Good work, 2J!! What's a barn scraper? I was hacking on my ice with a garden hoe and getting nowhere!
After admiring Becky's bird feeders pics I hung a suet feeder on the tree with a nail, all I've gotten so far is about a dozen starlings (sigh).
I'm not sure how to describe it! Ours is a metal tool...the handle is metal, it attaches to a a metal blade that you can push in front of you and scrape out a barn, apparently. Steve found it in the road.
I would slam the metal blade into the ice until it would fracture, then wedge up the ice and pick it up and throw it aside.