I posted this over in the SD forums too, but not much activity there... Do any of you know of a good quality ice scraper/snow broom with a telescoping handle? I have a cheap one from a few years back that won't last me this year. I held the ice scraper on with gorilla glue last and its since broken off again and I lost it... A squeegee doesn't work too well on ice

What are some of you using? Has it lasted pretty well?

 

I usually go to wal mart and buy 2 of the biggest and nicest looking ones I can find. I think the last ones I got are with a nice aluminum shaft and seem pretty stout.

 

I picked one up at Sams club last year that i really liked but lost it. Found a telescoping one at Lowes for a fairly decent price. Telescoping handle is nice, no more wet clothes...

 

don't use an ice scraper, EVER. just let the defrost do its job.

 

Problem is when this truck activates the windshield wipers once when you turn the key to on; with courtesy wipe off and *** turned off.
Happens from time to time on mine, very random and very annoying when the wipers are frozen to the windsheld.
They release with a loud "CRACK!"
Can't be good.

 

Good thread timing. I have snow all over my brand new truck. Have to get as much off as I can this afternoon. Taking it in to get cap put on tomorrow. Guess I should try to clean the bed out, best I can.

Will be looking for tool after work.

 

I've never seen this......
Was the **** on when you shutdown?????

Anyway, Remote start w/sup heat for me

 

I bought two snow tools for my truck at my local Ace Hardware - one a telescoping 5" wide scraper w brush on back side, the other a much larger one (telescoping and about 15" wide x 6" tall) that I finally used the first time last night to push the snow off by bed cover. This one is not a scraper but is semi-rigid Foam Rubber coated so I can use it to push snow off the truck all over not just the window.

The smaller one is Branded SubZero - Extender 48" SnowBroom on the handle, while the larger one, which I really like a lot is simply branded Hoppy on the face of the scraper - nothing on the handle.

 

Snow brush - Normal nylon/polypropylene bristle floor broom with full length handle. It doubles as a bed cleaning device.
Ice scraper - the wooden $1.49 variety with the plastic scraper end. Since the side windows are not out of reach, the normal length handle versions work for this. I find the telescopic versions actually make it harder to apply force onto the window to do the ice scraping activity due to leverage angle.

These are both consumable items so I am looking for quantity and not necessarily quality. Actually a squeegee does work on light icing.

 

It was off, I check when the windows are iced over because of previous experience.
I know it sounds crazy and my dealer said I leave the *** on but with over 15 occurences of this over 26,000 miles, I promise I'm not leaving the *** on every time.
Especially in times where it hasn't rained for a month.

Plus if the *** was on, it would continue.

 

I got a "Hopkins Avalanche Pivoting Snowbroom, 54 inch". No snow yet so haven't had a chance to ues it yet.

 

Leaf Blower

 

This may sound silly but what about laying a plastic sheet over your windshield and then just pull it off in the morning?

 

Defroster - this morning it was 17 degrees with a wind chill -10. Letting the engine heat up enough to crank out the heat to melt the windshield in that kind of BLOWING COLD will never work. Even after almost getting to work this morning I used my washer and the fluid froze on the window.

Plastic - that will inevitably rip. With a lot of snow over top it will be a pain in the but to get off.

Heat is the easiest method, but that is not fast enough from the engine. The next best - scrape it off. Sometimes both scraping and heat is needed. Sometimes even when I get to work after scraping some the windshield is not totally clear, after 40 minutes.

Thanks for the information on the brushes/scrapers. This thread got more attention than I anticipated

 

Moisture will still get under the plastic.
Prob. freeze the plastic to the windshield!