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What digging tool do you suggest?
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Posted by stoloniferous 6 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 24, 08 at 10:29
| Greetings! I guess I have a "bog" garden now. My backyard is forrested and swampy. This weekend I dug a hole in one of the lower, wetter parts of the swamp, and now I have a muddy little frog-pond. Once the skunk cabbage and jack-in-the-pulpit come in around it, it’s going to be a lovely hidden little pond.
I noticed while digging that the first layer of soggy decomposing stuff came up nicely in big shovel-fulls. But water immediately filled my hole, and when I try to dig below the level of the water, to give the pond a bit more depth, I am able to bring up very little soil because it washes off of the shovel. Is there a digging tool suitable for reaching into water and pulling up mud?
Thanks. . .
There are pictures in my blog if anyone is interested. . .
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Here is a link that might be useful: my blog
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RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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- Posted by kwoods Cold z7 Long Is (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 24, 08 at 11:05
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| Nice! Thanks! :) Does it have a name? |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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It's a perforated shovel. ;)
They're fantastic for clearing drains...
...or bogs. Josh |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| Wow! A perforated shovel! I never even heard of such a thing before. I could really use one digging mud. But all I find online are really expensive ones like $60-100! Way out of my price range for a shovel! Does anybody make/sell a less expensive reasonably priced perforated shovel? |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| Check with ACE Hardware (no, I don't work for them anymore... ;) ) - you can special order items from their catalogues. They might be able to get you a better deal. I've used them for specialized pitch-forks before. Josh |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| Josh, I'll try Ace. Otherwise maybe a person could make one out of an ordinary $10 shovel, altho that's a LOT of holes to drill... |
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| That is a lot of holes to drill... ...but, if one had a drill press or a large hole-punch, it might be worth experimenting. Josh |
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| How about a slotted serving spoon? You know the bigger ones? I got one from the dollar store. |
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| I was removing some wet slurry-like mud yesterday and sure could have used one of these perforated shovels. I'll bet you could drill a few holes in an ordinary $10 shovel and it would work good enough. |
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- Posted by kwoods Cold z7 Long Is (My Page) on
Wed, May 21, 08 at 11:57
| "Does anybody make/sell a less expensive reasonably priced perforated shovel?" You can get what's called a "rice" shovel for around 20 bucks... used for the same purpose but only has a few perfs. |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| kwoods, Yes, I've found that "rice Shovel" googling around. But why make one out of a $10 shovel by drilling a few holes? I'm favoring a long-handled wide blade shovel, good both for digging and dredging up loose stuff. |
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| Well, I bought a wide-blade, long-handle digging shovel yesterday at Menards for $9 (on sale). Unfortunately they were out of the plastic handle ones, so I had to get one with a wooden handle. But that's okay. My neighbor has a drill press and is going to drill some holes in it for me. I might just have a $9 perforated shovel shortly.... |
RE: What digging tool do you suggest?
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| Perfect! the drill press will save a lot of time and mess! Let us know how it goes! Josh |
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