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

Since oversized items require special handling, we may need to provide a custom freight quote for your order and will contact you with an updated shipping rate.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup - default method
✔ Direct delivery - requires forklift on site
✔ Direct delivery with tailgate lift truck (extra fees apply)
✔ 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
• Because of the forklift requirement, delivery to the nearest depot is the default option and will be the method used unless you contact us to request otherwise.
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box - please provide a physical street address for delivery.

Business Delivery:

• Business delivery is available for commercial customers only
• If you select business delivery and your products are bulky, it is your responsibility to ensure you have appropriate equipment (including forklifts) to unload products from the delivery truck
• If you select business delivery and you are not a business, you risk your product not being delivered and may incur additional fees to retrieve your order
• Business delivery customers must provide a valid business address and contact information
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

Let us know your preference, and we'll arrange the best solution for you!

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse serves as our office and logistics centre rather than a retail showroom. Because we ship from multiple locations and manage high-turnover stock, not all items are available for immediate pickup.

Lead Times:

• In-Stock Items: Usually ready for dispatch the same day.
• Supplier-Dependent Items: Usually take 2–8 weeks to arrive, depending on supplier availability. Products from Adloheat may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order—they are custom made to order in Pakenham, VIC.

While we strive for fast delivery, some timelines are subject to supplier availability and are beyond our control. We appreciate your patience as we source the best quality gear for your project.

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.