It mostly comes from the type of shovel or scoop. Most farmers use scoops to move grain around the farm. In rural areas most people call it scooping due to this.
This is a scoop:
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Winter Weather 1/22
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It mostly comes from the type of shovel or scoop. Most farmers use scoops to move grain around the farm. In rural areas most people call it scooping due to this.
This is a scoop:
That's right. Scoopin's for sissies eating ice cream. Shoveling is for men (who get stuck doing all of the snow removal)
I grew up in rural NE Iowa with many farm friends. I don't remember anyone calling it "scooping" when snow was involved. Perhaps there is a pocket of sanity in the NE quadrant.It mostly comes from the type of shovel or scoop. Most farmers use scoops to move grain around the farm. It rural areas most people call it scooping due to this.
This is a scoop:
EDIT: Good point below. It can depend on how the snow is being moved, but manual snow removal with a shovel is shoveling.
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If someone comes in a truck and clears your driveway then they are “scooping” your driveway (or “scooping” a parking lot”).
If you go outside with a shovel and do it manually it is shoveling.
If you go outside with a shovel and do it manually it is shoveling.
Maybe the couple hours made a big difference but my drive to work was easy. City streets weren’t good but they weren’t to bad. Interstates were normal if you stayed in a cleared lane. It took me the same amount of time as normal to get to work.
If I use a scoop to scoop snow, I'm scooping snow. Some people call it a scoop shovel.
If I'm using a show shovel to shovel snow, I'm shoveling snow.
It really comes down to semantics and what people refer to it as.
Another case like soda vs pop.
This is America, we shovel snow, we don't scoop it.
If people saying 'scooped snow' instead of 'shoveled snow' isn't proof we need a border wall I don't know what is.
(I mean a border wall on the Iowa / Missouri border)
If people saying 'scooped snow' instead of 'shoveled snow' isn't proof we need a border wall I don't know what is.
(I mean a border wall on the Iowa / Missouri border)
I plowed my driveway for 2 hours last night because the drifts were pretty big (it was a workout for my 4 wheeler). Then this morning I had to make another pass because of 3 -4 inches overnight.
A side note my wife's work closed again so she's on her 6th day in a row home lol.
A side note my wife's work closed again so she's on her 6th day in a row home lol.
Oh, annual PSA I should have posted last snow storm.
CLEAR YOUR VEHICLE COMPLETELY OF SNOW!!!!!!
Not just the windows....everything. Hood, roof, trunk. You don't want snow flying off the hood onto your windshield, and I don't want a chunk of snow or snow/ice from your roof or trunk to come flying off and hit my windshield.
/rant
CLEAR YOUR VEHICLE COMPLETELY OF SNOW!!!!!!
Not just the windows....everything. Hood, roof, trunk. You don't want snow flying off the hood onto your windshield, and I don't want a chunk of snow or snow/ice from your roof or trunk to come flying off and hit my windshield.
/rant
It mostly comes from the type of shovel or scoop. Most farmers use scoops to move grain around the farm. In rural areas most people call it scooping due to this.
This is a scoop:
I mean, I grew up on a farm. We had a few of those in feed bins. I've heard scoop shovel before but we still said shovel. Maybe "scoop up that wet feed" from my dad but never in reference to snow.
Weirdos.
Yep. Vehicles plow the snow. The face my husband made when I read that post aloud about someone scooping a driveway with a vehicle was great.
Kind of cool. We should develop a map showing the scoop versus shovel areas.
I shoveled $hit on the farm and scooped feed, grain and snow. Never had a snow shovel. Just used the tractor and loader.
Well, I'll admit I probably fit the weirdo tag. When a pickup with a blade was used, that was plowing. But when doing it by hand, it was scooping, but it was done by using a scoop shovel. If one of those fancy shovels from a hardware store was used, that was shoveling. When the tractor with the front end loader was used, that was also considered scooping. I have no idea why...must be the weirdo in me, lol.
