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Ergo Power Shovels & Spades

Nupla offers a wide range of Ergo Power® Nuplaglas® fiberglass handled shovels and spades.  These tools are the choice of professionals around the world for the heaviest applications.  From state departments of transportation to the most severe underground and electric utility work, railroad, mining and oil industries, these tools are renowned for their safety and durability and are specified more often than any other brand on the market.  The tools are non-conductive and safe for use around all manner of industrial hazards. 

Nupla’s Ergo Power digging tools have specially designed ergonomic handles to fit the user’s hands.  They feature a combination of a sturdy outer sleeve of engineered polymer injection molded over a core of super strong pultruded fiberglass. The Nuplaglas core is manufactured using a patented process of pultruding millions of fiberglass strands combined with resin to create handles of tremendous strength and durability. In extreme use conditions, the external polymer sleeve of the handle will contain any possible fracture of the internal fiberglass core and create a “fail-safe failure” within the handle.  This prevents the potential for user injury as in the case of failure of other materials e.g. wood. Further strength is added to the shovel by means of a patented compression bar integral to the handle that fills and reinforces the throat of the blade.

The ergonomically designed long and short tool handles have a smaller radius at the bottom to comfortably rest in the palm and tapered flat sides for control.  This innovative design provides lower effort and strain and increases tool efficiency by eliminating unnecessary movement, such as the twisting motion required by an unbalanced shovel load.  With improved hand control, the Ergo Power handle design reduces forearm fatigue and blistering of the hands. 

Ergo Power shovels are available in a wide selection of popular blade styles including round point and square point - in variations of closed back, heavy gauge and solid shank patterns - drain spade, garden spade, roofers ripping, serrated roofers ripping, irrigation and sewer spade. 

In addition, the shovels feature a choice of long or short D-handle configurations.

The Ergo Power design is also available in Nupla’s Power Pylon shovel line.

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