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shovel or backhoe
a shovel is a first class lever. the force is applied to the handle, the soil at the end is the load and the edge that touchs the top of the soil is the fulcrum.
The shovel groaned as it dug into the tough earth, exhausted from the weight of the heavy soil it had been lifting all day.
Bedrock is under the soil. When you're digging down with a shovel, it's the deepest you can go. Once you hit the bedrock, you can't dig (with a shovel) any further.
You need a shovel and possibly a pick is the soil is hard
A trowel. Its name comes from its resemblance to a spoon. A trowel in general is a small, single-hand implement for digging, scooping, spreading, or otherwise manipulating dirt or other bulk materials (such as mortar).
It depends on where it is, how it is zoned, what kind of soil, and a great many other factors.
it can pick up heavy things and soil
Yes, "shovel" is a noun. It is a tool with a long handle and a broad scoop used for digging and moving material like soil, snow, or coal.
the equipment needed is soil, a shovel, and a warm place to plant it:]
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To cover 6 acres with two feet of soil requires 3227 cubic yards of soil. This would require about 1100 3 yard dump truck trips.