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Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus. There is rust, paint etc but overall condition is about the same.
There is rust, paint etc but overall condition is about the same.
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Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus

Price 19.99 USD excluding sales tax

A traditional short spade often fielded by the great Eastern Powers. Easier to carry than a long spade, still way better for digging than a spoon. Made of wood and steel, like everything should be!

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Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus.
Romanian Short Spade, Sapper Model, Surplus. There is rust, paint etc but overall condition is about the same.

A traditional short spade often fielded by the great Eastern Powers. Easier to carry than a long spade, still way better for digging than a spoon. Made of wood and steel, like everything should be!

This architypical military spade is a true classic design. You can use it for digging, hitting your foe and frying eggs all just as well. This short model is a sapper / engineer model. They probably still manufacture almost identical spades in Russia. No joke. These spades however are Romanian army issue from the Ceaucescu era.

  • Total length about 50 cm / 19.7" (varies a few cm from shovel to shovel)
  • Blade width 15 cm (5.9"), length 19 cm (7.5"), length with the socket piece 27 cm (10.6"), but might vary just slightly from shovel to shovel
  • Weight about 670 grams

Some bushcrafters like to bring a spade with them for various camp tasks. These are pretty cool for that kind of purposes and crude enough to use for rough tasks without fear of ruining a "good" shovel. If you want to save space in your pack, you could make the shaft easier to remove for transport and pack both the blade and the shaft on top of each other. Of course a true pro always makes the shaft from local materials!

Such short spades are sometimes sharpened and used for throwing purposes. You could probably do the same with this.

Romanian army stuff!

These are pretty old, and used with the love and care usually associated with vast East Bloc conscript armies. All are "intact", meaning the shaft might wobble a bit (normal with military spades), but such a "problem" is rather easy to fix. The details and length of the shaft piece might vary from shovel to shovel.

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05.05.2022 Verified purchase
Mine came properly dirty with a rock solid, zero wiggle fit of the shaft and an admirable amount of original paint still clinging to the steel. This will make a wonderful poop shovel.
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23.10.2022 Verified purchase
A battered but serviceable stout shovel, just as expected. Mine arrived in typical covering of cosmoline or other equivalent martial ooze. The handle was a bit loose, so I removed the screw and set about cleaning up the works. A few doses of CitriSolve removed most of the ooze and some elbow grease and steel wool with a light oil removed the rust from the steel. I cold blued the steel to darken it and sanded down some of the gouges on the handle so it still emanated character but not splinters. Then I plugged the screw hole with some crazy glue and baking soda, let it set, and tapped the handle back into the blade to make a secure fit. Redrilled the hold and screwed the screw back in. Now that's going over the mantle! Not really, it's going in my truck.
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