Snow Joe 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB 24-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Shovel Kit | 13.5 Inch | W/ 5.0-Ah Battery and Charger | Directional Control

Snow Joe 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB 24-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Shovel Kit | 13.5 Inch | W/ 5.0-Ah Battery and Charger | Directional Control is a powered snow shovel, a narrow cordless tool for steps, decks, walkways and a car length of path. It is a Snow Joe item. The stock number is 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB. The model reference printed on the unit is SS13. It is listed under Snow Shovels. Order this 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel by stock number 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB rather than by the name of the 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel it came off.

The case for this 13.5 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. Where a full width machine is too wide and a hand shovel is too slow, this is what fills the gap.

The cut is 13.5 inches wide. It is a Snow Joe item. Pack capacity is 5.0 amp hours. The stock number is 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB. It is priced at $418.13 in Canadian dollars, with no conversion applied at the checkout.

Specification at a glance

$418.13 CAD covers it, with no duty arriving at the door afterwards. A spare bought before the season is a spare, and a spare bought during one is an emergency.

Built for a Canadian season

One city, one number, as a sanity check on this 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel. Fredericton, New Brunswick averages roughly 216 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 13.5 inches of clearing width, a standard two car driveway takes about 22 passes on this 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel, and in a 216 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. The right comparison is your city against this width, and the petrol range sets that out.

Getting it to you

$418.13 CAD covers it, with no duty arriving at the door afterwards. Canada wide delivery, with freight free above $999. shipping and delivery has the detail.

Our terms on returns are plainer than most and they are on returns and refunds. Every machine carries its full manufacturer warranty. The exclusions are on the warranty policy.

The contact page is the fastest route to a straight answer on fitment. Consumer rights when buying a 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel in Canada, above any retailer policy, are set out by Consumer Protection Ontario.

Running it season after season

Clear the paddle of packed snow between passes on wet days. Keep it dry between seasons and most of the failures on this page never happen. 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. Late summer through October is when choice is widest across the whole catalogue.

Impeller injuries remain the most common serious accident with this equipment, and they happen to experienced operators who took one shortcut. 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

Who it suits

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 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel. It trades capacity for reach and weight, and for most urban properties that is the right trade.

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.

Reading the listing

Break the name apart and you get 24v, ss13, sjb, ionmax, shovel, battery, charger. That is the whole specification in shorthand. Length, thread and profile change between otherwise identical looking components.

This line is 24V-SS13.5-XR-SJB. The printed model reference is SS13. The 13.5 inch figure is the clearing width rather than the overall width of the 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel. The 24 volt figure refers to the platform, not to a household supply. The 5.0 amp hour figure is pack capacity, which is what sets runtime. Anything less precise than that is where wrong parts come from.

Read next

Further reading that actually answers the follow up questions. Between them they answer most of what people ask us before buying.

• the single stage range
• the contact page
• the buying guide

Parts and long term support

A machine is only as good as the parts you can get for it in February. We list wear parts for this 13.5 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 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel.

Wear parts are listed on the parts catalogue. When the plate is unreadable, photograph what is left of it and send it to the contact page rather than guessing.

What a 13.5 inch cut means on your driveway

Everything about clearing width comes down to how many lengths you walk. At 13.5 inches, this is what three common Canadian driveways look like.

The comparison is what matters here, not the absolute minutes. A wider cut always finishes sooner and always stores worse. If your own drive is not on that list, the sizing guide works through the four measurements that settle it.

What this 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel will not do

This is the section we would want to read. What it will not do.

• It must stay off gravel for the same reason every paddle driven tool must.
• It will not touch a plow ridge, and it is wrong for anything wider than a walkway or a single car apron.
• Deep or drifted snow defeats it quickly. Above the intake height it needs two lifts.
• It has no drive, so on a long path you are pushing it the whole way.

Recognise your property in any of those and stop here. Tell the contact page what you are clearing and we will point you at the right class.

What the 24V 5Ah pack really gives you

A pack is best judged in watt hours, because that is the number that survives marketing. A 24 volt pack rated 5 amp hours holds about 120 watt hours of usable energy. Draw rises steeply with snow density, so the same pack that feels generous in December feels thin in March.

Cold weather takes another slice off every row. The fix for a short clear is a spare pack from the parts catalogue rather than a different machine, and the electric range lists what shares the platform.

Where the price sits

Shelf position, stated in dollars. These are the two machines a buyer genuinely weighs it against.

Stepping down to Snow Joe 24V-X2-13SS 48-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Shovel Kit | 13-inch | W/ 2 x 4.0-Ah Batteries + Dual Port Charger saves $1.38, and stepping up to Snow Joe 24V-X2-SB18-GO 48-Volt* IONMAX Cordless Snow Blower Kit | 18-Inch | W/ 2 x 4.0-Ah Batteries + Charger 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

The sticker price is the smaller half of the question. Here is what this 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel costs to own for five Canadian winters.

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

Going up or down four inches from 13.5 changes two things and leaves everything else alone.

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 13.5 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

Every category has its own short list of failures. This is the one for this class.

Each fix above maps to a stocked part on the parts catalogue, and the repair guide explains how to confirm the cause first.

Your first season with a 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel

Worth an hour before the first fall. It buys back several.

1. Keep it off gravel. The paddle contacts the ground and will pick up stone.
2. Do a dry run on a light fall to learn how deep a bite it takes without bogging.
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.

After that first week, the maintenance schedule is the schedule to follow, and the buying guide gives the reasoning behind it.

Storing a 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel for the summer

Putting it away properly takes twenty minutes and saves a service call.

• 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.
• Keep the 13.5 inch cordless snow shovel off a bare concrete floor to limit moisture.
• Store it upright and covered rather than under a tarp that traps damp.

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

About Snow Joe

Worth a paragraph, because brand determines parts more than it determines build. The Snow Joe range is broad enough that model numbers matter more than the badge, which is why the identification table above is on this page at all. Judge it on the numbers above, then check the maintenance schedule for anything closer to your driveway.

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