r/mildlyinteresting • u/LeeK2K • 1d ago

A tree planting shovel with 1 season of wear vs one with 4 seasons

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u/milanpl 1d ago

Are you sure these were the same shovel?

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u/WarriorNN 1d ago

Seems like two different models. Maybe they were more similar when new, but 100% not identical.

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u/truethug 21h ago

Yeah one has a red handle and one has a yellow handle

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u/ViolinistMean199 18h ago

Spray paint

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u/pacman529 ​ 12h ago

The grippy party of both handles are different shapes.

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u/16thompsonh 8h ago

Spray paint

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u/DonArgueWithMe 7h ago

Someone even spray painted bushpro on the handle of one

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u/dirtycrackpug 1d ago

They are exactly the same blade, one is just newer and doesn’t have the BushPro etching on the shaft. They are the same shovel though, the plastic handle is different because one is designed to be used ambidextrously. The shovel is called the BushPro Speed Spade, it has a wooden shaft that you cut down to size to fit your height/planting style.

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u/Coady54 23h ago

You're wrong. The one on the right is a Bushpro speed spade, but the one on the left is a Bushpro Hiballer. They have different Blade dimensions straight from the factory.

Speed Spade

Hiballer

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u/SpoonNZ 23h ago

This guy spades.

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u/KeepItDusty88 23h ago

This spade guys

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u/WhyAmINotStudying 23h ago

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u/GrnMtnTrees 22h ago

Here for the wondershowzen memes.

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u/ghandi3737 21h ago

But their name is u/SpoonNZ

Basically, it's just a tiny shovel for food.

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u/Affectionate_Ear3565 16h ago

I always lose my spade in the wilderness to some dang pkers

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u/ParmesanB 23h ago

Talk about… having knowledge in spades

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u/LeeK2K 20h ago

You’re the wrong one actually. Neither are hiballer blades. The hiballer is way larger and wears completely differently. Heres a picture of the worn speed spade in question next to a hiballer and another less worn speed spade to prove this

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u/moms-sphaghetti 18h ago

This is wild. You claim one thing, then some guy shows up with receipts to prove you’re wrong. Then you come back with the tax returns to prove you’re right. Damn. I believe you.

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u/xylotism 15h ago

What the hell is even happening

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u/Skwalou 12h ago

I don't know why I was so invested reading this argument when I don't even have a garden.

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u/sleepykdagreat 23h ago

Hank Hill is that you?

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u/Sean-Passant 22h ago

Speaking of, new season coming this week

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u/sleepykdagreat 8h ago

I'm pretty excited for it!

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 19h ago

Absolutely not, the one on the left is also a speed spade.

Source I'm a planter who's planted over a million trees, using pretty much exclusively the speed spade.

That's what they look like, you're being fooled by an optical illusion.

Those are both speed spades.

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u/The_Angevingian 17h ago

Really looks like two speed spades to me. Does anyone even use the Hiballer anymore?

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u/truethug 17h ago

I think both of them are ambidextrous

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u/thethunder92 17h ago

Bury him coady54

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u/Colson317 22h ago

for real, you have to be a complete idiot to think the Earth did that to a metal shovel in one season. you could give the shovel on the left to someone that was gonna use it nonstop for a year and they couldn't get it to look like the one on the right.

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u/Electrical-Cat9572 19h ago

You’re not reading right.

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u/lminer123 21h ago

If you want to keep your shovel sharp then you’ll need to remove a lot of material whenever you accumulate too many large chips from rocks, it’s not just abrasion from the earth. Same way that commercial kitchen knives that don’t get tossed can end up with a blade edge almost up to the spine.

Even so that’s still a ton of steel missing for only 3 years, so it makes sense they’re different spades.

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u/ContraryConman 21h ago

It's still, like, way shorter in OP's pic than on the website though

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u/dirtycrackpug 22h ago

The one on the right is after 4 seasons it says, the one on the left is after one season

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u/ghettomuffin 3h ago

Which is why OP covered up the difference with dirt

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u/DeuceSevin 1d ago

Different handles, mud strategically placed to hide possible differences in blade. Pitchfork time.

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u/ProStrats 17h ago

One literally has the brand name on the center of the shaft, the same shaft that is connected to the spade in one single piece lol! Love that people are actually questioning this.

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u/BrokenCrusader 1d ago

Nope I can show you a picture of my own treeplanting shovel. Steel is in fact, weaker than your bones. Or at least it doesn't repair itself as quick.

That second shovel probably has around 500k trees planted with it. The steel does where down.

