The choice of floor scraper — whether a ride-on or a walk-behind machine — is critical, but it’s easy to overlook the blade, or shank. It’s a common misconception that scraper is delivered ...

When a scraper blade loses its sharpness, floor removal time can double. A blunt blade is more likely to glide along the top of the floor, rather than pulling it up.

Among the shared features are a sharp scraper blade with crushing teeth for breaking up thick ice; a snow brush that pivots 90 degrees to the handle, so you can push rather than sweep snow and put ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and ...