Both good and bad

After the eulogies that I've read about this spade, I had expected more significant. Needs to be the spade justice differentiate exactly one but.
If you have a many years cultivated garden soil, which is quite loose, this spade is pretty useless. Of Ergonomic no trace an impossible operation by the angled blade position. Here a permanent awkward twist of the wrists is announced. For this case, the good old straight spade, I have inherited from my father, much more comfortable. Stabbing, ground lift, turn soil, and over again. Furthermore, the Fiskars Spade's way too hard for such a floor.
But when I then a few days later dug my clover / alfalfa-grass, I have learned the spade but appreciate. For this firm, heavy ground with the taproots of alfalfa and tree roots this device is a marvel. Stand, albeit some distance from the body, Zutreten the sheet to drive into the soil (roots and stones are not a problem), pull handle towards the body, here the bent sheet is characterized as a lever, turn around and again the whole of the front , For the wrists, although again not ideal, but the stability of the spade and the lightness are digging up the ground to me more important here and that despite the relatively high weight compared to, mentioned in other reviews, hardware store patrons.