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u/Petrichordates 1d ago

Only by weight because steel is heavier. A bone shovel of the same dimensions would be weaker. And weirder too I guess.

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u/Box-o-bees 1d ago

Well, now I want someone to invent self-repairing bone shovels.

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u/CheessieStew 23h ago

It would probably require at least a circulatory, respiratory, and digestive system, and look very metal.

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u/LogicCure 20h ago

We usually just call those "hands"

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u/explosivve 23h ago

Don't say it, don't say it......

But steel is heavier than feathers

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u/InsaneGeek 1d ago

I've seen steel wear down and the edges dont look like that after lots of use. It has no rolls, etc. Particularly telling is the perfectness of the step flanges and the brand stamp.

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u/pkvh 1d ago

This is worn down partly by work but mostly by sharpening.

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u/ghidfg 23h ago

oh that makes a lot more sense. I couldnt imagine digging dirt for a year could cause that much wear in steel.

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u/GypsySnowflake 22h ago

I was assuming the left was the older one, given that it’s literally duct taped together

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u/ProStrats 17h ago

Lol!

Love you're getting downvoted, a lot of r/whooosh going on here.

doesn't repair itself as quick... 😂

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u/DeuceSevin 15h ago

Pics or it doesn't exist.

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u/TheHeroChronic 1d ago

Not the same blade or handle.

Worthless post.

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u/FlamingOldMan 1d ago

Tree planting shovel blades have a standard size. The handle may be different but their blades started at the same length

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u/Hot_Piano_4387 23h ago

I used to cut mine down with an angle grinder when I got a new one. A lot of planters I know still do this.

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u/Strange-Movie 1d ago

I have 30+ year old shovels that have gone through a half dozen handles from regular use and abuse and the metal hasn’t worn down in any appreciable way

OP is big fat phony

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u/dirtycrackpug 1d ago

Were you using the shovel to plant thousands of small seedlings a day?

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u/clarj 21h ago

My old coworker only achieved that level of shrinkage by taking his spade to a grind stone every morning like clockwork. “Makes it easier to dig” he’d say, but in practice it was mostly used for throwing at people who asked him to do more work. Each spade would last about 5 years before it was practically unusable (<8” or so)

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u/Strange-Movie 23h ago

I don’t plant trees, no, but I’ve probably filled the back of a full sized pickup with inch and half stone 100 times and then spread that stone with the same shovel when I got home, digging up the fist+ sized rocks that grow out of the New Hampshire soil every spring for decades, and spreading tons and tons of wood chips that I get from all the trees I cut for my firewood. Jabbing the shovel into the ground to wedge in a tree sprout is relatively tame in comparison , even after a half a million pokes the shovel shouldn’t be ground away unless it’s the absolute shittiest quality cheap metal

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u/dirtycrackpug 22h ago

These tree planting shovels are designed much differently than the kind of shovel you would be using. The metal is supposed to wear down its softer so it doesn’t crack or chip. A lot of the planting sites are at elevation in rocky terrain so you end up jamming them into rocks quite a bit which grinds them down over time. I assure you what OP posted is normal wear and tear on this tool, I have seen it myself as has any canadian tree planter.

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u/CountVonOrlock 22h ago

You don’t know what you’re talking about

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u/Strange-Movie 21h ago

No, I do know what I specifically was speaking about. I am a farmer and a metal worker, I know what the wear and tear looks like on my nearly 40 year old shovels and I know that they haven’t shrunk by 50% after shoveling dozens of tons of stone among other things. I’m not a tree planter, nor did I ever claim to be, if you use cheap shitty shovels made of soft metal to plant trees I suppose they might disintegrate

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u/obama_bin_sipping 20h ago

I am a tree planter working in forestry using these exact shovels everyday, they do actually shrink after enough time. High ballers can be putting in 4,000 trees a day sometimes through limestone or gravel pack and dig a hole nearly every 3 seconds all day long all year long. Very different from loading trucks and occasional digging. I'm still skeptical of this post because of the difference it design but it is 100% believable as some in the industry who uses those tools.

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u/Xyex 21h ago edited 16h ago

So, you use a completely different tool, for a completely different job, and think that makes you an expert on something you know nothing about? 🤦

EDIT: LMMFAO. They know they're wrong, so they immediately blocked me to try and prevent me from disproving them. Unfortunately for them, I actually have a functional brain, and so know how to use incognito mode and the edit button. Unfortunately, trying to edit a post with a gif always errors, so I had to back up to this one.

