Fiskars XACT Large Digging Spade 1.08m
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Price: £42.95
Brand: Fiskars
Description: Fiskars Xact Digging spade Medium is a revolution in spade design. It features an extra strong, sharp blade and non slip step board for penetrating hard soil like its larger brother but is designed to fit a smaller user. The same benefit of control a. Fiskars XACT Large Digging Spade 1.08m - shop the best deal online on diy-compared.co.uk
Category: Garden Tools
Merchant: Tooled Up
Product ID: 307677
Delivery cost: 6.95
EAN: 6411501314826
RRP: 42.95
Author: Pete
Rating: 5
Review: I took a chance on this spade and I'm pleased I did. I've been using it for the last three days while converting my garden into an edible forest garden. It's involved digging holes for new trees through a range of soils including areas that are dense with existing roots from other trees, stony soil and the very mixed soil on top of a Cornish wall. Having a spade the right size for my height helps, having one with sharpened point helps too. I'm stamping the spade in and then rocking it back and forth and it works a treat. I'm 5'10 and about 11 stone and it's hard to imagine breaking this spade unless I used it as crowbar. In places I'm moving root masses from established bushes like fuscias and the spade is cutting around and under them well. The spade feels sturdy with good welds and a nice finish on the metal surface of the spade. I'm sure the finish will wear of around the edge, but that will be fine and allow it to be resharened at some time in the future. The handle is comforatble to use all day. It was heavier than I expected but not much heavier than an old smaller spade we have. Overall I would happily recommend it and see no reason why it should not last a very long time.
Author: PMP????
Rating: 1
Review: Having owned a number of other "Fiskars" tools, my personal experiences with them have been rather pleasing, hence the reason I decided to spend a little more and purchase this. Whilst using the tool, it did feel like a quality tool to begin with, light digging of a vegetable plot was fine, but the blade continued to clog with soil easily. Ultimately while trying to dig up stubborn weeds for transplanting, the handle decided to snap into two. As another review said, once the handle had snapped the spade shows its true form. What I'm referring to here is the very short steel handle up to about 3" beyond the black plastic which is ridiculous. Surprisingly, Fiskars even boast a 25 year guarantee with this tool, although the fact was I didn't even get two hours out of this tool. In summary, this garden tool is a simple yet overpriced plastic handled spade with no steel, wood or other reinforcement for a foot of its length, which is clearly not acceptable. For these numerous reasons, I would certainly not recommend this product for those that value the time spent in their gardening (everyone obviously!) If you found my review helpful, please click the "Yes" button to state this so I know its been a help to someone. Thank you!
