Tools for snow

I show you some tools for snow.  I discussed with joesblips who is born in Ireland.  He told that on British isles there are not all such tools for snow as we have (except perhaps on mountains).
1. Here on the left you see a small shovel made of aluminium. I have bought it 24 years ago when we hiked on mountains in winter time.  The main reason for it is for safety purposes that you can dig someone from snow if needed.  Nowadays I keep it in my car in winter if I happened to slip from the road.  Actually this is quite small for that purposes, but anyway better than nothing.  
2. A shovel made of steel.
3. A shovel made of aluminium.
4.A shovel made of plastic
5. Kola.

Depending on the kind of snow you can use different tools.  Near the main road big machines have cleared the road and  if the snow has been wet and then frozen it can be hard  almost like concrete.  There you have to use the steel shovel.
If the snow is not so hard,  but hard anyway, there the shovel of aluminium is good.  In soft snow the plastic shovel is better, because you can take to it bigger amounts of snow.
   But the best of all is Kola.  Joesblips told that on British Isles, except on mountains, you would need a Kola once in five years for one day.  In Finland we may use it every year for half a year and in Lapland even longer time.
  Here you see mrs Akkuv using Kola.  It is absolutely an efficient tool,  you can have lots of snow in it.  But it needs a person with lots of strength.  It is quite heavy to use.  But if you need to clear a yard with tens of cubic meters of snow or more this is the most efficient tool.  Actually most people in this situation call a person who has a tractor with
a bucket.  Here in the countryside they would regard people like us as crazy people when we don't call a tractor to clean the snow off.
Counted together the time mrs Akkuv and I used, it took five hours to clean the yard of snow.

I wonder if some blippers from  northern part of USA or Canada  know a tool like kola?  If they know, I were interested to know how they call it.