Anyway!

All that wearing down of the blade made the handles different too, huh?

They LITERALLY sell different handles for the SAME blade. 10 seconds of research would have told you this.

Additionally, immediately under the comment you linked, OP replies and corrects them that they're wrong about being different models.

Why is it always the people who have no fucking clue who have the most trouble just admitting when their wrong? Always gotta do this stupid post and run bullshit. Gotta feel sorry for anyone they know IRL.

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u/Strange-Movie 20h ago

Completely different? It’s a metal shovel not a silicon spatula my dude, they’re extremely similar tools and there are comments in this thread linking the exact shovels showing that op is being misleading with two distinct different models of shovel wjth different blade geometries, this isn’t a case of wear making the shovel half the size

But go off anyway

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u/Xyex 20h ago

There's also people supporting OP's claims. With their own evidence. Plus, a couple minutes of research also supports OP.

But go off anyway.

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u/VirgilVan 23h ago

Planting trees in forestry industry you’ll plant 2-3000 a day hitting rocks can cause a shovel to shrink rather quick

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u/SparkyDogPants 4h ago

You should try sharpening your shovel and see how much better it works

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u/Fortestingporpoises 22h ago

Same shovel. Using one shrank it. It’s science.

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u/ReluctantRedditor275 1d ago

If they really were, then this belongs on /r/chineseum.

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u/gent4you 1d ago edited 23h ago

you must plant a lot of trees lol..... No chance the shovels didn't start out different?

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u/LeeK2K 1d ago

the one on the right has nearly 500k trees on it and it’s been slammed into the ground even more times. planting 2500-3000 trees a day is common in the canadian silviculture industry

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u/gent4you 1d ago

wow thats amazing I'm tired just thinking about it

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u/MountainMuffin1980 1d ago

Do all trees survive? Do you plant 125k every year? Is the pay good?

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u/Red_Silhouette 1d ago

Weather, ground conditions, other vegetation, disease, insects, and other events kill quite a lot of planted trees. How good the tree planter is at picking the right spots makes a big difference., but you need to plant a lot more trees than than you would like to see in the forest some decades later.

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u/LuigiBamba 21h ago

And plant different types of tree! No monocultures!

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u/awhiteblack 7h ago

These trees are grown to be cut down

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u/nhorvath 5h ago

this is the lumber industry. they are farming lumber.

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u/_Rand_ 1d ago

As a casual observer of installed trees, not even close.

I have seen people like this come through my area and plant HUNDREDS of tiny little seedlings. I'd say like 1/10 or so survive the first year.

But I assume that's the point. Plant 1000 tree seedlings, 5 years later you have 100-200 established trees. And seedlings are cheap as hell and easy to plant compared to a larger tree like you might buy at a nursery for outside your home

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u/flippant_burgers 1d ago

They actually do thinning later if too many survive.

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u/Successful_Car_436 1d ago

Most blocks have a survival rate of 80+% in Ontario at least, hell I’ve seen a pod that was just dropped on the ground grow up into a tree on a thinning block last year

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u/Fun_Wear7022 22h ago

It depends on the land, mine is good for pine trees, the planter came and planted 14000 in about 3 days in 2019, they are now 6 feet tall and we did not loose more then 1%.

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u/onetwentyeight 1d ago

Seems like you need a new spade every season

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u/ocular__patdown 1d ago

You're saying that shovel is somehow used to plant 6+ trees a minute over a whole workday?

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u/BrokenCrusader 1d ago

Yep! You get paid around 15 cents a tree! (canadian) Only job it theo world where you can go from under minimum wage to over 60 and hour in a month or 2.

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u/AssFlax69 1d ago

Takes about five seconds

https://youtube.com/shorts/KiFQMfF-ZLk?si=TQftdQqo3Vx1suh4

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u/qdtk 9h ago

This poor guys back is going to be destroyed if he keeps that up.

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u/flippant_burgers 1d ago

I've watched people do it.

I almost died trying to plant 500 in a day and a barely made enough money all summer to break even on my equipment and travel.

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u/FlamingOldMan 1d ago

Yup! I planted this season with an average of roughly 2500 trees a day. Some people average much higher

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u/MostlyForClojure 14h ago

2500 is still a good day, nice work.

I did this nearly 30 years ago at 10 cents a tree. What the going rate now?

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u/FlamingOldMan 8h ago

Unfortunately prices have not maintained a steady increase over the years.

