Metallics CWFD400 29in Drain Spade w/Fiberglass

The CWFD400 is a 29 inch drain spade with a fiberglass handle. The narrow, scooped blade of a drain spade is made for cutting and cleaning out trenches rather than moving bulk material, so it suits digging and clearing conduit or drain runs, trenching for underground electrical, and squaring up the bottom of a narrow ditch. Order it by model number CWFD400.

Fiberglass. The CWFD400 is built with a fiberglass handle, which is what crews generally want on a trenching tool because it does not splinter, swell, or dry-rot the way wood does when the tool lives on a truck or in the weather. Overall length is 29 inches, so it is a short-handle spade meant to be worked from the edge of a trench or in close quarters rather than a long-handle digging shovel.

29 inches is the stated length of the Metallics CWFD400 drain spade. That puts it in short-handle territory, so if your crew wants a tool they can stand upright on and lever with both hands at full extension, a long-handle drain spade is the better pick. For trench cleanout, working beside a conduit run, or digging where there is no room to swing a long handle, the 29 inch length is the point of it.

No options to specify. The drain spade is sold as a single model, CWFD400, with the 29 inch fiberglass-handle configuration. There is no length, blade, or handle choice to make on the order.