Fiskars 9668 Long Handle Digging Shovel
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Manufacturer: FiskarsBrand: Fiskars
Edition: Lawn & Patio
Model: 9668
Publisher: Fiskars
Studio: Fiskars
Music Label: Fiskars
Product features:
- Ideal for heavy-duty digging needs
- Oversized step for additional leverage and comfort
- Unique teardrop shaped shaft is comfortable and easy to grip
- Pre-sharpened, ready to use blade
- Lifetime warranty
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Description of Fiskars 9668 Long Handle Digging Shovel
This all-steel shovel is the perfect tool for all of your heavy-duty digging needs. A sharpened blade cuts into hard ground with ease, and an oversized step provides a comfortable platform for your foot to maximize your digging power. The welded steel construction makes this shovel virtually unbreakable, and a powder coat prevents rust and makes it easy to keep your shovel clean. It even includes a padded, teardrop-shaped handle to help reduce hand fatigue. Lifetime warranty.The Fiskars long handle digging shovel features an all-steel construction for heavy-duty strength and durability. The shovel's blade features an oversized step for additional leverage and comfort, and comes pre-sharpened to cut through the ground easier. Ideal for personal or professional use, the teardrop-shaped shaft provides ergonomic comfort and control during use. For added strength, the blade itself is directly welded onto the shaft, and the entire shovel is powder-coated to prevent rust. This tool comes with a limited lifetime warranty.
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Fiskars 9668 Long Handle Digging Shovel
Customer Review: Great Shovel: Here is why...
Summary: 5 Stars
I am extremely happy with this shovel. As you can see from the pictures, it consists of two pieces: First is the shovel head and the second is the one-piece stainless steel handle. The two are welded together at the end of the handle and also where the handle meets the end of the shovel-head (where the digging tabs are).
This makes for a very strong shovel!
So why is this good, vs a more conventional and cheaper one?
No matter what you do, wood handles are weakest where they are joined to the shovel head. This is typically done by shoving the wood handle down into a steel sheath, then bolting them together. At the joint under pressure, the wood will try to bend. However, the steel sheath does not allow any bending which adds a lot of extra stress to that wood.
Fiberglass handles have helped somewhat. However, note that fiberglass handles are HOLLOW. They are very strong and very resistant to breaking by bending them. However, they are not as resistant to a crushing force applied (such as if you dropped an anvil on them). Imagine the plastic straw... it is resistant to bending, but not so much if you pinch it with your fingernail.
You therefore have the same effect with a fiberglass handle; the steel sheath digs into the fiberglass. Once that fiberglass cracks or bends, its structural integrity goes out the window.
Another shovel I have seen looked really strong, but they secured the fiberglass handle with 4 small steel tabs! This is idiocy as those tabs will dig into the fiberglass as the shovel is used which will weaken the handle over time.
Therefore, this shovel can be used to pry rocks and tree roots out of the ground to a certain extent. You can apply a lot more pressure to this shovel than with any other one by far!
This doesn't mean that it is indestructible though. If you sufficiently abuse the shovel, it could bend. Since it is not a solid steel, it is shaped to give it maximum strength.
Imagine a straw again. Its hollow shape gives it a lot more strength than if it was not hollow and just a long plastic toothpick effectively (using the same amount of plastic)
As you bend the hollow straw, it will eventually fail somewhere and the circular shape now becomes flat at that point. Even when you bend the straw back, you notice it is significantly weaker at that point. No matter what you do, it will always fail at that point when you bend it.
Therefore you have to be reasonable. This is NOT a giant crowbar. Get a San Angelo bar for that, which is 6 feet of tempered solid steel.
The shovel only weighs 3.4 pounds! That is not a whole lot! I thought I would need a 'light duty' shovel and only use this sparingly. But this is definitely not the case. I am not terribly big, but Ive had no trouble with it. I guess if you were digging lots of light soil, then a lighter shovel might be beneficial. But, I am perfectly happy with this shovel.
The only minor issue is that this shovel is NOT sharpened. The end of the shovel is rounded, not sharpened, then the entire head is painted. With its extra heft, this is generally not an issue. However, if you are digging through tree roots then you might want to sharpen it.
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