Have you found my shovel... or tent?

Nobody digs holes with a post hole shovel these days - I gae that up years ago.

Asked one of my lads to dig a hole and gave him my old post hole shovel - he looked at it in disdain for about ten minutes from every angle - he tossed it away and said - "it's screwed dad"..

How do you figure that I say?

Couldn't find a start switch or pull chord anywhere on it! he answers! :rollseyes;.

Heheads off inside - and is on the phone - I ask - so what about the hole?

He says - "keep yer knickers on - I'm on the phone with the wholesaler right now!".

Seems you can only get em in blister packs these days minimum quantity 3 but I only needed one hole.

So we gave up on that idea- and decided to forgoe the hole idea and use a star picket instead so we could just bang it in, they asked if we wanted the points welded on the top end or the bottom end?

It all got just too damned hard so we quit for the day and went fishing.

I suggest you learn from our mistakes and save save yaself a lot of hassel and do likewise!

Cheers & tight lines!

Royce

I found a brand new shovel halfway along the Kidson and about 200metres off the track near some trees, in 2006



Cheers

Royce,
I think I found your shovel. It was on the track into Pallanup beach about 100 kms east of Albany. (those long handled shovels can bounce a long way you know). Did you want it back? It has become my best friend over the last few years and always comes with me on my morning walk into the bush when camping.
Steve

Found the shovel.....in an old mill town, nobody left there of course, didn't have a handle anymore....I guess the white ants got that...it looked so forlorn....so I left it there and I guess it's there still....

And the tent without poles....yeah, I reckon I saw that to...now belongs to some indigenous folk out there somewhere...by the way they were smiling, they were happy with it. Reckon it gone to a good home......Docker River...I think it was.