Customer Reviews for RYOBI Expand-It 12 in. Snow Shovel

This works well and throws the snow farther than I thought it would. The problem is that it has no directional vanes so it throws the snow in front of you in a path wider than the blower. This makes it hard to clear larger areas as it puts it back where you have already done. I tried putting it at an angle and it worked with limited success. It was harder to maintain the angle, putting more stress on your arms and back and decreased the width of each pass to 8"-10". Works well for small areas.

This snow shovel is easy to use and meets my expectations .

Makes easy work of our sidewalk and patio.

Great with up to 6 “ or less. Even slushy snow that jams in my big snow thrower Only drawback is it only throws straight ahead Got a solid 40 min run time on my 4 amp battery

Easily to convert weed eater to thrower, works efficiently and with little effort.

It may have it's uses to clear a sidewalk or small deck but is not a replacement for a snow blower, or even a shovel in my case. The path cleared is pretty narrow, the wind can throw the snow in any direction and it didn't get down to the concrete. The third time I tried it, it started doing the "shutdown after 3 seconds" and would only start back up after reengaging the trigger. I returned the unit and went back to shoveling.

It's too heavy and awkward.

It worked great on the deck and porch where we couldn’t use the snowblower.

These were out of stock right around the first snowfall of the season in Michigan. The delivery was excellent when they finally became available, however it would only run for a few seconds then shut off. I switched batteries and still no luck. I kept the unit and the batteries in the house thinking it had something to do with the cold but that didn't help. Trying to get through to service was a nightmare, this was after I registered the blower. I wasted my money!!

Good for light snow. Throw a good distance. Works good with 40volts battery in the cold. Needs a direction shoot so it doesn’t throw to far.

This snow thrower works well in up to 15cm -6'' dry snow ,wet snow or worse you'll waste time splashing slush around . I honestly find it useful instead of lifting snow up onto banks..For tight spaces and small to medium areas really works great . I have come to realize that there are no skid shoes on this tool so the whole plastic frame is subject to wear, wonder how much that with cost to replace? took the metal side plates off to modified by adding some rub material to that area.All in All the tool has its plus and negatives but seems to fit in between shovelin and useing something bigger for the smaller snow amounts. .

Only used 1 bar on my 2 yr. Old battery , finished the front walk and single car driveway. Great product.

Purchased this with my full size snow blower last yr. Worked great. Went to use it this yr and it will not stay running. Acts like the battery is cutting out. Runs then cuts out Release the trigger try again same thing. Runs then cuts out. Battery's work fine in my other 40 V tools i have. Disappointed.

A little to heavy @ not to good on sticky snow

I purchased this item on 1/13 with a “Order by xxx time and receive Monday 1/15”. This was well before our next snow event. Well, as Monday came it hadn’t shipped yet and received an email that it was shipping on 1/15. It didn’t leave the facility until 1/17 and was to be delivered today. Now I get a notification that it’s delayed due to Severe Weather. Very poor delivery information on this item

I bought this product very skeptical as we barely got any snow last year. I have a bad back so shoveling doesn’t work so well for me. This is a little heavy to move around but as the title says, better than shoveling. We got 6” of snow twice in the last week and it worked well. It will not get rid of the packed down snow where you drive your car over top of the snow or walk but it works well on the rest of it. Got right down to the pavement.