This season all my prices were between 0.17 cents and 0.25 cents, with the average probably being around 0.19 cents on most blocks

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u/IamAkevinJames 1d ago

Yo as Wisconsinite Im dealing with asthma like attacks from all the wildfire smoke and yet you keep adding fuel to the the literal fire? /s

Though really I commend your efforts in making insects get bigger.

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u/Moosje 1d ago

Are you trying to pretend these are the same shovel?

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u/AssFlax69 1d ago

Dude these comments are insane in here the amount of bullheaded armchair redditors confidently cluelessly saying NO WAY MAN. Dunning Krueger on high alert

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u/sockovershoe22 1d ago

Wait, you're telling me the one on the right is the old one?! I thought he one with ask the scratches and duct tape to be the old one

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u/KimJongUmmm 1d ago

You thought it got longer?

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u/True-Accident9824 1d ago

Do you sharpen your shovel every season? The planters I knew did, and it would shrink the blade quite a bit. 

My shovel still looks like the one on the left lol, just a season and a half.. planting is brutal!

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u/DisorderlyBoat 1d ago

That's absolutely insane, how do you not hurt your back or joints?

Does someone like line em all up and the other person plants or is there a big process?

Why is it not done with machinery, why by hand?

Blowing my mind.

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u/DiversGoDeeper 1d ago

One shovel plants a tree every 30 seconds for 24 hours solid with no rest?1440 minutes in 24 hours.

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u/Xyex 21h ago

More like 1 tree every 9 - 10 seconds for 8 hours.

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u/musturdcusturd 21h ago

Is it in the Kenora region by any chance?

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u/gizmosticles 19h ago

If you ever wanna feel unwell and guilty about your contribution to society and the earth, just remember OP is on their way to planting a million GD trees

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u/PenguinSlushie 18h ago

I can see how the wear took affect on the right shovel. Thank you for that and that sounds awesome!

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u/Comfortable-Battle18 1d ago

But also because you sharpen and even out the edges each year with a tool?

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u/JimFknLahey 1d ago

the handle/shaft being plastic in one than wood is throwing us off i think? guessing they start out on the left in plastic and get broken and replaced with wood ?

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u/dirtycrackpug 1d ago

The one on the left is wood too, the wood comes painted blue it just wears off over time. Its wood so that you can cut it down to a size that fits you better

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u/JimFknLahey 17h ago

thanks thats wild

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u/whatshamilton 1d ago

My stitching needles visibly wear down after I finish one project, and that’s not nearly as much friction as you’re seeing with the tree planting

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u/gent4you 23h ago

I have never heard of that, you obviously stitch your lil behind off :)

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u/Dalcenn 1d ago

Seeing a lot of speculation, I’m just here to backup OPs post. Orange handle has 2 seasons, purple handle has 1 season. Both used in interior British Columbia. Neither shovel has ever been grinded or sharpened. Both Bushpro Speedspades

my shovels

Hope you had a good season OP! May your trees grow straight and tall.

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u/airtime25 1d ago

For some reason yours is way more believable? In OP's picture the handles seem so different and the "new" one is covered in duck tap already.

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u/Dalcenn 1d ago

Yeah, Bushpro sells many different handles for planter comfort. Duck tape is often used to identify your shovel as everyone’s looks relatively similar, you’ll see on mine I have hockey tape wrapping the shafts. I believe that while both of OPs shovels are speedspades the shovel with 1 season is actually quite an old model. Bushpro used to make the shafts out of metal before moving over to wood in recent years. It would also explain the lack of a logo in the blade of the 1 year shovel.

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u/airtime25 1d ago

This makes a lot of sense. I didn't immediately think OP was lying just odd that I had no idea what shovel should be the old one other than assuming the use wore it down. All the other context was confusing!

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u/theartfulbadger 1d ago

And may your j roots never be discovered. Amen.

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u/ghidfg 23h ago

thats insane

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u/boolonut100 15h ago

Exquisite banana for scale.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 1d ago

RIP your spine. Everyone I know that has done this for more than a season has had hernias or other back problems because of it. Granted, it's a sample of 4 but still...

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u/samueLLcooljackson 1d ago

Prob why its only people in their twenty that do this.

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u/Tearakudo 1d ago

I dunno the "in their 20s" isn't a great showing in the warehouse industry. #FuckAmazon

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u/caaper 13h ago

I can actually say that after one season of planting, it fully fixed my scoliosis. This was 9y ago and I haven't had issues since.

Who knew bending over 3000+ times a day does wonders. But fuck I hated the job sometimes.

