The job entailed shoveling after a snowstorm and he followed his father's advice to keep the shovel as light as possible by removing the snow after each stroke.
It is very important to keep the shovel as vertical as possible to avoid breaking the clam.
Keep the shovel close to your body rather than extending your arms all the way.Tighten your stomach muscles and then lift with your legs as if you are doing a squat.
As Mr. Perez kept the shovel flying, Mr. Muhs sat with his feet in the trench and used both hands to push and drag away gobs of sand until the Garden State became -- a torso.
Keep a shovel between the rooster and yourself.
They know that shovels won't do, that only earthmovers will.
He invited us to shovel dirt into the grave, and after we made a preliminary attempt he admonished us, rather sternly, that we had to keep shovelling until the coffin was completely covered.
"Do they throw their snow shovels away at the end of winter and have to get new ones the following year?" "I think they keep their shovels, but they put them in the shed and can't find them the next time it snows," Chris theorized.
Dad kept a shovel by the garage door.
