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To: Chuckster

The picture is incorrect the shovel is the square one. A spade is the leaved one. Or so my dad, grandad, grandma, uncles and aunts continually corrected me...


1,492 posted on 03/03/2019 12:21:16 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: reed13k

that’s how I was raised the spade had the curved bottom to spade the ground and the flat bottom was called the cow sh!t shovel to scrape up the manure when milking


1,496 posted on 03/03/2019 12:25:05 PM PST by conservativesister
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To: reed13k
The picture is incorrect the shovel is the square one. A spade is the leaved one. Or so my dad, grandad, grandma, uncles and aunts continually corrected me...

Yeah. I know. That's my point. I drives me nuts. If you Google it you will be told the opposite


1,697 posted on 03/03/2019 4:48:00 PM PST by Chuckster (Nevermind)
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