Sounds silly. Who can’t dig with a round-point shovel? Mostly everyone that hasn’t done a lot of it. (At least efficiently) I helped my neighbor find his water leak and he says “I’d have been there a week finding that!” I believed him. A full size round-point shovel would be top 10 items in my survival kit. No levering with it allowed! I’ll try to explain techniques but it might be difficult.
And as a sister shovel in snow country is an aluminum scoop shovel, that being a small flat nosed shovel with full length handle.
I was once dumbfounded at one of my BIL's that couldn't hit a nail with a hammer... 'course he was good at golf. I am not.
Bucket of sand with oil for final cleaning and something to sharpen it if needed should be in everyone's shop, shed, or garage. I've found that taking care of your tools makes them work easier so you can work with a bit less effort.
There are digging shovels and pitching shovels, neither can replace the other, and if you don't know the difference, you shouldn't be shoveling! And let's not get into the flat points, there are as many of those as one could ever need, none very good at digging. Favorites would be an extra large chip shovel, a medium cement shovel, followed by a medium ash shovel! For digging, a good ol fashioned falster strait handle and a medium two handed pitchin shovel should be in every garage or tool shed!
Oil and sand works, hangers for pick or other headed tools, wood and floor will rot them out in few years, like a little linseed oil and turp on handles in fall, let dry real well and then smooth out. If SHTF would want about 20 pointed sand shovels, they wear out in about 3 to 4 years, either too short if repointed or get birds beak shape and don't work. Buy them at concrete place, not home depot etc, wood handle, others don't break but are heavy and hard on hands if you aren't wearing gloves, if proper steel the point will flex and bend a bit and pop right back, good ones are a pleasure to use.. Flat shovels work best on concrete or wood floor. Of course all are used to load material into cart, wheelbarrow, or sled. Number one survival tools are all hand tools, no power, no oil, no fuel, if properly cared for long life, silent and no smoke to give yoiu away. Need at minimum axe or three, hatchet, froe, splitting maul, a couple of pick axes, grub hoes, bill hooks, several hoes for chopping weeds, pointed ones for making seed furrows, thin ones for cutting off weeds just below surface, rakes for smoothing soil bed, picking up leaves, gathering hay or grain into furrows, covering seeds, and such. Then you need tined forks to pick up hay, leaves, compost, grains and other crops if you are raising and don't forget potato fork if raising them. While a firearm may well defend what you have, a good collection of hand tools can keep you warm, feed you, feed and clean out your animal sheds, build the things you need and just make life a lot more comfortable if things fall apart and I find very helpful in making life comfortable now. The best place I have found to buy hand tools is at garage sales as the idiot children get rid of tools of a quality that is not even available anymore for 50 cents each as they don't know why dad or grand dad ever kept such junk for so many years. YMMV
Some of those I don’t recognize. Maybe this should be your thread. MansionTools.com : Kenyon Steel Backfill Rake : Tools & Instruments I have these too, at home and work. Most peeps have never heard of them.
Nah, I was thinking about a friend whom tried to get his knot-headed boy up in his boat to help out with an oil change. The boy told him all he had to do was google it if he had to do the work. The knot-head walked away. I told him to tell knot-headed boy to google how his lazy ass was going to get in that boat next fishing trip.
Lol, Use the water-hose to smooth out that cement, Stretch it out, Start on one corner with a man on each end. Pull it back and forth like 2 men on a saw, You will be surprised how well it works. Down da bayou that water hose is also called a ''hose-pipe'' If someone says catch the hose-pipe, It means grab the water hose.
That would be a "comealong" when I was laboring for the finisher. Well, if it had some fingers on the back to hook and lift the screens, it would be anyhow.
Some pix of the tools would be welcome so all may follow ! One of mine , manual also worked by myself : S
We use a 2x4 for screeding out the concrete , like a saw,, @ Ghrit ,,, some of them tools do have the hook on it for grabbing the wire to lift it up ,, never heard it called a come a long ,, different parts of the country have different names I reckon.
gawd how I hated the jitterbug. They'd load up with mud and get heavy. Also, mostly used 2x4 for screeds on walkways, but driveways were a different bouillabaisse.
From now on I shall tell the Mr I don't know the difference, therefore he will have to do all the shoveling around here. Made my freakin DAY!
