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<blockquote data-quote="Marked" data-source="post: 289446" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>On the subject of shovels -</p><p></p><p>One mistake many people make when using a long handled shovel is in technique. A shovel is <u>not</u> a lever. </p><p></p><p>If you expect to be able to shove your long handled shovel straight into the ground and pull back on it with all your weight to loosen hard packed material, you are going to break your handle at some stage. Sooner rather than later if you are soaking timber in a creek while you are working with it.</p><p></p><p>Go easy on any levering action - little forward/backward motions to get the water in the hole rushing in and out and helping to loosen the material if digging in a wet creek bed before trying to pull out the whole lump will see your shovel last forever.</p><p></p><p>Used to dig holes for a living - broke one shovel early on using it as a lever. Altered technique saw the second shovel last until the end of that career, plus 11 years of home use and now three years of digging in creeks and counting ... and when the wife uses it she insists on leaving it out in the rain too, so no special care given to it at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marked, post: 289446, member: 1246"] On the subject of shovels - One mistake many people make when using a long handled shovel is in technique. A shovel is [u]not[/u] a lever. If you expect to be able to shove your long handled shovel straight into the ground and pull back on it with all your weight to loosen hard packed material, you are going to break your handle at some stage. Sooner rather than later if you are soaking timber in a creek while you are working with it. Go easy on any levering action - little forward/backward motions to get the water in the hole rushing in and out and helping to loosen the material if digging in a wet creek bed before trying to pull out the whole lump will see your shovel last forever. Used to dig holes for a living - broke one shovel early on using it as a lever. Altered technique saw the second shovel last until the end of that career, plus 11 years of home use and now three years of digging in creeks and counting ... and when the wife uses it she insists on leaving it out in the rain too, so no special care given to it at all. [/QUOTE]
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