Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452
Once we get a thaw we rake it up with a plastic rake that doesn't tear up the lawn. Otherwise the snow keeps it covered. When its in ice we just wait or use a garden shovel to chisel it out.
This is what we do as well. When snow piles upon snow all winter and the pups often go find some big drift to go in, well nothing is going to make me go out in -20 wind chills and go rooting and digging for it in 1-2 feet of snow and ice. The best thing to do is wait for spring thaw, it still freezes a night, so if you wait till the snow is mostly melted and then go out in the earlier morning before things have re-thawed again it's easier to get up the frozen nuggets. At least the ones not trapped under the ice.

This is what the yard can become when it's the thaw/freeze, thaw/freeze time of year. It's treacherous to walk on and very difficult to get to anything to clean it up.