Abstract
A domestic labour survey was carried out for snow removal from a passage between garage and front-gate at the author's home in a winter of 1966-67. Severe snow storms occured in that winter enabled to take data in comparatively wider range of the depth of new snow. The time (t in min.) required for one man to remove snow from about 50 m2 was found to be related with the depth of new snow (d in cm) in such a linear regression as follows,
t=10. 6+1. 53d.
Properties of snow, density, hardness and water content did not affect much to the time as far as the work was done with new snow, but removal of hard snow deposited at the gate by public snowploughs was time consuming. A comparative survey was carried out on various home equipments for snow removal used in Hokkaido. Usefulness of the bamboo snowshovel was emphasized.
