What do you use for snow removal?

[SueT]

We don’t usually get a ton of snow, and it doesn’t ever last all winter. But when it does snow, I need a path to the chicken coop 200’ away and I need to clear out at least part of the run. I’ve been using a push broom if there isn’t much, shoveling if more.
My son in Ohio says he uses a backpack leaf blower, which works with light snow.
I was thinking about one of these inexpensive battery snow blowers. Has anyone tried one?
What do you use and how much snow do you get?

 

[southwestclucker]

So far this season, I've had 3 snows, each time with less than 6 inches of accumulation. Since my run has wood chips as the floor, I just use a shovel and skim the top layer of snow (because I don't want to toss out wood chips along with it) AND I keep a stash of dry leaves, dry wood chips and that sort of thing in the shed to lay on top of that so the girls can have dry tootsies...they HATE to walk in snow and won't come out of the coop unless I pamper them that way.

 

[Sally PB]

Snow plow, snow blower, and shovel, depending on where we're removing the snow.

 

[SueT]

Snow plow, snow blower, and shovel, depending on where we're removing the snow.

What kind of snow blower? A plow on your truck/tractor?

 

[itsasmallfarm]

we use a snow blower (push one) a truck with a blade on it to plow snow, shovels, but then we get snow here think we are 2-3 feet my friends up north are telling me there at 4-5 feet in the bush.

 

[saysfaa]

To get to the chicken coop, tall boots.

I just walk through it. The deepest we had last year was about knee deep. That is, of loose snow on top of the packed path.

For the driveway and walk/steps to the house, a shovel like this...

 

[Sally PB]

What kind of snow blower? A plow on your truck/tractor?

I think the snowblower is an MTD, but I'm not sure. Here's a picture of the plow.

It's a 1962 Ford Falcon on a Bronco body. It belonged to a friend, and DH has always though it was cool, so we bought it.

It's not street legal, obviously.