Cool.

Where do you guys source yours? I'm thinking about replacing my mattock with one.

Another tool that, although wont compete with the above, but that's the bomb on smaller digging or chopping rooty kind of stuff/yard work is the Cold Steel Special Forces shovel. Comes with sharpened edges that can be easily improved. Makes a fearsome weapon as well. Based on the Russian/Soviet infantry shovel. 

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About $20 at Amazon. Great to stick in your truck/car too.

A while back I was doing a house and the water heater wouldn't fit under the crawlspace. The plumbers were struggling to dig the dirt and shale rock out enough to make it fit with a sharpshooter. They were making a royal mess. So, I pulled mine out of the truck and in 20 minutes, cut a custom depression for it to fit. Had to haul all the dirt out in a bucket. Reminded me of a scene out of Stalag 13 or something.

Like all of the Cold Steel stuff, there's nothin wussy about it. Heat treated medium carbon steel. Hardwood handle and two heavy screws holding it on. I've yet to destroy one. Even whacking the handle with a hammer beating through the harder stuff (use a block). Replacement handles are available.

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Make sure you get the 36" classic handle and not the Ergo Power handle.  The standard handle is solid fiberglass and cuts better using the same head.

I have the same one from Home Depot Mike, but somehow mine has got a somewhat severed handle. Looks like someone got bored one day and sawed mine up a bit.

That 36' classic handle version Mark mentioned, which is what I think I have on loan from Fisher Farm, is a much better weighted tool than the one from Home Depot. Not sure if this makes sense, but the tool is so better balanced that I can use the weight of the tool vs. swinging it harder.