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The ultimate root balling spade......
 

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig...
Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
Gertrude Jekyll


The Bamboo Spade

Manufactured exclusively for MidAtlantic Bamboo by
W.W. Manufacturing Company, Inc.
makers of the King of Spades.

Bamboo Spade Price: $235

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Bamboo Spade Blade
Bamboo Spade steel tip
Bamboo Spade locking pin
Same blade as the King of Spades
Hardened steel tip on ram
Locking pin for transporting
Start to dig bamboo
Digging bamboo
Place blade on ground
Raise the ram
Using the bamboo spade to cut rhyzomes
Using the ram to cut bamboo rhyzome
Bring the ram down with a sharp blow
Repeat until you have cut completely around the plant
Prising the root ball with the bamboo spade
Using the Bamboo Spade to prise from several locations
Once cut start to pry the root ball out
Pry from several locations
Bread the bamboo feeder roots
Use the Bamboo Spade to help getting the root ball out
Once the feeder roots pop you can raise the root ball
Use to help get the root ball out of the hole
The bamboo root ball is out
A new bamboo plant
Out of the hole
You have a new division ready to transplant