Gorilla Tubtrugs One Piece Plastic Shovel - Yellow

Red Gorilla Gorilla Shovel – Yellow

The Gorilla Shovel is moulded in one piece from polypropylene — blade, shaft and D-handle are a single unibody, so there is no join between head and handle to work loose. That joint is the failure point on almost every steel-and-ash shovel that ends up in a skip, and this one simply does not have it.

In yellow it is the version you can find: propped against a wall in a dim barn, lying in long grass, or half under a heap of shavings. At 1.2kg and 100cm long it is genuinely light for a full-height tool, with a 32.5cm blade that takes a proper scoop.

Performance & Benefits

• One-piece moulded polypropylene — blade, shaft and handle are a single unibody with no joint to shear.
• 1.2kg all in, roughly half the weight of a comparable steel-and-ash shovel.
• 100cm long with a 32.5cm blade, so it is a full-height tool rather than a stunted yard scoop.
• Wide D-handle lets you drive from the shoulder rather than the wrist.
• No metal parts anywhere, so it is non-sparking and there is nothing to rust or seize.
• Red Gorilla rate it UV, frost and weather resistant, so it can live outside against a wall.
• Yellow is the easiest colour in the range to find in a dark barn or long grass.

Suitable For

• Mucking out, skipping out and moving bedding, shavings and muck.
• Clearing snow from yards, paths and ramps.
• Shifting loose soil, sand, gravel, compost and grain.
• Sites and stores wanting a non-sparking, metal-free tool 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.

How to Use

• Take the D-handle in your leading hand and the shaft low in the other, and push from the legs.
• Load into the scoop and lift straight; 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, since plastic of any kind is at its most brittle when 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: yellow. Red Gorilla list nine colours.
• This listing previously gave a length of 101cm and a blade width of 31.5cm. Red Gorilla publish 100cm and 32.5cm, and those are the figures 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 with something else first.
• Do not use it to chip ice or dig frozen ground. Cold plastic is brittle plastic, and the edge chips rather than bites.