How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

Clearing the area of ​​snow throughout the winter using a shovel requires a lot of effort and time. Using expensive motorized equipment for this will hit the family budget hard. To avoid these two extremes, you can make a snow shovel that resembles a scraper or a scraper, which, on the one hand, will help save energy, and on the other, money.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

Will need


We will make the original snow shovel from the following available and inexpensive materials and products:
  • a 20-liter plastic bucket for paint, putty, or the like;
  • a fragment of a thick wooden board;
  • connecting aluminum strip for linoleum;
  • galvanized pipe flange;
  • steel threaded fitting for 45 degree rotation;
  • one long and two short pieces of round steel pipe;
  • mounting screws;
  • steel pipe tee at 90 degrees;
  • two plugs;
  • rivets

For work we will need some tools and devices: a jigsaw, hacksaws for wood and metal, a hand screwdriver, a die with a collar and a rivet gun.

The process of making a snow shovel from a bucket


To make the working body of our homemade product, we cut the plastic bucket longitudinally into two halves with a jigsaw. We connect them so that the stiffening ribs are in the center and fit tightly to each other.
We cut out a rectangular fragment of a given length and width from a thick wooden board. We apply it from the outside symmetrically to the line of connection of the two parts of the plastic bucket and from the inside we fix them to the wooden fragment with screws using a hand screwdriver.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

We install a galvanized pipe flange in the center of the wooden rectangle and also secure it with several screws. Screw the steel pipe fitting into the threaded hole of the flange at 45 degrees.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

At the ends of the long and short sections of steel pipe, using a die and a wrench, we cut threads and screw one end of the long pipe into an elbow fitting, and screw a steel tee onto the opposite end with a bend. We screw short tubes into the other two ends of the tee and screw plugs onto their ends.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

To strengthen it, we apply an aluminum plate to the edge of the working body from below and drill holes in the plastic with a drill. Then, using a riveter, we fasten these elements together.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

Our scraper style snow shovel is ready to go.
How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

How to make a snow shovel from a putty bucket

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Comments (1)
  1. Yuri
    #1 Yuri Guests 24 December 2019 16:21
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    This plastic will fall apart instantly in normal frost, and this is not a shovel, but a scraper. Plastic is not the best material for shovels; plywood is both simpler and more reliable.