6th August 2013, 10:04 AM
Always got good mileage out of a few plastic spoons collected with my morning cup of tea. Still got some in my kit from 6-7 years ago. And for your own sake never use a plastic handled mattock, the flex in the shaft will ruin your wrists if you hit something hard (like a buried flint nodule or lump of sneaky concrete) - evil evil things.