Mud shovel - photo

[Jon]

Mud shovel.

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Previously:

3-string guitar made from shovel
Shoveling 7-foot columns of snow - GIF
Grasping claw garden shovel - GIF
Shovel laddder - GIF
Two-man push-pull railroad ballast shoveling technique - GIF
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...847#post148479
Seed planting shovel - GIF

[neilbourjaily]

A hateable tool if ever there was one.

[Toolmaker51]

Shoveling mud.....sounds like pushing a rope.
Long ago my planters and garden plot had substantial amount of 3/4 crushed aggregate stones. I built a tray combined of perforated and expanded metal to filter out larger bits. Adding a perforated shovel would have sped up work. But I'd have used a square point.
Over time, likely processed somewhat in excess of a cubic yard.

[neilbourjaily]

Any digging that goes "tink" is hard digging. I, too, screened dirt, er soil, for my raised beds. I built my screen from scrap wood and hardware cloth.

[Crusty]

Two tools that are hardly ever stolen - shovels and post hole diggers.