Stainless Steel Border Spade - 960mm Length (140mm x 240mm Blade) - Premium FSC Ashwood Spade for Raised Beds & Borders

Stainless Steel Border Spade - 960mm Length (140mm x 240mm Blade) - Premium FSC Ashwood Spade for Raised Beds & Borders

Using a full-sized spade in crowded borders or raised beds can damage plants and roots, while kneeling with a small trowel strains your back. The Stainless Steel Border Spade is the perfect compromise, engineered with a long 960mm handle and a smaller, narrow blade. This design provides the superior leverage and standing comfort of a long tool with the precision of a hand tool, ensuring you can dig, plant, and cultivate accurately in deep or tight spaces.

Optimised for continuous commercial and domestic landscaping tasks, this spade features an ergonomically balanced shaft that actively dampens shock transfers when hitting subterranean obstacles. The seamless transition from the socket to the premium grain structure reduces mechanical weak points under heavy pivoting loads. By utilising a low-friction blade profile, operators can glide through heavy clays and dense root networks while minimising raw physical exertion across an entire working shift.

Best For: Home gardeners, professional landscapers, and estate groundskeepers needing a high-quality, durable spade with an extended handle for comfortably digging, planting, and working in raised garden beds, narrow borders, and densely planted perennial areas.

Key Features:

• Extended 960mm Length: Provides crucial leverage and reach, allowing you to dig and cultivate while standing, minimising back strain and ensuring you can work the middle of wide borders or raised beds comfortably.
• Precision Narrow Blade (140mm x 240mm): The small, straight-edged blade is ideal for detailed work, digging neat planting holes, lifting plants, and edging without disturbing surrounding soil or delicate root systems.
• Premium Stainless Steel Blade: Features polished, heat-treated stainless steel for superior hardness and rust resistance. The smooth blade penetrates soil effortlessly and guarantees easy cleaning, ensuring a lifetime of performance.
• FSC Certified Ashwood Handle: Crafted from sturdy FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Ashwood hardwood, providing exceptional structural strength, a comfortable grip, and a beautiful natural aesthetic that resists weathering.
• Guaranteed Durability (5-Year Warranty): Built to a demanding 50kg strength rating, this tool is designed for lifelong use, giving you confidence and protecting your investment with a comprehensive 5-year warranty.

Product Technical Specifications Matrix:

Primary Cultivation & Field Applications

• Raised Bed Cultivation: Digging planting holes and turning soil in deep raised garden beds, market rows, and intensive vegetable patches.
• Precision Turf Edging: Edging borders and creating clean, razor-sharp lines around patios, lawns, and gravel pathways with absolute precision.
• Perennial Stock Propagation: Safely lifting and dividing dense perennial clumps with minimal user effort and low root zone disturbance.
• Confined Space Landscaping: Working close to established shrubs, dense ground covers, or large trees without damaging primary root systems or irrigation lines.

Pro Tip & Precision Tool Maintenance: The polished stainless steel finish on this border spade is designed to reject soil adhesion automatically, but basic post-work maintenance will double its service life. Always wipe the blade clean of damp dirt, sap, or fertilisers before storage, and ensure the tread steps are free of caked mud.

Periodically rub a light coat of boiled linseed oil into the ashwood handle to seal the timber grain against ambient workshop moisture and prevent drying out under hot sun exposure. If the cutting edge dulls slightly after slicing through rocky subsoils, run a fine metal file smoothly across the factory bevel angle to restore its effortless slicing dynamics.

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.