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I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 12:40:09 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2009 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Check this out. Has this ever happen to anyone else in the forum? I was pushing the shovel in when part of it broke off right under my foot! Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane Post #: 1

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 12:40:51 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2009 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Here's the rest of it Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 2

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 12:58:13 AM    JGUIS   Posts: 1695 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline call _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 3

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 1:03:50 AM    Shagnasty   Posts: 271 Joined: 8/4/2006 From: Newark Ohio Status: online nope never seen that before!     what did you do to that poor thing   well i guess by lookin at the holes you dig that shovel has a lot of miles on it......wore out a shovel.....thats good stuff man       keep tearin it up! later        shagnasty (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 4

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 1:11:55 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2009 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Thanks for the compliment Shag. Problem is I bought it 3 weeks ago at the flea market . I was looking for a lighter shovel and now I have one. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to Shagnasty) Post #: 5

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 1:30:25 AM    madman   Posts: 4566 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: online man those digging tools really can take a beating ! and how about all the hand rakes and cutters that got burried!! way over 100 bucks for me, cave ins, ive had good luck with razor back products m- (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 6

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 3:26:21 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2009 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline I had heard about these guy that had tunneled under a road out of site digging last winter and when they went back the hole caved in on all their tools. Lucky it was just the tools that were in that hole when it came down. I wonder how many guys have actually been killed digging for old bottles? _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to madman) Post #: 7

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 7:39:33 AM    bikegoon Posts: 663 Joined: 10/2/2006 From: Lebanon, Ohio Status: offline Trusty partner it was, many bottles later.... _____________________________ A little of everything at http://www.bottlecache.com (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 8

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 8:55:43 AM    brokenshovel   Posts: 430 Joined: 8/29/2005 From: Westminster Maryland Status: offline Wow, that's pretty good!  I usually just break the handles off of bust the tines off the rakes. (in reply to bikegoon) Post #: 9

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 9:03:36 AM    CanadianBoy   Posts: 657 Joined: 7/25/2004 Status: offline Being close a couple of times,found lots of bones of livestock...or in their case deadstock mm. Just got to buy good tools,the army surplass digging tool is good for close work. _____________________________ So many Dumps,so little time. So get DIGGING. I've been "DOWN IN THE DUMPS" since 1970. Never dug a dump, I didn't like. "May you all Dig well and Prosper" http://www.nexicom.net/~djackson/ Dave J. Ontario,Canada. (in reply to brokenshovel) Post #: 10

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 9:30:52 AM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Higher grade shovels are more prone to do that than the softer cheeper ones. The cold weather doesn't help either. I have had a few weired shovel breaks while digging foundations for hauses but the handle usually goes long before the blade when digging bottles. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to CanadianBoy) Post #: 11

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 1:46:33 PM    baltbottles   Posts: 829 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline It happens. I wear out the head in about a year on the cheaper shovels. I also have a problem with these new chinese made shovel heads that most of the companies are useing now. they tend to bend and split. I'd say on average I buy 2-3 shovels a year and usually have to make a new probe every year also they wear down. I'm not talking about the tip I'm talking about the probe shaft itself keeps getting shorter usuallu 6-8 inches after a heavy year of probing and digging. Then theres i don't know how many pairs of gloves i go through. Chris _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 12

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 1:57:31 PM    bikegoon Posts: 663 Joined: 10/2/2006 From: Lebanon, Ohio Status: offline Any thoughts on the fiberglass handled ones? _____________________________ A little of everything at http://www.bottlecache.com (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 13

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 2:06:29 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4721 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Its all those old ford pintos we are shipping to China as scrap. They are coming back to haunt us as substandard digging tools. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to bikegoon) Post #: 14

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 2:31:51 PM    Bottleman Posts: 851 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline Fiberglass handles? I personally don’t like them at all. I stick with the old fashion wooden handles. The only fiberglass shovels I have used though have been craftsman and they break all the time. Yea, you can return them for a free one but in my opinion they are not as durable as wood. Also if you are digging in the rain, the fiberglass gets really slippery and it’s hard to get a firm grip. Because the handles are hollow, if a heavy rock falls on them lots of times they will split and crack. ~~Tom (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 15

RE: I.D. this shard(pay attn. Brokenshovel) - 12/6/2006 7:21:46 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2009 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline By the way this was one of those fiberglass jobs... I broke the handle off of my "unbreakable" Fiberglass handled shovel a few weeks ago also. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what brand makes a light ( I stress the word light too) durable Spade? < Message edited by zanes_antiques -- 12/6/2006 7:22:43 PM > _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 16

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