Spoon Shovel

This, my friends, is your money shovel.  This is the one that gets the work done.  The one that rips up the heavy soils.  Pries on the tree roots.  Works as a lever on those boulders that are too big to lift.

Also called a round point shovel, the spoon shovel more than any other shovel should be the one you’re willing to spend a little extra money for.

As the name suggests and the picture at right confirms, the head of the shovel is rounded, like the shape of a spoon.  It’s the rounded point that allows the shovel the more easily penetrate soils, allowing for a deeper dig per shovel and greater material removal.

We like to occasionally put the digging edge of the shovel to a grinding wheel to keep the edge sharp.  They seem to dig better that way.

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