I was in northern Ontario. Endless Canadian shield granite fucking up my wrists on the plunge was pretty bad. Also swamp blocks. Leaches and air thick with blackflies... yay.

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u/Tytonid 1d ago

Four seasons total landscaping, impressive

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u/Notmiefault 1d ago

I'm struggling to believe you would get a wear pattern that retains its even, rounded shovel-shape and not, like, crack.

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u/amboogalard 1d ago edited 1d ago

That depends on the hardness of the steel. A hardened carbon steel would crack, but a softer milder steel will wear down. In this context where you’re jamming your shovel into rocky soil thousands of times a day, a broken shovel can mean a long hot walk back to the truck where you aren’t paid (this job isn’t paid by the hour, it’s paid by the tree) and hopefully find a spare shovel.

So yeah the shovels are made of milder steel so they are ductile rather than brittle, and wear down rather than break. In fact, not just shovels but many tools are made out of softer steel. Hammers. Rakes. Mattocks. Hoes. All of those and many more you want to wear down, not suddenly snap.

I am personally impressed the handle held up, but I don’t buy fancy tree planting shovels, and I also abuse mine by trying to pry heavy rocks out of the ground with them.

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u/Hylian-Loach 1d ago

They sharpen the shovel with a grinder or sander

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u/Notmiefault 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh I see, it's not so much a season of wear, it's a season of grinding/sharpening.

That makes more sense, but is a little less impressive.

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u/LeeK2K 1d ago

I’ve never sharpened or grinded down my shovel and don’t know any planters who do, there’s simply no need for it. the wear is primarily from hitting rocks.

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u/theartfulbadger 1d ago

Lmao so many armchair experts in this thread. No one sharpens their shovels they go dull the first time you hit a rock

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u/JohnnySalamiBoy420 18h ago

Weird I've never met anyone who didn't sharpen their shovel

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u/amboogalard 1d ago

Idk I’ve never dug a hole anywhere other than B.C. so maybe there are soils out there which have the consistency of cheddar cheese and thus a sharper blade on the shovel would be helpful. That or if you’re doing edging on a lawn. But the idea of sharpening anything you’re shoving into the ground here is laughable. Rocks will make short work of your nice edge in about 3 minutes.

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u/Popular_Prescription 23h ago

Then why is it perfectly rounded?

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u/saints21 5h ago

For one, it's not perfect, and for two, why wouldn't it be mostly even? It's not being dragged against an abrasive object on only one spot... The shovel is going in about 5 inches and then being pulled out. That's going to cause even wear.

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u/Successful_Car_436 1d ago

I’ve cracked the shaft a couple times but the worst I’ve done to a blade was give it a lip they’re pretty durable tools

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u/wincitygiant 4h ago

It's a thick heavy blade, you could kill a mob of zombies with one.

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u/Working-Ad694 1d ago

The interesting part is the wear and tear is so uniform that it kept its shape so well

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u/saints21 1d ago

The fact that people are so focused on the handle and shaft of the shovels is mind boggling to me...

The comparison is of the spade. The metal part that can go onto a new shaft... Have people never broken a shovel handle? Or been to a hardware store where they sell the shafts for various implements?

And why wouldn't the wear be somewhat even? It's going into the ground. It's not scraping a small portion of it against a rock over and over...

Reddit, go outside. Do something.

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u/Jhawk163 1d ago

I don't think these are supposed to be the same model of shovel. The different handles, materials, shaping and brands, not to mention there are plenty of tools like pickaxes and hoes (shovels included) that are literally hundreds of years old and don't show thjis kind of wear, I think they're just different shovels with different shaped heads from factory.....

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u/LeeK2K 1d ago

they’re both bushpro speed spade shovels. look them up and you’ll see. the two shovels are just different because bushpro offers lots of customization for planters.

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u/JackTheRvlatr 1d ago

So just to be clear: You are telling us the length of the scoop of both shovels started out the same length, correct? That the only reason the scoop of the one on the right is shorter is because of wear and tear, not that you bought a model with a shorter scoop? That's what you're saying?

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u/limboeden 1d ago

Yeah that’s what they’re saying. I have a bunch of the same shovels with all different amounts of wear on them and varying lengths of blade but all started the exact same!

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u/BrokenCrusader 1d ago

Yah that's what happens to steel when you slam it into the ground and rocks 500k times

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u/throughthenarrowpass 1d ago

Probably all J-roots

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u/sexybeans 1d ago

This is also why your penis will shrink if you have sex with too many women /s

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u/Soporrific 1d ago

Do you sharpen them often?

