Types of shovels
Shovel in its purpose is:
- Bayonet - it is flat, pointy. The most widely used in earthwork and in agriculture. For convenience, it has special bent pivots on top, on which they press a foot.
- Shovel - it has a square shape. It is most often used for working with various bulk materials, such as sand, gravel, coal, grain.
- For snow removal - this is one of the variants of the shovel. The most common materials are plywood, aluminum and plastic.
- Scoop - a special tool with a short handle. Used to collect garbage.
Each species has its own purpose, but in everyday life their functions are often intertwined. So, the shovel can be used without difficulty to clean snow, and the snow shovel - for loading sand or grain. Bayonet shovels in the farm can serve as a chopping tool. In this connection, it is necessary to choose only qualitative tools in order to exploit them for many years.
How to choose the right shovel?
The first thing that you should pay attention to when selecting - it's convenience, reliability and durability. If the shovel is heavy, then it will be difficult and inefficient to work with it for a long time. At the same time, a very light shovel can be unreliable.
A bayonet shovel with a handle is required for excavation. This type of work gives a very heavy load, so you should pay attention to the quality of steel and the grade of wood from which the stem is made. A hardwood stem is best. The bayonet is made of steel, stainless steel and, at times, titanium.
The steel should be thick enough and well sharpened. According to their configuration, bayonets are simple and with jagged ends( for work with lawns).
Shovel shovels are used for gardening: composting in the soil. In construction they are necessary for carrying and unloading materials. As a result, the tool receives a lot of strain on the junction of the shovel and the cuttings. When choosing a shovel, this point should be given special attention.
It is checked as follows: grasping the handle, lowering it by the length of the arm and pressing it with the foot in the middle of the bayonet. The bayonet must spring!
Materials for the cutting and its manufacture
How to make the shovel for the shovel reliable and convenient? To deal with this issue, it is necessary to know the advantages and disadvantages of wood varieties, from which cuttings are produced. Often the material for them is the waste of other wooden products. You can find cuttings of ash, pine, oak, poplar, birch, etc.
The most common are cuttings from pine. The main advantage of pine is lightness, which makes the shovel more comfortable.
Another plus is that it is not afraid of moisture and durable, thanks to the saturation of natural resins. However, pine is one of the most fragile materials. Because of this, under heavy loads, the cutting can break.
Many experts recommend cuttings from birch. This wood is light enough, while it is more resistant to loads. It is important that when drying, it is easily ground, which minimizes the possibility of formation of skaloks, and as a result, the risk of splintering is reduced. Beech is an excellent substitute for birch, but it must be further processed to protect it from rotting, as natural resins in this wood are very small.
We offer to consider a step-by-step instruction on the rapid production of the cuttings:
- Find a suitable length of the workpiece from the chosen tree species.
- With the help of a hand tool or an electric drill, we work the surface of the workpiece until it becomes one thickness without any burrs.
- One end of the handle with an ax is slightly sharpened. It is in this place that the shovel itself will be connected to the handle.
- In order to avoid injuries during the operation of the tool, it is recommended to finish the work by treating the cuttings with fine emery paper. So you will achieve the smoothest surface of the holder.