Light and strong, no spark shovel. I bought it with intent to drill holes, to convert it to a beach sand sifter, for metal detecting, but so far have used it for various normal uses, including even snow shoveling, for which it work well.

I like it a lot - have bought four, for work and home. Solid, one piece means it won't fall apart. Doesn't catch on concrete when shoveling snow like metal-edged shovels do (whose edges get bent). Very affordable compared to the competition. However, watch the price - it fluctuates wildly on Amazon.

This is an awesome shovel! It is one-piece construction, so no worries about the handle coming loose or falling off. It is beautifully designed, light in weight, smooth, with a deep but rugged scoop. It's almost a work of art! I have used it thus far for shoveling snow, but there are certainly many potential uses around the yard and farm. I'm very pleased.

Made into a sand scoop for beach metal detecting, saw a You Tube movie on how to make the scoop from the plastic shovel.

I got this earlier this winter, and so far it is great. It has a nice balance between weight and stiffness/strength. The size is slightly smaller than a typical wood-handled grain scoop, but still big enough to make a great snow shovel, which is how I have used it so far. (The snow slides off readily.) I think it will also be useful, though, in the spring for shovelling bedding out of the barn, because the plastic is thick and stiff enough to scrape hard, and the edge is strong and sharp. The bottom of the blade is flat, so stuff doesn't get jammed in there as it can with the usual scoop.The handle is large enough that the shovel is easy to use with mittens. If it has a drawback - and this is a minor quibble indeed - the plastic handle is a bit slippery with wool gloves or mittens, more slippery than the wood handles I am used to. I use it anyway with wool mittens, though, so it's not really much of a problem. I like this tool a lot, and I believe it will hold up well (I'm hard on stuff), better than recent iterations of the plastic grain scoops I used to buy, which have gotten chintzier and chintzier - and more expensive - as the years have gone by. Especially for the very reasonable price, this shovel is a real buy. It's made in the U.S.A. as well, I believe, which is nice. And it's even a pretty nice-lookin' color!