60V 12″ Snow Shovel, 2.5Ah Battery and Charger Included

60V 12″ Snow Shovel, 2.5Ah Battery and Charger Included is a powered snow shovel, a narrow cordless tool for steps, decks, walkways and a car length of path. The stock number is 2610402CT. The cut is 12 inches wide. It is listed under Snow Shovels. Pack capacity is 2.5 amp hours. Use 2610402CT when you order and the right item arrives the first time.

Choosing a 12 inch cordless snow shovel for a Canadian driveway

This is the tool for the places a full machine cannot reach: steps, landings, decks and a narrow side path. It trades capacity for reach and weight, and for most urban properties that is the right trade.

The cut is 12 inches wide. Pack capacity is 2.5 amp hours. It is listed under Snow Shovels. It belongs to the 60 volt platform. The figure is $469.99, quoted the way every price on this site is quoted, in Canadian dollars.

Key figures

At $469.99 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. Stock moves quickly once the snow starts, which is the only real argument for ordering early.

Living with it through a winter

On anything deeper than the intake, take it in two lifts rather than forcing one. A pallet or a length of timber under the 12 inch cordless snow shovel over summer is the cheapest rust prevention there is. snow blower storage sets out the April routine in full.

Wear parts are cheap in autumn and slow in January. We hold them on snow blower parts with the manufacturer stock number on every listing, and the maintenance checklist says when to check each one. Order before the first forecast moves demand and the item is on a shelf rather than on a backorder.

Use the clearing tool clipped to the handle. That tool exists because a stored impeller does not care how careful you are. Guidance for powered snow removal in Canada is published by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

• clearing steps, decks and landings where a machine will not fit
• a narrow path along the side of a house
• the strip in front of a garage door after the plow has been past
• a balcony or a fire escape landing

Built for a Canadian season

The only seasonal average worth checking is the one for where you actually live. Sherbrooke, Quebec averages roughly 287 centimetres of snow in a season. Spread across a typical twenty to thirty snowfall events, that is a machine being asked to work most weeks from December through March rather than occasionally.

At 12 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 24 passes on this 12 inch cordless snow shovel, and in a 287 centimetre season you would expect to make those passes twenty times or more. That repetition, not any single storm, is what separates equipment that lasts from equipment that does not. Match the 12 inch cordless snow shovel to your season rather than to the country average, which the sizing guide covers properly.

Buying, shipping and returns

At $469.99 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. Canada wide delivery, with freight free above $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

The return window and the freight rules are on returns and refunds. Every machine carries its full manufacturer warranty. The exclusions are on the warranty policy.

We would rather answer a question than process a return, so ask through the contact page. Consumer rights when buying a 12 inch cordless snow shovel in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Choosing this over a wider or narrower machine

Work out the passes before you buy. A driveway divided by the cut width tells you more than any specification sheet. Where a full width machine is too wide and a hand shovel is too slow, this is what fills the gap.

Wet snow is the honest test. Dry powder flatters every machine in the category. If any part of the drive is unpaved, the single stage machines are out of the conversation.

If you are choosing between classes rather than sizes, single stage against two stage is the shorter read and what size snow blower you need works through the four measurements that settle it.

Reading the listing

The distinguishing terms here are 60v, shovel, 5ah, battery, charger, included. Left and right are not interchangeable even when the castings appear symmetrical.

This line is 2610402CT. The 12 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 12 inch cordless snow shovel. The 60 volt figure refers to the platform, not to a household supply. The 2.5 amp hour figure is pack capacity, which is what sets runtime. Use those figures rather than a description and the fitment is settled.

Read next

If this is not quite the 12 inch cordless snow shovel, these are the pages that will find the one that is. Read whichever matches the part you are least sure about.

• the maintenance schedule
• the parts catalogue
• the buying guide

Parts and long term support

Buying the 12 inch cordless snow shovel is the easy half. Being able to fix it in year six is the half that matters. We list wear parts for this 12 inch cordless snow shovel by manufacturer stock number rather than by generic description, which means paddles, scrapers and replacement packs can be matched to your exact unit rather than to something that looks similar in a photograph. A wear part on a machine at $469.99 is typically five to ten per cent of the purchase, which is the arithmetic that decides repair against replacement.

