This product is advertised as having been produced domestically, which I find amusing since it's basically a rod of metal with sort of a crude blade affixed to one end. It works ok. Handle could use more padding. Will probably last forever if you keep an eye on it.

This thing is an animal. I used it to great effect this winter on an icy sidewalk and driveway where ice thickness varied between half an inch and about 3 inches. It's extremely durable, takes a pounding, and just the right weight. The blade is thick enough and has just the right edge on it. I highly recommend this tool for ice-slaying. If Worf didn't have an Bat'leth, this would be his weapon of choice. Every good Klingon should have one.

Bought late season so only a couple of hours of use, but it did a good job...especially moving ice that was slightly separated from the surface (NOTHING works on ice that is sealed to pavement). I don't think a 5 star ice chopper exists, but this thing is solid and will outlast its owner.

Looks and feels pretty heavy duty. The weld is not the prettiest thing, but it looks solid enough. The thickness of the steel both in the blade and in the handle inspires confidence, both for effectiveness in breaking ice and in long-term durability.

Used this to clear thin ice as well as pretty thick ice patches after we had a day in the 50s with heavy rains, followed by a couple of single digit nights and sunny, 20s days. Most of the ice got scraped easily off the concrete driveway and paths, with very little effort in pushing. Some more stubborn and thick patches needed some pounding to loosen them up. So far, probably most every scrapper would work about the same. And for this easy ice the only disadvantage of this scrapper is that it's relativity narrow, requiring more passes to scrape large areas.

And then I came to tackle the melted snowmen that the kids have built on the edge of the driveway. These snowmen didn't fare well with the aforementioned rain, and worse yet got run over quite a few times when entering and exiting the garage, really compacting the snow. The ice there reached well over 4 inches in thickness of well compacted ice that was stubbornly hanging on to the rough (broomed texture) concrete of the driveway. Some energetic pounding later, the ice was in pieces and the scraper looked none the worse for wear.Same story with another compacted patch on the corner of the driveway where it meets the road, where the city snowplowed drifts got run over every time a car entered or exited the driveway. For this type of ice the narrower blade of this scraper helped in concentrating the force to a smaller ice patch, making the job easier.

Chopped through 6 inch deep ice that covered the driveway for the last month here on the north coast. Definitely recommend!