Fiskars 9668 Long Handle Digging Shovel
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Fiskars 9668 Long Handle Digging Shovel
Customer Review: Best shovel ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned this shovel for two years and I'm here to say that it's the best constructed shovel I've ever seen. I've broken fiberglass and wood-handled shovels. I've had them come apart at the handle-blade connection. Not this shovel. All metal construction, the handle is all one piece and welded to the blade. The most important aspect of a shovel is it's ability to leverage out roots and rocks and dirt. It does that in spades ;-) The handle is oddly shaped, yet comfortable. Highly recommended.Customer Review: Best shovel ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the best shovel out there. I bought this shovel last year after breaking 3 during a 2-week period (Digging up an invasive tree taking over my yard) and I have been happy since. It is heavy for some, but the weight works in your favor. No longer do I struggle to get the shovel into the ground, but the weight of the shovel along with the big footholds make this a breeze to use.
Last weekend I dug a 23' X40" walkway down about a foot before pouring concrete. My father in law and I were fighting for this shovel all day! He loved it so much I just bought another one for him!
If you are looking for something dependable, long lasting and one of the last few "good tools" out there, get this. If you want a cheap tool that looks pretty go somewhere else.
Customer Review: Break This One Out For the Ugly Jobs
Summary: 5 Stars
My yard is full of hard clay and lots of rocks. For simple gardening, I can usually get by with a wood- or fiberglass-handle shovel. But if I need to dig down a ways, or pry out a rotted fence pole, or dig out one of the many stumps we have in the mulched area, ordinary shovels break. I went through 2 or 3 a year, even trying to go easy on them. Then I saw this all-steel shovel, for the same price as the others, and tried it. Here's what I found after a couple good work-outs:
- It's not unbreakable, but it will take a lot of hard use. I tried to lever out a medium-sized stump, and could feel the handle start to give as I put my full weight (250 lbs) on it. So it won't replace a 6' steel bar for the big jobs. But it easily dug out many rocks, and a couple of smaller stumps, without a problem.
- It's heavy. No, really, it's heavy! Spend a couple of hours digging with this puppy, and your shoulders will ache like never before. You'll get a lot more done than you could have with other shovels, but you sure are going to feel it.
Bottom line: If you have an ordinary shovel now, and have never broken it, you probably don't need this one. And if you are only going to buy one shovel, don't get this. But if you already have a regular shovel for the day-to-day chores, and need a "nuclear option" for the really ugly jobs, do yourself a favour and buy one of these, before you break any more handles. Very highly recommended.
Customer Review: Called the World's Best Shovel for good reason!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's amazing how much difference a great shovel can make when you've never used a great shovel before. We picked this one up at our local hardware store, thinking that a shovel with a wider heel stand and being made out of one piece of welded steel were both good ideas! What we didn't expect was how much easier and faster shoveling would be with this product!Customer Review: Come on, a shovel is a shovel, right?
Summary: 5 Stars
I never thought I'd be reviewing a shovel, but excelence deserves praise.
Most shovels you can get from a big box stores have lifetime guarentees. That's great and all but if you ever need to use the guarentee than the shovel has fialed, and generally right in the middle of a job that is now on hold until you get another shovel. A lifetime guarentee means nothing if you have to stop work to redeem it. At 220 lbs, I can not see me ever breaking this shovel, despite doing work with this shovel that broke lesser ones. I have certainly put this shovel through it's paces and done more with it than I would have ever thought of with a fiberglass or wood handled one. And, it's not that much heavier either. If you're in the market for a shovel, do yourself a favor - get this shovel.
And, IF you ever do need it - it too comes with a lifetime guarentee. I don't ever see needing it, though.