Digging Bar

A digging bar is a long, straight metal bar used as a post-hole digger, to break up or loosen hard or compacted material such as soil, rock, concrete, or ice, and as a lever to move objects. It goes by several regional names, including crowbar in Australia and New Zealand and slate bar, shale bar, spud bar, pinch point bar, San Angelo bar, or pry bar in parts of North America. Typical uses include breaking up clay, concrete, and frozen ground, moving or breaking tree roots, digging fence post holes, working in tight spaces where a pickaxe will not fit, and testing the thickness of ice before fishing on it. Each end of a digging bar is usually shaped differently, so the single tool provides two distinct working functions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/