Probably, even if they want to find a farm in which this garden tool is missing, it is hardly possible to do it. The shovel became an integral attribute of our life, without which it is impossible to perform construction or garden work. With this tool, people learned to use quite a long time, and since then the shovel has been constantly improved, reaching us in modern form. If the main tool of the labor of our ancestors was known to everyone from the school bench "stick-spell" made by craftsmen from the girlfriend, then modern shovels are manufactured on specialized enterprises from special steel grades. Now models made from alloys with titanium adding, which allow such an instrument to work with the hard grounds without breakdowns. Modern products are produced with ergonomic handles that reduce the necessary effort when working.
Types of shovel
Depending on the type of work performed, the shovels are divided into several basic species:
- Bayonet shovels. This type of tool got its name due to the form of its working part. She, like a bayonet, sharpening at the end. This shape of the shovel allows it with a minimal effort to enter deep into the soil layers. For the convenience of pressing on the shovel of the foot, its upper edges bent back at right angles. This tool is indispensable when working in a garden or construction, as it makes it easy to dig the necessary deepening.
- Garden shovels. A fundamentally garden shovel is no different from the bayonet, and serves the same goals. The difference is in the form of a bayonet and a stalk. Garden shovel has a rectangular tip and a special handle on a cutlery, which makes it easier to work. Despite its name, garden shovels are used everywhere.
- Military type. These shovels were designed for use in the army. They have a little different form, as well as a much smaller cutting size. The stalk itself is thinner than in civil models, thickening at the bottom. This form is made for the convenience of moving them. The most famous folding model of military shovel, more known as a spernaya. At the expense of the folding cutter, it is easily transported, and it is convenient to work comfortably even in a lying position, which is very important during the opposition in combat conditions. But in peacetime, such a shovel got spread. Tourist models of shovels of bayonet shortened are even supplied with saws, toporists and other useful options.
- Police view or "American". This name, this modification of the shovels received for the fact that it has signs of a bayonet shovel - a pointed tip, and the Soviet is the angle between the cutlets and the shovel. This species appeared beyond the ocean. Its convenience lies in the convenience of sweeping soil with digging.
- Soviet shovel. Designed mainly for loading and unloading. It has a stupid tip and a large area of \u200b\u200bthe working surface with curved side ends. This allows you to gain a large amount of bulk materials into it, which speeds up work. Blue shovel rectangular - a separate type of spade, which combines the properties of both types.
Choosing a bayonet shovel
To the selection of bayonet shovels, it is necessary to approach very responsible. The unsuccessful option can not only reduce productivity when working, but also undermine the health. Before you go to the store, you need to assess the scale of excavation works and the type of soil on the site.
- The usual bayonge shovel is suitable for work on a plot with soft soils. Such models are usually manufactured from conventional steel. This is the cheapest type of bayonet shovel, which will serve for a long time with proper care. The fact is that the usual steel over time can fade and give in corrosion. Therefore, such shovels must be sharpened in time and anti-corrosion treatment.
- Under heavy soils that contain rock rocks, it is better to use a bayonet reinforced shovel. Such models have special rigidity ribs (a glass in which the stalk is inserted). They do not allow the blade to bend when working in difficult conditions.
- Titanium shovel bayonge lightweight. Through the use of this material, the product weight becomes much smaller, which reduces the effort of a person in the work of work. In addition, such a shovel is not bent and does not need additional sharpening. Another undoubted advantage of titanium models is that they do not stick to whom wet land, which makes it easier to work with high humidity. However, the price of the shovels of the bayonet from this material is quite high, which is an obstacle for many farms in its purchase. Titanium shovels are suitable for any work.
- Stainless steel shovel. With a large number of advantages, such a shovel is much cheaper than titanium models, however, its weight will be undoubtedly more. The main advantage of such a shovel is that it does not need anti-corrosion processing, which increases its service life. Often from stainless steel make American women, which will be the perfect choice for bulk soils.
- Telescopic bayonetooth shovel. In such models, the adjustable length of the cutlets, which allows people with different growth to most optimally distribute the load so as not to undermine the back. It is very convenient for transportation, especially in the trunk of a small car. However, aluminum or plastic telescopes, namely, they are manufactured by their materials, significantly lose in the strength of solid cuttings from these materials, not to mention wooden. Yes, and such models of shovel are much more expensive. Such shovels will be an excellent choice, for those workers who often move the tool in the car and works on light soils.
Depending on the working conditions, you must select the most optimal option. Of course, for different types of work it is better to have various pycle shovels, but here you need to look at the possibility of their acquisition.
Optimal size for bayonet shovel
Although, many workers believe that the size of the working part and the shovel cuttings do not have a fundamental importance. However, this is not the case. From the right selection of the size of the bayonet shovel depends on the effort that will be applied to the production of work.
Too big working part (blade) shovels will turn the large car of the soil, which has a lot of weight. Having worked for a few minutes with such a shovel, the middle set of a person is guaranteed to get tired. On the contrary, too small blade will require a greater number of operations to switch the same area. Special attention is worth paying a cutlery. It must be optimal length. In the vertical position of the stalk, installed on the shone of shovels should not get to the shoulder of the employee 10 cm. Although, it is a fairly average, and there are people who work well with short cuttings.
Care for shovel
In order for the shovel to serve for a long time and productively, it must be treated carefully. After the remnants of the nagwood soil, it is necessary to consider, and the tool itself is removed into a well-ventilated place. Blank shovels are stored. The exceptions are models that are equipped with a sealed glass. In this case, to remove moisture from it, so that it does not damage the wood of the cutlets and the glass itself, the shovel put the edge up.
The fascinated tool must be processed by the emery circle, or a grinding stone. If knots or chips appeared on the handle, they are cleaned with the help of sandpaper. With careful exploitation and storage, the bayonet shovel even the cheapest last long.
Bayonet shovel do it yourself
The manufacture of shovels, as a rule, are engaged in specialized enterprises with industrial equipment. At home, the bayonet shovels are not profitable. Usually, home "Kulibins" only upgrade the factory option, facilitating their work.
One of these projects offered one amateur gardener. According to him, such modernization will significantly save forces in the production of garden work. As a donor, the usual shovel bayrug, dimensions according to GOST, made in the factory conditions were taken. The essence of modernization was to shift the point of effort to achieve the best efficiency when working.
From the shovel was cut off the toilek with the help of an ordinary grinder. Then the reinforced version of the toilek was made of the pipe, greater length. The fact is that a short fastening is often the cause of a cutting breakdown. Toulinka was welded to the rest of the shovel, but not directly, but is connected by a piece of stripes that forms a step. The stalk was chosen with thickening in the attachment area with the working part. This made it possible to reduce the load on the hands when Copf. Due to the stage, the digger's foot can make an effort strictly in the center, which distributes the load on all the edges evenly, increasing the efficiency. In the proposed version of the product, the cuttings are not on the same axis with the edge, and is shifted by 4 cm forward. Such a lever allows you to significantly reduce the effort when turning the soil. The fork handle that grinds the stalk will make it easily turning the raised soil reservoir.
There are homemade shovels with a half-hour. Their form of something resembles a rocking chair. When working with such a shovel, half-facing acts with nothing, as a point of support, thanks to which a person does not need to make considerable effort to lift the soil. However, such models are suitable only for garden work, they will dig a trench, at least uncomfortable.