Order spares through the parts catalogue, and if you are unsure which number fits, send the model and serial from the plate on the frame through the contact page and we will confirm before you buy.

What a 12 inch cut means on your driveway

Before the specification sheet, the pass count. A 12 inch cut turns into these figures on the three driveway shapes we are asked about most.

Treat the minutes as a floor rather than a promise. Saturated March snow slows every machine in this category, sometimes by half. If your own drive is not on that list, the sizing guide works through the four measurements that settle it.

What this 12 inch cordless snow shovel will not do

Worth knowing before you buy rather than after the first storm.

• It has no drive, so on a long path you are pushing it the whole way.
• It will not clear a car out. That is a full machine job.
• It will not touch a plow ridge, and it is wrong for anything wider than a walkway or a single car apron.
• It must stay off gravel for the same reason every paddle driven tool must.

If one of those rules you out, send the driveway length, the surface and your typical storm depth through the contact page and we will name the 12 inch cordless snow shovel that fits instead.

What the 60V 2.5Ah pack really gives you

Watt hours, current draw and minutes. The three numbers that decide whether one pack finishes your driveway. A 60 volt pack rated 2.5 amp hours holds about 150 watt hours of usable energy. Draw rises steeply with snow density, so the same pack that feels generous in December feels thin in March.

Real figures land below these once the pack is cold. Where one pack will not finish, two packs beat a larger machine on cost and on storage. the parts catalogue stocks them; the electric range shows the range.

Where the price sits

What it costs, next to what it is competing with on this site.

Stepping down to Snow Joe 48-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Blower Kit | 18-Inch | W/ 2 x 4.0-Ah Batteries + Charger saves $10.05, and stepping up to 40V 20″ Brushless Snow Thrower (Tool Only) costs a further $30.00. Cost per inch is a blunt measure and it ignores drive systems, engine size and build, but it is honest about what the gap between two machines is buying you in raw clearing width. Read it alongside the sizing table above rather than on its own, because a wider machine you cannot store or turn is not a saving.

What it costs to own for five seasons

The five year number is the one worth comparing between classes, because it is where fuel and consumables show up.

There is very little to spend after the purchase, which is most of the argument for this class on a suburban driveway.

Going one size up, or one size down

The size argument, settled in three lines rather than a specification table.

Measure the narrowest gate and the shed door before you measure the driveway. A machine that will not reach the back garden is the most common expensive mistake in this category, and it is entirely avoidable with a tape measure. Buyers regularly overbuy on width and then store the 12 inch cordless snow shovel badly because it no longer fits where they planned.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

What goes wrong, why, and what to order. In that order, because ordering first is how people end up with three wrong parts.

Parts by number on the parts catalogue, method on the repair guide. In that order saves money.

Your first season with a 12 inch cordless snow shovel

What we would do in the first week of ownership, in the order we would do it.

1. Keep it off gravel. The paddle contacts the ground and will pick up stone.
2. Buy the spare paddle now, not the week it wears out.
3. Mark the path edges so you are not clearing lawn.
4. Time one real clear so you know whether the runtime covers your path, before you rely on it.
5. Charge the pack fully and store it indoors between clears.

From there it is routine. the maintenance schedule sets the intervals and the buying guide explains the thinking.

Storing a 12 inch cordless snow shovel for the summer

Most December failures are made in April.

• Store it upright and covered rather than under a tarp that traps damp.
• Keep the 12 inch cordless snow shovel off a bare concrete floor to limit moisture.
• Do not leave packs on the charger for months. Charge them, take them off, check them in August.
• Check the paddle and scraper at the end of the season so you order parts in summer rather than in a storm.

the maintenance schedule covers the monthly checks; the parts catalogue carries the parts you will have identified doing this.

Common questions