Another artistic use for a snow shovel is using it to shape and contour sand in a backyard Zen Garden. Taking advantage of the shovel's flat sides and unique angles to form patterns in the sand ...

Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel roughly 25 tons of iron-bearing river sand and charcoal into the mouth of a tatara, a rectangular clay furnace built ...

But by the time he tried to connect the two, the sand had dried and it collapsed ... It's probably too deep to be safe if you are using a shovel.' According to statistics obtained from the Centers ...