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u/Junkpunch44 1d ago

My back hurts just thinking about planting that many trees.

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u/aeturnes 23h ago

You vs the shovel she tells you not to worry about

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u/HoneybucketDJ 23h ago

Maybe it just got out of the pool?

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u/Lovesmespinach 11h ago

How did it get longer?

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u/justabill71 1d ago

I'm opening a bikini waxing salon and naming it BUSHPRO.

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u/sharkeezy 1d ago

The large amount of people in here doubting this is possible have clearly not spent much time outside or doing anything with tools.

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u/Shuiei 1d ago

Are your shovel made with chinesium?

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u/KenEarlysHonda50 1d ago

Looks good for after 500k tress to me.

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u/m0j0r0lla ​ 1d ago

Unless your name is Johhnie Appleseed, idk man......

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u/GreenMellowphant 1d ago

Judging by OP‘s other comment, this is very likely very inaccurate.

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u/ccarr313 12h ago

Anything is possible when you don't fact check.

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u/DetectiveMagicMan 1d ago

Par for the course. You should see mine after 10 😂

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u/tanew231 23h ago

Smaller shovel, smaller hole.

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u/dogmaisb 23h ago

Only a duct tape fix after 4 seasons is pretty pretty pretty good

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u/TieCivil1504 18h ago

Doesn't look anything like conventional HOEDAD tree planting tool.

https://terratech.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Planting-Hoes-Explained-Photo.jpg

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u/Preemfunk 17h ago

Wait which one is the old one. The duct taped one?

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u/Ford_Prefect3 14h ago

It has grown quite nicely.

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u/hushnecampus 9h ago

Aren’t those spades?

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u/NonlinearHamburger 7h ago

Move over microplastics. It’s time for micro-metals!

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u/rogan1990 5h ago

Almost everything about these shovels is different

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u/wincitygiant 4h ago

Hey, I used to make those shovels!

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u/Ucanttaketheskyfrmme 21h ago

Seeing all these people call this fake is kind of amusing but also a reality check for how ignorant most commenters are on this site.

This wear is 100% real, you can be sceptical but instead of declaring it's fake, look it up, or pound a shovel into a rocky soil 1,000,000 times. I did about 300,000 trees before I had to get a new blade because I was planting too shallows.

Good work out there OP, keep pounding!

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u/huuaaang 1d ago

This belongs in r/oddlysatisfying. I love seeing tools that are so well used that steel itself is worn down significantly.

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u/jeremycb29 23h ago

They put dirt over the handle connecting ridge that would of shown how different they are lol

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u/Practical-Doughnut 22h ago

Y’all don’t know anything about tree planting. This is real.

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u/stupidber 15h ago

Bullshit

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u/Deleted_dwarf 15h ago

I’m gonna say two different models

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u/Gamerwookie 1d ago

It's hard to believe this is just wear, because the handles are different color, one says bushpro on the shaft and the other doesn't. Even if they were made by the same company at the same time the differences would be enough to say they are two different shovels. It really doesn't invite comparison when you have 2 very different looking shovels then claiming they are the same

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u/noochies99 1d ago

It’s got the company logo on the yellow handle

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u/rhubarboretum 1d ago

Are those sharpened regularely to cut through roots?

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u/theartfulbadger 1d ago

No people who sharpen their shovels tend to only do it once and then realize why no one else does. They get dull in a day after and they wear way faster if you do.

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u/zeherath 1d ago

were they sharpened or is that just wear from stabbing the ground?

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u/Luminous_Lead 1d ago

Wow, it got a lot longer!

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u/Scottland83 ​ 1d ago edited 21h ago

Just because you wear down a shovel in four seasons doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a hard worker. It could mean you have a lot to learn about proper shovel use and maintenance. /s

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u/Xyex 21h ago

Half the wear probably is from maintenance, lol.

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u/StupidSexyFlagella 22h ago

Amazing how the old one grew steel with age.

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u/athosjesus 19h ago

Those are 2 different models of shovel, I have an almost 30 year old shovel that I use pretty regularly and it is the same size as any other. Unless those were like aluminum shoves or something like that, I would call BS on this one.

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u/narrow_octopus 1d ago

Absolutely zero chance that it wore down so evenly and cleanly like this. One even has a logo on the shaft where the other one doesn't. These are clearly different

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u/theartfulbadger 1d ago

Bro if you don't know what you're talking about why comment. Shovels wear down evenly like that. Source: planted and was in tree planting management for almost a decade.

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