Krumpholz Ladies Spade - 85cm Ash T-handle, 2.5mm Carbon Steel - Hand-forged Tool for Lightweight, Sturdy Digging

Krumpholz Ladies Spade - 85cm Ash T-Handle - Hand-Forged Tool for Lightweight, Sturdy Digging

Using a full-sized digging spade can be cumbersome and heavy, leading to strain and fatigue during long gardening sessions. The Krumpholz Ladies Spade is the expertly sized solution, engineered by a European family blacksmith with over 220 years of experience. Forged from robust 2.5mm thick carbon steel and fitted with an 85cm Ash Wood T-handle, this spade provides the perfect blend of lightweight maneuvering and sturdy digging power, ensuring a more enjoyable and less fatiguing gardening experience.

Best For The committed home gardener seeking a smaller, lighter, and meticulously forged spade that offers professional strength and superior ergonomics for comfortable planting, digging, and turning soil.

Key Features

• Optimized for Ergonomics: The 85cm T-handle length is perfectly balanced for a smaller frame, providing crucial leverage and control while minimizing the back and shoulder strain associated with handling heavier, full-sized tools.

• Master Hand-Forged Quality: Crafted by Krumpholz, a traditional European blacksmithing company since 1799, this tool is forged from premium steel for maximum toughness, balance, and guaranteed lifelong durability.

• Sturdy 2.5mm Carbon Steel: Features a rigid, shapely blade made from 2.5mm thick carbon steel, offering superior strength and rigidity over thin spades, ensuring it cuts cleanly into and lifts heavy soil easily.

• Efficient Digging Profile: The blade is designed for clean soil penetration, making it ideal for digging planting holes, turning compost, and general cultivation with significantly less effort than a standard, bulky shovel.

• Ergonomic T-Handle: The durable Ash Wood T-handle provides a secure, two-handed grip, essential for applying focused leverage when digging into compacted ground.

Sizes Available (Sold Individually)

This item is sold as a single, premium, hand-forged tool.

Specifications

• Brand: Krumpholz
  

• Material: Forged Carbon Steel Blade (2.5mm thick); Ash Wood T-Handle

• Capacity: Digging, planting, and cultivating in soft to medium soils

• Dimensions: 85cm Handle Length; Blade size (Shapely Ladies Spade profile)

• Other specific data: Sturdy design. Made in Europe.

Ideal For (Uses)

• Digging planting holes for perennials, roses, and shrubs in garden borders and beds.

• Turning over small vegetable patches and incorporating compost or soil amendments.

• Edging small lawns and pathways with greater precision and control than a large spade.

• Lifting and transplanting small-to-medium established plants with clean root separation.

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.