Is that the worst piece of rope he could come up with? That rope would get on my nerve pretty quick, as it impedes speed.

That video should be named, "How to make a 15 minute job last all day".

For the decks I use the short standard shovel. For the drive I use the lawn tractor with chains and wheel weights. git r dun

If it's less than a foot deep our 4x4 vehicles go right over it anyway.

I shoveled IN snow until I was 22. Then took the cure by moving to south TX, then coastal SC, then Panama, then southern CA, then south AL. I did land between banks of plowed snow and saw some really snowed in places during a lot of RONs.

Eh, buy a snowblower. I used to shovel long, long dirt driveways, it seemed easy then. When I hit 65 it was time to adapt.

My East Coast winter illumination came during one January when, after an ice storm followed by a snow storm, I had to free my car's four tires using an icepick.

When I was stationed in South Korea in the 1970s, I saw many Korean farmers use a crew-served shovel. The shovel wielder stood in the middle with a guy on either side. They were each holding a rope that was tied off just above the shovel's head. Middle guy jammed the shovel into the rice paddy's muck and the two flankers fulled it out with the ropes and threw the gunk to one side or the other.

Those guys could fly. Incredibly fast work. But then, they'd had years and years of practice.

Did Sippican put you up to this?

At my last visit to my cardiologist I told him that at age 76 I had taken up crossfit four days a week. His only comment was: "Well, it's a lot better than shoveling snow."

As an alternative, you could try moving to west-central Florida. That's what I did. Haven't had to shovel snow yet.

That guy's driveway bears the unmistakable marks of a snowblower passing.

I have the fancier version of this. It's a flexible handle that attaches about halfway down the handle. It works the same way as the rope does, and the motions are the same. I have one on a snow shovel and one on my compost fork.

This guy's method is less expensive.

If Peter Griffin has taught us anything, it's that the proper way to lift heavy things is with a jerking & twisting motion. Save your legs.