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Originally Posted by Stephen[_7_]
Hello,
I broke our spade trying to dig out some roots. In the past I have
always bought a cheap fork and spade set from somewhere like B&Q. Are
all spades created equal or are the expensive ones better in some way?
I see some are carbon steel and others are stainless steel. I imagine
stainless steel is less likely to rust but in my experience, the
carbon steel ones have not rusted but perhaps that's because they
haven't lasted long enough to rust!
What about forks? I always seem to bend the tines but as with the
spade, that is user-error abusing them to when digging out roots. Are
there any with more robust tines?
One last question: border spades and digging spades. Is the border
spade just a slightly smaller version of the digging spade? Which do
you use, or do you have one of each?
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I find stainless steel good in clay soil as the soil just slips off it - much less heavy to use. Mine is a border spade because it suits my strength level better. Unfortunately it doesn't work well for levering because it has a protective device in the way of a stiff flex point where spade meets handle, which means if you try to lever up something too heavy, it flexes instead of breaking.
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