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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn't put down salt first and we didn't shovel until this morning.

There was a hard 3'' layer of crust on the top, which was hard to break through and really heavy.

My method was to crouch down and physically chunk off huge pieces of the crust and heave it to the side of the driveway. Like pizza box sized chunks. I'd do that for 10 linear feet or so for the whole driveway then shovel the soft snow underneath. I feel ok now, but we'll see how my back feels tomorrow. My forearms aren't buff enough to shovel the heavy stuff. My DH did ok with shoveling it all in one swoop though, and he's finishing while I'm on calls. [/quote]

This is almost exactly what I did, though my ice chunks were more like 1/4 to 1/2 pizza box sized.

Fwiw this was a weird storm. We have a double wide sidewalk, so I generally only clear half at a time since sometimes it's safer to walk on snow if the sidewalk ices up. I shoveled the first half twice yesterday. Today the previously shoveled part was nearly impossible to break through. The non shoveled part was okay with the above method, so that's what I cleared. [/quote]

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