That shovel

So do any of you good people out there watch time team, if so does anyone know where phil Harding ( the fella that does all the digging) got that shovel from?

I've been searching for ages trying to find one !

Cheers

 

I do, but I can't picture the shovel. Is it a long handled one with a D shaped blade?

 

it's a long T handle One with a square blade more like a spade than a true shovel I think it has a swan neck but don't quote me on that

 

Not the American Shovel I was thinking of then.

 

No I have one of those there good for digging out shrubs

 

I bought a spade handle from a country fair a while ago. It had been steamed into a swan neck towards the business end, after I bought it the chap asked me If I knew what I had bought? He told me it was the handle for a stoker's shovel. The idea of the swan neck was so the stocker didn't scrape his knuckles on the boilerhouse floor while lifting the last of the coal!

It has gone now I'm afraid, but I'm still on the lookout for another.

Cheers, Tony.

 

Page 7 bottom right hand corner? http://www.humbermerchants.co.uk/downloads/hand/Carter catalogue.pdf


P.S. Something I found the other day - Insulated rabbit shovel For digging out electric hares perhaps?

 

Actually the long T handled on on page 4 of that link is close to it but not quite

 

That's the best pic of it I can find .. If indeed I up loaded it right.