Homemade Snow Shooter on Wheels Shovels Snow with Fun and Ease
Channel: Saad Hebboul
Date: 09/06/2019

The snow shooter is a snow shoveling machine that combines the convenience of a hand truck with the power of a kicked soccer ball to remove snow from your driveway or front yard with fun and ease. With this new tool, you can pick up a load of snow, wheel it anywhere you want, then shoot it on the lawn. Unlike the snow shovel, the snow shooter does not stress your back, arms, and shoulders. Instead, it uses the force of the strongest muscles in your body, namely, your leg and foot muscles, to help you shovel snow without the need for electrical or gas power. 

When you kick the soccer ball with your foot, you transfer the force of the impact from your 
foot to a piston mechanism which, in turn, imparts a fast forward motion to the shovel. An 
instant later, the shovel is pulled back by bungee cords which cause it to decelerate and 
"shoot" the load of snow in the air along a parabolic trajectory. For a given kick force and
inclination angle of the snow shooter, the load of snow lands on the lawn at a distance which depends mainly on the snow density and its total weight. 

The snow shooter shovels both light dry snow and heavy wet snow. Light dry snow tends
to break up into a mist of fine snow particles that shoot off along a wide range of trajectories. However, heavy wet, or compacted, snow stays in clumps that shoot off 
along well defined trajectories. Depending on the density and total weight of these clumps, or balls, their travel distances can range anywhere from 1 foot for the largest balls to 
6 feet for the smallest balls. 

If you love to play soccer and you need a new cheap snow-removal machine that does not break your back, or your bank account, then you will appreciate the snow shooter. Watch my next video, "How I Made the Snow Shooter and Much More", and build one for yourself before next winter.

MUSIC:

I used two of my 2015 music compositions,  "Festive Drums" and "Rhythmic Piano", from Album "Engines of Music". They play in the video in the following order:

1. Festive Drums
2. Rhythmic Piano
3. Festive Drums

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

I thank D. S. Ellis for giving me the idea to do the garage preparation scenes and my neighbor Rich for demonstrating his Snow Blower in my front yard.