Spade with steel handle

It takes a lot of strength to work on very hard and stony ground. And gardeners are entitled to expect that the spade will make optimum use of their muscles.

This spade in the form of the "English garden spade" is a particularly strong piece: It is made entirely of solid steel - including the handle. This means that the spade can permanently withstand the highest loads. And since there is no transition from wooden handle to socket, you can even exert great leverage on the steel spade without it threatening to bend or break. The ash wood knob on the steel handle makes work even easier: This design is easy to grasp and allows you to exert particularly powerful pressure on the spade from above - it is no coincidence that such a "knob handle" is also highly valued in road construction. To protect the soles of your shoes with so much optimal power transmission, the sharpened blade of this steel spade has forged-on treads.

With forging, the Krumpholz family knows its stuff. Based in the Franconian Forest, the ancestors acquired the first hammer mill of their own - the Guttenberg Hammer - in 1799 and produced tools and other everyday items from forged iron. Today, the company's fortunes are in the hands of the eighth generation. The garden tools that leave the production site, which is still in its old location but has long since been modernized and enlarged, are tools of the first order: shaped under the weight of the forge hammer to suit their area of use, compacted and reinforced where necessary, provided with sharpened edges or blades and fitted with high-quality handles made of ash wood. Free-form forging, as practiced at Krumpholz, requires special skill and a sense of proportion. The steel used, a Swedish steel with chrome-molybdenum content, is tough, strong and easy to clean.