When using a garden spade, it is important to use proper technique to avoid injury and to get the best results. This may include using your body weight to help push the spade into the soil and using your legs to lift and move the soil.. Digging tools are essential in gardening and landscaping projects, they are used for excavating foundation, trenches for utility lines, and holes for fence posts and plants.

On December 16th, the British in Montevideo got a message from Commodore Harwood asking them to do all they could to stop the Graf Spee from sailing. International law again helped the British. If a merchant ship sailed from a neutral harbour, any warship from a combatant nation (in this case the Germans and the British) could not sail for 24 hours – effectively giving a merchant ship a 24-hour start ahead of a warship. The Uruguayans were informed that the ‘SS Ashworth’, a British merchant ship in Montevideo, was sailing on the evening of December 16th and the Uruguayans accepted this. However, a ship like the Graf Spee would easily catch up with any merchant ship even with a 24 hours start. McCall and Miller even contemplated some sort of sabotage to the Graf Spee’s rudder (“the means were available”) but decided against it as a great deal of the world’s media was reporting what was happening. Any negative press release would have been damaging to the Royal Navy and would give the Germans an excellent propaganda opportunity.Garden spades typically have a long, straight handle made of wood or metal, and a flat, rectangular blade made of steel. The blade is usually about 6-8 inches wide and 12-16 inches long, and is designed to be sharp enough to cut through soil and roots. The blade may also be slightly curved to help with digging and scooping.

An auger, which is one of the types of digging tools, is a drill-like tool used to bore large and deeper holes in the ground. It is commonly powered by electricity, gasoline, or manual force. This auger is particularly useful for digging holes for tree planting, installing large plants, or creating post holes in hard soil or clay. Spading Spade: The Newcastle Drainer is the perfect tool for making holes in the ground, deep narrow trenches, cable, pipe and drainage channels or for digging post holes. The tough, long, narrow blade has built in treads for leverage and its shape also makes it a very good tree planting tool.

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Whether you are a professional gardener or an enthusiastic homeowner, digging tools are indispensable for gardening and horticulture, they help with tasks like preparing garden beds, planting trees, flowers or shrubs and removing weeds and vegetation. Bulldog’s unique heat treatment and finishing after the forging process means that their shovels have added strength and flexibility in the blade due to being reheated and then plunged into a cold nitrate salt bath which ‘re-tunes’ the structure of the steel.