Sorry to hear that. Even a snowblower is work, if you do it right. I normally have to pull up on the handle a little to make sure the front of the snowblower is getting all the way down to the pavement. It gets a little tiring after a while. Sure beats shoveling. I shoveled a few mounds on the road and piled them on my lawn, hoping to sculpt a polar bear. By the time I got started, I realized that it would all be melted in less than a week, so I abandoned the idea...