Stuff We Want: Snow Joe 24V Cordless Electric Snow Shovel, a Shovel That Does the Shoveling

Google Trends has winter weather forecast climbing, which means a lot of us just opened the weather app, saw a snowflake icon, and felt our lower back clench in advance.

Every year starts the same way. The first snow shows up, you find the shovel behind the patio furniture, and twenty minutes later you're leaning on it like a cane, negotiating with the last six steps.

The Snow Joe 24V Cordless Electric Snow Shovel is the fix for exactly that job. It looks like a shovel and has a motorized auger at the business end that grabs the snow and throws it out of the way. You walk, it works. It feels like cheating, and nobody is going to stop you.

It's made for quick snow pickups on decks, steps, patios and sidewalks, with a 10-inch clearing width and a 210W motor. Snow Joe lists the ideal snow depth at 6 inches, so think of it as the first-responder for the walk to the car, not a driveway-eating monster.

No cord to drag through the slush. It's a kit, so the 24V iONMAX 5.0Ah lithium-ion battery and the charger come with it, and the listing says that's good for up to 30 minutes of whisper-quiet runtime. Quiet matters at 6:45 AM, when your neighbors are still asleep and you'd like to stay on good terms.

It weighs about 10 pounds, and Snow Joe backs its powered products with a two-year warranty.

Who it's for: anyone with steps, a deck or a walkway that turns into a ski slope after every storm, early risers, and the friend who texts "is it bad out?" before every snow day.

Skip it if you've got a long driveway that collects a foot of heavy wet snow. That's a full-size snow blower job, and this is the shovel's turbocharged little cousin.

The verdict: hand-picked for the winter forecast spike. Charge it now, lean it by the door, and let the first snow be somebody else's back problem.

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