High Quality Shovel

[grizzlyj]

I bought a nice steel shovel last year that seemed perfect until its first proper use, by crikey is it heavy!!!

I now think a strong plastic shovel for volume, and an entrenching tool (the german one with small pick too) for breaking up harder stuff, is a better compromise. Its hardly going to get hours of use every day is it, so if the plastic job is actually better for sand and snow, no vehicle damage, and I've made slightly harder work if I have to break up hard ground before shovelling I can live with that! The plastic type I have unscrews into two bits, and is common on fuel tankers for shovelling sand after a spill with no sparks. Maybe carry a 4' pry bar too, and, and............

 

[bfdiesel]

The shovel will of course hit you with a bigger surface area so I'm sure won't hurt as much

I would rather get hit by a pipe than sliced open by a shovel. A shovel is also more likely to catch you as it is much wider.

It turns an already dangerous tool into a much more dangerous tool.