I saw this digging tool while in Bass's yard last summer. I tried to foind it
looking in a lot of the box stores. I had no luck. Never gave it a though to look on line for it mostely I did not know the correct name of the tool.
I did finally find it listed as a Dig EZ Pick Mattock and the day I located it they took the 12 dollar shipping charge off of the item and reduced the price around 3 bucks.

In the photos it is resting now in my garage waiting to make and easy job digging those holes for new fruit trees this spring. I should be able to dig and scoop the dirt out of the holes with the same tool. Seems like it's a good solid tool.
Lou

Where do you do bass fishing this time of the year!!

Sorry Lou.
I mis-read. I thought you sai Bas I finally got one.

Lou, looking like a great tool. Watch your back with that thing.
I had a friend help me dig a trench 3 ft deep with this in the middle of the dry summer couple years ago. It is a good tool.

Good one OTTawan. Must be prolong exposure to the cold minus temp in the garage that did it.

It should do a good job in fresh tilled garden soil to dig the trenches to plant young seed potato crop as well. Bass the back is already shot.
I'll find a few more uses as well but none of them will be pertaining to Bass fishing (just to large to make a warbler plug out of it).
I never did any ice fishing. Any of you that have ever caught a small mouth or large mouth bass through the hole you made in the ice? Most of my fishing was deep sea. Either the New Jersey coast or many trips to Glouster, Mass. Caught lots of cod around 50 lbs way back when.
Lou

Lou watch where you store that thing !
I have the bigger grandfather to that one that Dad used oh so many many years back working in construction.
Last time i used it around 1990 waist deep in a hole when nextdoor neighbor jokingly
said "you Italians always did make good ditch diggers".
It just lays around in my shed weighs a ton and pokes one real good when accidentally walked into.  ; )

Can you post the link to where you found that tool?  I'm thinking of getting it for JD and I, as part of tools we need for the new property (which the bank is now reviewing our offer), along with a machete, a pick axe, The Rodenator, an electric augur, moth balls, a chain saw, and that Kania Trap.

House is at the highest part of 1.4 acres on a seriously ROCKY, weedy, brushy descending sunny hill with a lot of huge overgrown trees and brush close to the house.  The need for tools is pretty obvious!  Since both wine grapes and figs love to grow in rocky soil and get their roots in the cool spaces under the rocks, we are pretty happy with the plan.  Just need tools!

Link please!

Suzi

 want one too

machettes sell for around $12.00 here
folks love guns and knives here.

It's a nice tool to have Lou. Like Martin, I have one of the older, large, heavier, versions of what you have there. Mine has more of an ax edge on the back instead of the spike though - good for chopping through roots.

I hope you're ready for a work out. Doesn't take but a few minutes of operating one of these babies to be drenched in sweat. Good for the heart ;-) .

Guys,
The head of this thing weighs in at 5 lbs. I don't plan on digging a footer for a home just for a tree or two and in my small garden when needed. Looks like a good tool to remove sod from an area before digging it up with the tiller. The outfit I bought it from is called Russo power equipment. I bought the one with the fiberglass handle. They offer the wood handle as well. I just checked it out and the free shipping is still advertised.
Here is the site address.

http://www.russopower.com/products/ames-1117300-dig-ez-pick-mattock-with-fiberglass-handle/
Lou

This is a great tool for gardening. I've seen old time veggie gardeners use it almost exclusively for their gardens. Turning the soil, furrows, digging up grass and weeds, yes a great tool.