40V 12″ Snow Shovel with Directional Vanes (Tool Only)

40V 12″ Snow Shovel with Directional Vanes (Tool Only) is a powered snow shovel, a narrow cordless tool for steps, decks, walkways and a car length of path. It belongs to the 40 volt platform. The stock number is 2618902. It is listed under Snow Shovels. The cut is 12 inches wide. We list this as 2618902 precisely because near identical parts are not interchangeable.

Living with a 12 inch cordless snow shovel

Battery powered, instant to start, and light enough to carry down a set of steps in one hand. It trades capacity for reach and weight, and for most urban properties that is the right trade.

The cut is 12 inches wide. It belongs to the 40 volt platform. The stock number is 2618902. It is listed under Snow Shovels. The listed price is $399.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country.

Key figures

At $399.99 Canadian, this sits where you would expect for the class. Late summer through October is when choice is widest across the whole catalogue.

What it asks of you each year

Petrol machines ask for three things a year: stabilised fuel, clean oil and a look at the wear parts. Skip the first and the other two stop mattering.

The failure everybody has is a machine that will not start in December after a summer of neglect. It is entirely preventable and the prevention takes place in April, not November. The no start guide works through it if you are already past that point.

Keep hands out of the chute. The tool on the handle is not a suggestion, and impeller injuries reach experienced operators who took one shortcut on one cold morning.

Choosing this over a wider or narrower machine

Width buys minutes. Every extra inch of cut is one fewer length walked on a morning you would rather be indoors. 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. Stone through an impeller is dangerous to whoever is nearby and expensive to whatever it hits.

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.

Ordering from us

The listed price is $399.99 CAD and that is the figure you pay, because the stock is already in the country. Anything of this size posts normally, and the free freight threshold is $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

Before starting a return, read returns and refunds, because a machine that has had fuel through it is treated differently. What is covered and what is treated as wear is set out on the warranty policy.

Questions go through the contact page and are answered by a person, not a script. Consumer rights when buying a 12 inch cordless snow shovel in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Built for a Canadian season

Canadian conditions vary enormously, so here is a concrete reference point. Winnipeg, Manitoba averages roughly 114 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 114 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. It is worth ten minutes with your local figures before ordering, and the buying guide walks through it.

Reading the listing

This is catalogued as 40v, shovel, directional, vanes, tool, only, and every one of those terms is doing work. Position words such as upper, lower, left and right are the ones people skip, and they are the ones that cause returns.

This line is 2618902. 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. Get that right and the rest of the order takes care of itself.

Read next

Still weighing it up? Start with these. They are short, and they are specific to Canadian conditions.

• the sizing guide
• the petrol range
• our reviews

Parts and long term support

Parts availability is the quietest reason to buy from one retailer over another. 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 12 inch cordless snow shovel.

Check the parts catalogue for the part, and use the contact page to confirm fitment against your serial before ordering.

What a 12 inch cut means on your driveway

Everything about clearing width comes down to how many lengths you walk. At 12 inches, this is what three common Canadian driveways look like.

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

Where this 12 inch cordless snow shovel runs out. Every machine does, and pretending otherwise costs you a return.

• It must stay off gravel for the same reason every paddle driven tool must.
• Runtime is short by design. It is a tool for ten minutes of work, not an hour.
• 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 clear a car out. That is a full machine job.

If that describes your situation, this is not your machine. the contact page can narrow it down in one message.

Where the price sits

The only comparison that matters is the one you would really be making in the cart.

Stepping down to 80V Brushless 12″ Snow Shovel with Directional Vane (Tool Only) saves $0.00, and stepping up to Greenworks 13 Amp Corded 20″ Snow Thrower 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. A 12 inch cordless snow shovel is a simple thing done well, and simple things fail in predictable ways.

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

If you are hovering between this and the size either side of it, the trade is the same every time and it is not about power. A 12 inch cordless snow shovel is a simple thing done well, and simple things fail in predictable ways.

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. The step either side of 12 inches is usually one pass on a standard driveway, which is a few minutes rather than a transformation.

What goes wrong, and the part that fixes it

Nothing here is exotic. These cover most of what we are called about in January. That is the practical case for a 12 inch cordless snow shovel rather than the marketing one.

Order any of them from the parts catalogue. the repair guide covers the same faults in more detail, with the checks to run first.

Your first season with a 12 inch cordless snow shovel

Do these before the snow arrives. Every one of them is harder once it has.

1. Do a dry run on a light fall to learn how deep a bite it takes without bogging.
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. Buy the spare paddle now, not the week it wears out.
5. Charge the pack fully and store it indoors between clears.

Keep the maintenance schedule open through the winter, and read the buying guide if you want the reasons rather than the list.

Storing a 12 inch cordless snow shovel for the summer

How to shut it down for the summer.

• Store packs indoors at room temperature and around half charge. A pack left flat in an unheated garage all summer may not recover.
• Check the paddle and scraper at the end of the season so you order parts in summer rather than in a storm.
• Do not leave packs on the charger for months. Charge them, take them off, check them in August.
• Keep the 12 inch cordless snow shovel off a bare concrete floor to limit moisture.

Pair this with the maintenance schedule, and use the parts catalogue to order in summer rather than in a storm.

Common questions

How this 12 inch cordless snow shovel differs from the line beside it

This particular line is 40 volts, 12 inches of cut, no pack or charger included, which is not the neighbouring entry. At 12 inches this is a specific job rather than a general one. Wider means fewer passes and worse storage. Narrower reaches the steps, the landing and the gap beside the car that a wide machine simply cannot enter.

Voltage sets available current rather than headline power, so a 40 volt tool holds its speed deeper into wet snow than a lower platform of the same width. Buy into the platform you already own packs on, because across a decade the packs cost more than the tool did.

Two listings that look the same in a search result are frequently different tools. The figures above are how to tell which one you are looking at. Quoting 40V 12″ Snow Shovel with Directional Van at the point of order removes every ambiguity between this line and its neighbours.

Making sure you order the right one

Specification, not appearance, is what tells these apart.

Run down the table with the old machine beside you. Any disagreement is worth a question to the contact page before ordering.

The verdict

Our actual recommendation. This is a tool for walkways, steps and a single car apron, bought to replace a manual shovel rather than a snow blower. Bought for that job it is a good purchase, and bought for a different one it will disappoint you in the first week of January regardless of how well it is built.

That is the honest recommendation. If it does not describe your driveway, try the contact page instead.