Drive front edge with right foot adding penetrating power, then a backface down pry, and final toss. Body stance is parallel to fishtail face. Use legs not shoulders for power.
Month: April 2023
Crimson clover needs a spring cleanup after winter.
Before cleanup
After cleanup
Narrow fishtail spade easily turns the debris cleanup chore into a pleasant activity in the garden.
Sweep stroke grading soil on path
Fishtail
Push stroke advances the front edge forward to find a working grade. Pull back and advance again cracks hard packed soil. Use pry down at the end of push stroke to add leverage power to the soil breaking action.
Shovel dominant design is the round pointed shovel and various flat scoop shovels. The end of innovation is Taylorism and access to non-human power equipment and tools. Taylorism systemized human power material shoveling through time and motion studies with the goal of profitability. Enjoyment and health for the human labour is not a priority.
Fishtail lineage begins when a shovel head meets an angle grinder cutoff disc
. Design began using a sledege hammer and steel wedges for wood splitting, as explorartion geologist the rock hammer was always in my hand. With out a rockhammer in hand there was an absence of the trade. the hammer blow exposes fresh rock chips. scythes, dutch hoe
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