas riveted to the sides,
but the length of the web was not enough for the entire length of the runners. hacksaw
from reiki
cut a wooden bar to the width of the canvas
and on the curved part of the runners "sewed" it to the runners with screws.
The edge of the canvas was fixed on the bar with screws.
and attached the edges of the sidewalls with screws to the board. I screwed the "assistant" - the doorknob onto the board.
"Shafts"
for the winter period removed from an electric mower (article ... published on this resource), pen
- an element from an old chiffonier.
He cut the excess with a hacksaw and screwed the handle to the "Shafts"
on long screws.
The "shafts" are screwed to the sides on the "furniture" bolts with wide hats.
To strengthen the sidewalls in front, I applied small steel corner strips,
which planted on rivets.
Steel corner strip
with rivets reinforced the front of the canvas.
Scraper ready to go.
and soon he will show what he is capable of.