99.95% of the time I'm a shovel man but Francis, you know what I did a few digs ago! In that nightime, crappy, rainy, windy weather I gotta say it was kinda nice staying warm and dry, letting the tube do all the dirty work......ain't making any habit of it, that's for sure but it's a nice wild card when conditions go south.

And on the topic of back strain.....I think a clam gun is worse than a shovel.

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