All shovels—even if we call anything with a handle and scoop that—are not created equal. And in our lives as home improvement contractors, we have a small army of shovels to do our bidding.
When the work gets rocky (which was the case for this landscaping project where we removed part of a driveway along with the material beneath it), a flat-nosed shovel—called a transfer scoop by its maker, Jackson—gains the day. Unlike a regular dirt shovel with a curved and pointed scoop, a transfer scoop enables you to slide the scoop under the work enabling better penetration of the steel into the interlocked mess of rocks, dirt, screening—kind of like yanking a table cloth out from under a tea set, only in reverse.
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