On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:17:20 -0800, "Dave@FNQ" wrote:

Use a sharp shovel/spade (what is the technical difference??)

A shovel is used for 'shovelling' things, that is to move things from one
place to another (like soil or gravel) generally square mouth (the big wide
ones that are crap for moving gravel but good for soil).
A spade is used for digging holes or trenches.
Things get blurry when you have a 'round mouth shovel' as they are really
good for digging holes, and trenching shovels are really good for digging
errrm trenches.
So just do what I do, and that is get a round mouth shovel and use it for
everything.

Spades are generally narrower and have a lip that you can use to
stand/jump on to dig into the ground without slicing your shoe in
half.