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Anybody seen one of these before?

godigit1

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This shovel was found in a barn I cleaned out for my girlfriend she inherited after her parents passed. It was with some other custom crevacing tools.
Her grandfather was a mule skinner and blacksmith in the gold rush logging town of Pino Grand and was murdered when his son fooled around with another mans lady. Well the guy came drunk waiving a gun and her grandfather took the bullet. Inside one on the steamer trunks we found his blood soaked matted up coveralls.

I have never seen a clam shell shovel like this before and it may be his handy work!

Has anyone here seen one like this before? Its next to a 8 foot piece of plywood and itself is about 8 foot 9 inches long.

The handle is thick and strong even though it may be over a hundred years old.

Thanks for any Info.
Jim
 
Hey Sweepdog,
Thanks for the lead I did a bunch of searching and Think I found it.
The honey dipper shovel I was able to find had a 90 degree angle head.
Frank at the prospector shop in auburn hit it on the head but I couldn't see it and still don't see how flat head angle was used for post holes but that is what they had.

I found this book on ebay and the telegraph post hole digger is really close to my shovel.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/380574035258?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

I think it was being used as a prospecting shovel by its owner though as it was with some customs crevice spoons.
It works great for small creeks you can drag rocks out with the spoon it has great leverage and super thick handle. And it does not drop soil form the spoon, basically you can slide it in and out of the creek without lifting it and just dump your gravel high and dry to be panned or sluiced.
That's how I have used it you can see I have worn the leading edge clean the one time I took it to Weber Creek.

Thanks again it sent me in the right direction.
Jim
 
I used to have one of those on my truck when I strung temporary power on construction sites. Its called a "digging spoon" and works good on digging near verticle holes.
 
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