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Re: spade and shovel (was [romconlang] -able)

From:B Garcia <montrei13@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 23:46
On 4/15/08, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:

> Technically (as I've learned in recent years of construction and > yard-building activities with more-or-less professional assistance) there is > a difference: A spade has a rectangluar blade, with straight easily > sharpenable edge, short (maybe 3ft.) handle with hand-grip at the top. Pros > use it to dig smaller holes (for planting things e.g.), for cultivating and > for edging. The best ones are imported from England-- that nation of > gardeners knows its tools!
Sounds a little like a trenching shovel. Although trenching shovels usually have a narrow blade with a sort of V shape to it. I usually use spade to refer to the small hand shovel used for planting small plants like bulbs and plants in quart pots.
> A shovel has a more bowl-like blade with a > curved edge and a long straight handle, and is used for digging big, deep > holes; the long handle gives better leverage when you're trying to remove > dirt from a deep hole, especially if you the digger are down in the hole.
I have two types of shovels at home. One is the type you describe which I use for big jobs (planting gallon plants or bigger) and the other has a square blade that I use for severing thick rooted weeds or cleaning the topsoil of weeds (it sort of scrapes like a weeding hoe).

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