Razor-Back^® Steel Spades

Solid product, cuts deep into soil and doesn't bend or break without unreasonable prying. We use them for bare root planting and they work well even in hard clay soils.

Get this spade, if you have digging to do, just get it. It's an absolute workhorse. I ground a blade on mine and it works just as well as shovels twice the price. It makes a heck of transplanting tool and cuts through small to medium roots like a champ, it'll muck out drains and culverts like it's going out of style. Just prepare yourself and eat your wheaties cause it's heavy. Sturdy, tough, and takes no prisoners but, don't skip gym day.

This heavy-duty spade has become my go-to for chopping and digging through tough, compacted material. It works great in hard clays, fragipans, saprolite, ortstein, and many other materials. You can use it to quickly punch holes in geotextile. My one issue is that the foot pads break off relatively easily, but the overall construction is absolutely solid.