Need a snow plow now? Make one the Pa. way - with a lawn mower and cardboard box

Becky Metrick
York Daily Record

He didn’t need any fancy equipment to help him easily plow his drive — just a little ingenuity. Pennsylvania ingenuity.

A video posted on Facebook by Kaitlynn Toporzycki, who lives in Chambersburg, during the winter of 2017-18 shows Jonathan Schill, her fiancé, plowing a driveway with a lawnmower and a cardboard box.

Schill was 15 minutes into his snow shoveling that day when he decided he needed a snow plow, just after the first big snow of the season. Having just moved, he only had a shovel, a much larger driveway than before, and no access to a plow.

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He looked in his garage and found a box to a 50-inch TV - cardboard with a shiny coating - and decided to see if he could fasten it to his lawn mower.

The video of what happened next has been viewed over 10 million times.

Watch the video below:

"My first thought was I didn't really intend to do this to be funny, I did it to save myself from being tired and all that," Schill said in January 2018. "I really didn't expect it to be this big."

Toporzycki said she loves that the video shows off her fiance's creativity, even if it is something silly.

"We're simple people, so it's not every day that our posts gets shared," Toporzycki said. Most notably, she saw her video shared by comedian Jeff Foxworthy.

Schill said when he saw that, he questioned "How is it getting so big? It's just a box."