How to Choose and Use Shovels and Other Digging Tools | This Old House
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook gives host Kevin O'Connor advice on shovels and digging holes.
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Drool. Look at the lovely, dark soft earth easily yielding to the shovel in this video. I have clay soil and I'm wondering if my best garden investment would be a jackhammer.
You can improve your soil over time, but takes patience, lots of it. Add sand , plow it, and add as much compost as you can. In 4-5 years you can have a very good, healthy soil. It's pretty much up to you.
That dirt soft asf
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So high right now, are they really explaining how to dig a hole right now with a Boston accent. So . Awesome.
It looks like coffee grounds.
Takes me back to the first day in Basic Combat Engineer School, only it was digging a slit trench, 10 feet long, 4 feet wide and 6 feet deep. but once you got to your unit, they used a backhoe to do it.
Council Tool makes a USFS (forestry service) fire fighting shovel. It has a wooden handle and, the head is forged from a single piece of steel. A few other companies make similar shovels. Some come with fiberglass handles. The next step seems to be all steel shovels.
Wow! Excellent digging technique! Just the video I needed to see what equipment to get next to start my digging career!
"That's a beautiful hole Kevin.
Now if you would just help me bury this carpet that definitely doesn't contain a body , it would be great"
That bar can also take out roots with the blade end. Takes some precision, but man that thing hits hard
Came for the shovels, stayed for the comedy!
Thank you for the tips. Be safe.
Mattock
A mattock /ˈmætək/ is a versatile hand tool, used for digging and chopping, similar to the pickaxe. It has a long handle, and a stout head, which combines an axe blade and an adze (cutter mattock) or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski.
Thanks! Mattock does seem to be used for any tool with a combination of pick/axe/narrow adze/wide adze.
Perfect video!
Thank you!
great video thank you .. gonna plant some trees
Lmfao "I wouldn't say a 10"
They way there's no closure, it just cuts to the next scene.
Comedic editing right there.
It looked like he was using his arms to throw out the dirt instead of using his legs for leverage
I got the fiberglass handled and love it. This is super easy dirt-I've got compacted rock and silt. ☹
thank you for posting this video, I am digging a 6 by 48 foot area out about a foot deep , doing a 6 by 8 area once a week so I don't over do it. I had a melt down because of the invasive vines , but now will get that ax/pick tool , thank you
Not to argue with Roger here but I've never broken a wooden handle shovel... but I've broken a couple fiberglass ones in my day.
Thanks
Should have commented on the wheelbarrow which is just as important as the shovel. He's got the Jackson Contractor barrel with flatless tire. I picked one up at Lowes for about a hundred bucks, assembly required. The Jackson has the bracing steel leg stabilizing bars on the back and a steel plate on the front for dumping.
You don’t think a wheelbarrow with an inflatable tire is better?
@@ssjvillain2736 These flat-less tires have come along way. They're fairly spongy. Fixing a flat in the field is a hassle. I'm glad I got the Jackson WB.
I used to dig graves to 7ft 6in using a Cornish shovel, forged steel blade wooden handle light and strong the idea of using a heavy dead feeling fiberglass handled shovel is a dreadful thought
Sean Casserley you like monster trucks? GRAVEDIGGER!!!!!
don't underestimate the pros of a light weight shovel
This is very useful. Request: You know the 'big iron bar' at 2:21, could you do a longer series on just that, please? I'm curious other than digging big rocks out, I could use for more like put a rock in the middle use it as a 'fulcrum' to lift heavier objects? I would like to hear your opinion. Thank you.
Your question is a year old, but I'll respond. It's a digging bar for yes rocks but also to break up hard ground for holes that go a couple feet deep where the hole is not wide like for fence posts. You can't use that pick for a hole that is only 8-12inches wide. You can use the digging bar as a fulcrum, but it would be hard because of trying to balance anything on that bar. The digging bar is round and not very wide.
@@BritonAD Thank you for the response. I agree. I have been using it for a year now and it is one super helpful item in my toolset. Thank you once again!
Came here looking for the best shovel for my soil
Now I know that I may not need a new shovel, but instead, a pickaxe.
What kind is used for house foundation?
Suggestions for digging into clay soil?
What do you mean ??
Clay is so easy to digg
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy Digging through clay soil is like digging through concrete. Have you not heard of caliche?
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy If it is compacted it is like concrete.
0:37 Figh-Ba-glass
I like a short shovel with a handle.
You use a shovel to move dirt and a spade to dig
Blue Grass made the best shovels!
He who digs a hole for others usually fall in it themselves.
You ever had fibreglass splinters in the webbing between your index finger and thumb. Not recommended
filber glass handle S518
I'm a real underground construction worker and yea this guy is full of shit. I use a wooden handle shovel. Yea it breaks but if you get the deep socket it will last longer. And it's lighter. That heavy shovel will drain you in 2 hrs. Now u don't stomp on the shovel to get it in the ground because you will mess up your work boots and could twist your ankle. And the place where you put your foot at to drive it into the ground needs to be bent in ward like the one he uses. It just makes it easier to dig deeper. It will not get held up in deeper holes.
Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caprock all the way
I planted 50 peacon trees in red dry clay dirt ...would day wooden shovel be best . .... But if u have like these video shows ur one lucky s o b
That long shovel won’t be that much help when u get past 3 feet
What's a spade?
One of four card suits
Wow... An instructional video on how to shovel. Reminds me of when my mother in law was teaching my wife how to boil water 😂
Why won't american people use digging hoes?
I've seen a lot of videos and it seems that the shovels always comes first, but here in Portugal we use hoes a lot.
Greetings.
my job is digging which is fun. i use a cheap 15 dollar shovel from wall mart. i dig all dig all day i have to say that the fibre glass shovel tend to snap more frequently then the wooden shovels. i go through roots and frequently hit rocks and i tend to shovel shovel in a way that you said would burn a person out. im disagreeing with you i just want to say that each person handles there tool in a way thats most comfortable for them and the tool does not really matter
Cheap shovels steel blade heads bend and tear when wedging up
Shovels are for shovelling, spades are for digging.....
First of all who's not going to know how to use hand tools and second spot you should try and use it in a construction site
I wish they would of shot the video doing clay digging much more harder to do
Are they digging in quicksand?? WTF its like liquid soil
rookandpawn that's normal
Hahaha!! Come to Australia and try to dig, it's even worse!
Why does a shovel have three holes on each side ???
He was digging a predug hole, oh yeah their actors
Wow. He looks so healthy here.
GUYS WHO READ THIS PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME..
Why westerners always use a 'shovel' for digging?! 🙄
In my part of the world you can't dig an inch with a shovel no matter how heavy or sharp it is. We always use different kinds of hoes (not that tiny gardening hoes) for digging, clearing hard soil and agricultural purposes. We only use a shovel to move loose sand, concrete mixture and similar things.. so why's this?
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Mattock...
they don't even know how to use a shovel
remember to keep your back straight, proceeds to keep legs straight instead.
Not really accurate boys. Hours worth of searching and reviews show many of these Made in USA fiberglass handle shovels are snapping the first time they are used. Wood handles aren't worse than all these cheap shovels on the market today. The USA steel being used is alloys that are actually breaking the first time they are used as well. Idiots are in charge and trying to save money, resulting in useless products. Sad state of the USA today.
I cringe at the moments that "expert" put a tool near the host's foot.