Gorilla One Piece Shovel – Heavy-Duty Polypropylene Shovel with Ergonomic D-Handle BLUE

Red Gorilla Shovel – Blue

The Gorilla Shovel is moulded in one piece from polypropylene, so there is no join between blade and shaft to work loose — the failure point on almost every steel shovel that ends up in a skip. In blue it is the version most yards buy for general muck and bedding work.

At 1.2kg and 100cm long it is genuinely light for a full-height shovel, which changes how long you can keep going with it. The 32.5cm blade takes a proper scoop, and because there is no metal anywhere in it there is nothing to rust through a winter propped against a damp wall.

Performance & Benefits

• One-piece moulded polypropylene — blade, shaft and handle are a single unibody with no joint to work loose or shear off.
• 1.2kg all in, which is roughly half what a comparable steel-and-ash shovel weighs.
• 100cm long with a 32.5cm blade, so it is a full-height tool rather than a stunted yard scoop.
• Wide D-handle grip that lets you drive from the shoulder rather than the wrist, and take some of the strain off your back.
• No metal parts anywhere, so it is non-sparking and there is nothing to rust, seize or corrode.
• Red Gorilla rate it UV, frost and weather resistant, which is why it can live outside against a wall.

Suitable For

• Mucking out, skipping out and moving bedding, shavings and muck.
• Clearing snow off yards, paths and ramps.
• Shifting loose soil, sand, gravel, compost and grain.
• Sites and stores where a non-sparking, metal-free tool is wanted near fuel or dust.
• Not a digging tool. It will not break or turn hard, stony or frozen ground — a steel spade is the tool for that, and this one is for moving what is already loose.

How to Use

• Take the D-handle in your leading hand and the shaft low in the other, and push from the legs rather than lifting from the back.
• Load into the deep scoop and lift; do not swing a full blade sideways, which twists the shaft.
• Rinse mud, muck and salt off after use and stand it head-down to drain.
• Store it under cover in a hard frost — plastic of any kind is at its most brittle when it is cold.

Specification

• Length 100cm, blade width 32.5cm, weight 1.2kg — Red Gorilla's own published figures.
• One-piece moulded polypropylene with a D-shaped handle. No metal parts; non-sparking.
• UV, frost and weather resistant. Colour: Blue. Red Gorilla list nine colours.
• A length of 101cm and a width of 31.5cm appeared on this listing previously; Red Gorilla's figures are 100cm and 32.5cm and those are used above.

Care & Caution

• The blade is polypropylene, not steel. Levering under a wedged stone, compacted muck or frozen bedding is what breaks plastic shovels — if it will not lift, break it up first with something else.
• Do not use it to chip ice or dig frozen ground. Cold plastic is brittle plastic, and the edge will chip rather than bite.