After an especially snowy winter in Clark, William “Cody” Lynn had had enough of shoveling.
“This last winter I threw my back out about three times throwing snow over the ten feet of snow pack,” Lynn said with a laugh. “You’re out there for a couple of hours throwing snow. If you want to leave the house, you have to go throw some snow. ”
That grueling effort was only made worse, Lynn said, by the snow that stuck to his shovel each time he went to lift it up.
“The five, 10, 20 pounds of random snow,” Lynn explained. “It gets to be a serious workout.”
So, he decided there was something he could do, and potentially sell too. He started to wax his shovels with hydrophobic wax, helping the snow slide right off while he was shoveling.
“ShovelWax is the all-natural solution to snow stickin’ to snow shovels,” Lynn proudly exclaimed to your Mountain Reporter Spencer Wilson.
He makes the stuff at home, thanks to some serious tech and investment to melt 50 gallons of wax at a time. ShovelWax became his job, as creator and manufacturer, marketer, and distributor all out of Clark, Colorado.