Makita 751626-A 4-1/2" x 17" Clay Spade, SDS-MAX, Black

Ok

Bought it for use with an SDS Mac rotary hammer I had. It turned out to be a lifesaver when grading a garden path I was paving.

Es una herramienta de muy buena calidad y a muy buen precio

The spade bit was the answer to cutting through rose bush and small shrub roots to access a leaking water service line to a house. The water service to a residence had been leaking for an extended period of time. Nearby plants had made this their favorite watering hole and cutting through them with a shovel and axe was a lot of work and time. The spade on my Makita rotary hammer allowed us to cut through the roots, clay and gravel to access the leaking pipe and corroded valve. Probably saved a couple of grand bypassing a plumber on a Sunday call. Piping to the house installed by the original contractor was an abomination!

Used for digging in decomposed granite in southern california soil. Performed exceptioanllly well.

This is just the ticket for digging holes in hard, dry clay or areas loaded with roots! If you can't just push a shovel in, you want this blade! Faster and easier than using a pick or digging bar. Cuts through roots. Appears very strong and good quality.

This thing is a monster. Seems like it’s forged from Thor’s hammer. I use it with my Milwaukee 2718. It can take a beating.

The SDS-MAX part of the shaft was banana shaped, not just bent at one spot. The tooling in the steel was very sub par. No way can this be Makita. I returned it, went to Lowe’s and bought a Bosch clay spade and there was the quality, straight, nice tooling, totally different. Amazon should double check this supplier. It says Makita tools, but I don’t think so. I’m glad it was so bent because I hate returning stuff, but even if it was straight, the tooling was so cheap. So glad I didn’t keep it. Crazy difference with the Bosch.

This spade works great and is a time saver for hard clay, frozen ground, and flowable fill. Works really great in confined areas or when you just want to dig a small hole without disturbing the surrounding ground. It is an accessory that gets used a lot...more than I anticipated when I first bought it. Seems to be durable.

It’s fantastic. I’m a plumber who digs a lot of sump pits in basements and it’s great for digging in the undisturbed soil under the concrete. This spade does an amazing job.

I didn't test it when I got mine so it's too late to return it, but it has a problem: the spade doesn't slide in the SDS max shank (I tested on Makita DHR400 and Makita HR4003), so whenever the hammer has pushed the spade to the max, it is essentially stuck there, until you hit it back to the bottom. This is a problem when digging in irregular terrain, where sometimes the spade will go in like in butter, and then the hammer doesn't work until you pull it and hit it somewhere else harder. I am in the process of sanding the indentations that are used by the SDS retaining mechanism, so maybe the bit will become looser, like its friends (whenever the chuck is pushed back, the bit can slide, so it really has to do with the things that can go in the grooves).