Fiskars Long Handle Digging Shovel #9668
Awesome but not indestructable,
The is by far the best shovel ever. It will chew through the toughest soil, destroy any roots in the way and upheave most stones that would give inferior shovels a problem. But like all tools, it's not indestructable. I made the mistake of leveraging it against concrete and applying my 200+ pound frame on the other side in an attempt to uproot a tree for transplanting. Thinking my best friend in the garden was indestructable was a miscalculation and I ended up bending it at the leverage point. Oops! So now I'm off to buy 2 more now that I'm a bit smarter (next time I'll go grab the prybar) and I know exactly what my shovel can handle. BTW, any other shovel would have been utterly destroyed in this situation, my bent heavy duty shovel is still capable of turning soil but it's transplanting days are over. The other reviews have it right. When you grab for this shovel, you know it was designed for work.
Fiskars Long Handle Digging Shovel #9668
