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The device that turns one chore into two: clearing snow, then clearing the jam it caused.
means A machine that ingests fallen snow through a rotating auger and flings it clear of the path or driveway.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'snow' and 'blower' — the device descends from earlier 'snow blowers' used to clear railway tracks in the late 1800s, which used a fan or rotor to throw snow rather than just plow it aside. The home-sized version followed once small engines got cheap enough to put in a garage.
- invented by
- Arthur Sicard, inspired by farm threshers in 1925
- golden rule
- never clear a clog with your hand
- single vs two-stage
- one auger scoops, the other also flings far
- peak irony
- stored all year, needed for one storm