Sharpening tools

[jasonw77]

I was wondering how everyone sharpens thier used digging tools. Mine shovel is getting beat up from digging and noticed it's not cutting as well. My area is pretty rocky lots of little stones. What is your technique and what tools do you use

 

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[releventchair]

I use a single cut file for touch ups , or on soft steel.
Match previous bevel. Often just one side of a shovel. (The one away from edge of hole being cut. If that makes sense.)

I use a four inch grinder on real bad edges first , but use caution not to overheat them and ruin their temper.

 

[ecmo]

My hand digger which is like what you might use in a flower bed I just take to my bench grinder. When I get a decent edge on the front I may lightly bounce the rear over the wheel once to get rid of burrs.

I do own a short 3 ft. tall shovel that I haul around in my truck with me which I seldom use, but if it did accidentally ever need sharpening I also, as mentioned before, would take a file to it the same as my dad sharpened all his tools excluding a knife.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Same way I sharpen an axe. Single cut mill ******* file.

 

[ecmo]

Same way I sharpen an axe. Single cut mill ******* file.

Lol, yup I know the b******s you're talking about.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

See. We just need a "foil checker" on our detectors to protect us from foil in the way spell checkers prevent us from using the proper English adjective describing a flat file with a coarseness of teeth single-cut between medium and second cut.

 

[releventchair]

See. We just need a "foil checker" on our detectors to protect us from foil in the way spell checkers prevent us from using the proper English adjective describing a flat file with a coarseness of teeth single-cut between medium and second cut.

Yep.
Pretty bad when a files pedigree gets censored!

 

[jasonw77]

Lol, thanks for the info