22nd July 2005, 07:18 PM
Spade's are usually always ok, sometimes you get the odd bent one but usually they're nice and sharp. Shovels are always stupidly heavy and covered in years of rust that just won't shift....occasionally you find one shoved in a corner that is if a managable weight and easy to use.
Mattocks...now mattocks are never ever right. Usually I find they are so blunt that they won't even go through sand (ok..maybe thats not true...but they're bloody blunt) also, you always get the ones where that mattock head just slides down the handle as you're mattocking..
tut...tools eh, they're never that good.....unless you're on a university training dig...and then they're smashing cos the departments can afford to buy nice spanking new tools.
Mattocks...now mattocks are never ever right. Usually I find they are so blunt that they won't even go through sand (ok..maybe thats not true...but they're bloody blunt) also, you always get the ones where that mattock head just slides down the handle as you're mattocking..
tut...tools eh, they're never that good.....unless you're on a university training dig...and then they're smashing cos the departments can afford to buy nice spanking new tools.