Handyman favorites like snowblowers and riding mowers are there, but so are once-exotic machines like nailers and wood chippers.

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It will allow citizens to organise themselves around snow-clearing activities, adopt a stretch of pavement to clear, offer to share shovels and snowblowers, or even volunteer to clear snow for people who cannot do so themselves.

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