Greenworks 40V 12″ Cordless Snow Shovel, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included

Greenworks 40V 12″ Cordless Snow Shovel, 4.0Ah Battery and Charger Included is a powered snow shovel, a narrow cordless tool for steps, decks, walkways and a car length of path. The cut is 12 inches wide. It is a Greenworks item. Pack capacity is 4.0 amp hours. The stock number is 2605602LC. Two components can look identical on a bench and take different fitments, so the 2605602LC reference is the safe way to buy.

The case for this 12 inch cordless snow shovel

A powered shovel is not a small snow blower. There is no impeller and no drive, and that is the point. This is the tool for the places a full machine cannot reach: steps, landings, decks and a narrow side path.

It is a Greenworks item. The cut is 12 inches wide. The stock number is 2605602LC. It is listed under Snow Shovels. You are looking at $449.99 CAD delivered into the Canadian market.

Technical detail

You are looking at $449.99 CAD delivered into the Canadian market. There is no price advantage in waiting and there is a real availability cost.

Who should buy this 12 inch cordless snow shovel

Clearing width is a time calculation before it is anything else. Pace the driveway, divide by the width, and that is your pass count every heavy morning for the life of the 12 inch cordless snow shovel. A narrow cordless tool clears a path faster than a manual shovel and stores in a fraction of the space.

Quoted capacities are measured in the easy conditions. March slush is not the easy condition. Surface decides the class before depth does, and gravel decides it absolutely.

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.

Built for a Canadian season

National averages hide the fact that some Canadian cities get three times what others do. Saguenay, Quebec averages roughly 313 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 313 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. We stock to survive that repetition rather than a single showroom demonstration. See the maintenance schedule for the full method.

Ordering and delivery

It is priced at $449.99 in Canadian dollars, with no conversion applied at the checkout. Canada wide delivery, with freight free above $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

returns and refunds sets out the window and who pays freight in which circumstances. Belts, shear pins, paddles, scraper bars and skid shoes are excluded everywhere. the warranty policy has the detail.

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.

Keeping it working

Set your route so you throw with the wind rather than into it. Damp storage does more damage over one summer than a whole winter of clearing does. 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. Stock moves quickly once the snow starts, which is the only real argument for ordering early.

Never clear a blocked chute by hand. The impeller stores energy with the engine off and releases it when the obstruction moves. Guidance for powered snow removal in Canada is published by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

• a balcony or a fire escape landing
• topping up a path between passes with the main machine
• a property where storage space is the real constraint
• clearing steps, decks and landings where a machine will not fit

Reading the listing

Read the description literally: 40v, shovel, 0ah, battery, charger, included. Those terms are how this differs from the neighbouring line. A part described as upper is not the lower equivalent, however similar the two look on a bench.

This line is 2605602LC. The 12 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 12 inch cordless snow shovel. The 40 volt figure refers to the platform, not to a household supply. The 4.0 amp hour figure is pack capacity, which is what sets runtime. Anything less precise than that is where wrong parts come from.

Read next

Where to go from here. None of them are sales pages. They exist because we got tired of answering the same question by email.

• the sizing guide
• the snow shovel range
• the parts catalogue

Parts and long term support

What happens when something wears out, which it will. 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. Expect the first consumable at around season three and the first real part at around season six on a machine like this.

Start at the parts catalogue. If the listing does not name your model explicitly, ask through the contact page first.

What a 12 inch cut means on your driveway

A 12 inch clearing width sounds abstract until it is minutes in the cold. These are the minutes.

These are clean pass figures. Nobody clears a driveway without stopping, so the real number is a little higher and the comparison between widths still holds. 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

The useful part of any product page is the part that says no. Here is where this 12 inch cordless snow shovel stops.

• It is not a small snow blower. There is no impeller, so it clears a path rather than throwing across a lawn.
• 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.
• It will not clear a car out. That is a full machine job.

Should any of them apply, look at a different class entirely. the contact page will shortlist it for you.

What the 40V 4Ah pack really gives you

Battery arithmetic, because the figure on the box assumes conditions Canadians rarely get. A 40 volt pack rated 4 amp hours holds about 160 watt hours of usable energy. Draw rises steeply with snow density, so the same pack that feels generous in December feels thin in March.

Read the wet snow row as your planning number. Spares are on the parts catalogue and the electric range covers the wider electric range.

Where the price sits

Value, measured against the nearest two machines we sell rather than against a manufacturer list price.

Stepping down to Snow Joe 24V-X2-SB18-GO 48-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Blower Kit | 18-Inch | W/ 2 x 4.0-Ah Batteries + Charger saves $31.86, and stepping up to Greenworks PRO 80V 20″ Cordless Snow Thrower (Tool Only) costs a further $0.00. 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

What this actually costs, once you count the winters rather than the one afternoon you buy it.

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

Buyers who return a machine almost never chose the wrong brand. They chose the wrong width.

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. A narrower machine used well beats a wider one you dread getting out.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

If something goes wrong, it will almost certainly be one of these.

Every part named there is stocked by manufacturer stock number on the parts catalogue, and the repair guide works through faults in order of likelihood rather than by guesswork.

Your first season with a 12 inch cordless snow shovel

None of this is difficult. All of it is easier in October than in January.

1. Buy the spare paddle now, not the week it wears out.
2. Store it upright and out of road salt.
3. Time one real clear so you know whether the runtime covers your path, before you rely on it.
4. Charge the pack fully and store it indoors between clears.
5. Mark the path edges so you are not clearing lawn.

the maintenance schedule takes over from here, with the buying guide as background.

Storing a 12 inch cordless snow shovel for the summer

Eight months of the year this 12 inch cordless snow shovel is doing nothing, and how it spends that time decides how it starts in December.

• Store packs indoors at room temperature and around half charge. A pack left flat in an unheated garage all summer may not recover.
• Keep the 12 inch cordless snow shovel off a bare concrete floor to limit moisture.
• Check the paddle and scraper at the end of the season so you order parts in summer rather than in a storm.
• Store it upright and covered rather than under a tarp that traps damp.

The complete routine lives on the maintenance schedule, with replacement parts listed on the parts catalogue.

About Greenworks

A name on the housing is worth something only if the parts are still available a decade later. What Greenworks gets right in this category is availability. What it does not do is reinvent the mechanism, which in a snow tool is a compliment. The comparison worth making is against the other machines on the parts catalogue at the same width.

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