Yep, difference is the width, the flat bottom, and very little of a bow between the sides is a spade, a regular shovel will be shorter, more pointed, and dished more. Although this one is dished pretty significantly. As a child my brothers and I would chop down thistles that would grow as tall as 6' in the pasture grandparents had for cattle or horses.
"What do you call it in English?" ..... That's actually a combination tool. It's both a spade and a crow bar. Most people think of crow bars as 2 feet long nail bars, but a proper crow bar is about 6 feet long. I've heard them called pry bars also, but the tool I watched being made I would refer to as a combination tool. The name that covers most possible uses would be a "drainage spade", so that's probably a good name for it.
That's hard work craftsmanship. If I might offer a suggestion: cool the metal in oil, not water. Water hardens the metal to only 18 thousandths of an inch. Oil will harden the metal completely all the way through, because it is slower than water with the heat transfer.
I like your shop set up, especially your power hammer. Curious if you have looked into the London pattern of anvil and Hardie tools. What I find d most useful with the hardie tooling is that using the Hardie hole, I can make all sorts of different tooling like swages, bending forks (like the 2 prongs driven into the side of your stump), and pretty much any other tool you can possibly imagine, with them all setting in the same place to make my swing comfortable, and the variety of options. Glad to have found your channel and stay safe in these times.
I don't know how it is called in english but here in italy we call this tool a "cartoccia". I see you have some great skills in metalwork but i wanted to advise you to try making axe and hammer handles with wedge fit or slip fit, those handles just pounded in the head will slide off once the wood dries up
@@bharatg124 Yes but that would stop it being used to open out the post hole. With a crowbar end and a point at the other we used to call it a podger. But it didn't have a useful spade/scoop to clear the hole. We had to carry another tool (a post hole digger/grabber) which has a pair of hinged scoops to clear the hole.
He is an expert blacksmith and also seems to know how to use the tool very well for digging. The soil in Cambodia seems very rich. Perhaps he was a farmer before becoming a blacksmith.
We call it many names for certain things, like: Drain Spade, trench bar, tree planter, and it can if you shapen up one end and flatten the other become a heavy wood chisel.
Thomas Hart It’s a more “precise” shovel because it’s easier to take away the right amount of dirt and make the right size of hole. Sharpshooter - a person that aims and fires a gun precisely.
