Unknown folding shovel

[freeman]

Hi there

I dig in our garden a strange folding shovel i think its is an army shovel but cant find from which army or year. I found there a wehrmacht stahlhelm too.
I hope that somebody there will be able to identify that shovel

[GasMasksUK]

I have no idea about the shovel, but if thats the kind of thing you are finding in your garden.......wow

Thanks for showing and welcome to the forum

Danny

[Walkwolf]

Yes ! Keep digging !!!





Regards, Steve.

[freeman]

Thanks
I heard rumors that there should be a soviet pps 41 somewhere in our garden I hope that I will dig it.
We have house in village in hills where soviet and slovak partizans were.

[Mannlicher]

The shovel is Hungarian, found a picture II. villágháborús gyalogsági ásó Nincs Minimálár!

I'm using one for gardening. Very sturdy

Cheers.
C

[freeman]

Many thanks for identification

[Mannlicher]

You're welcome. It can be cleaned easily. And a wooden piece for the tail isn't hard to procure.

[freeman]

Here is the shovel after some cleaning with lemon acid
I cleared a lot of rust from folding mechanizm but it still dont work

[Mannlicher]

Looking good so far...

But you can use a rotary brush attached to a drilling machine for a faster cleaning. And the mechanism can be unstuck by fixing the blade in a vice and force the tail section left-right with a longer piece of pipe put over it.

Before that, you could tap the mechanism with a small hammer, so the small bits of lose dirt and rust would fall off.

And also a bit of WD-40 or other penetrating oil on the mechanism would help

It's not a flimsy piece so a bit of rougher treatment won't hurt.

[freeman]

Rotary brush and hammer already used i wil try to move it with pipe as you say. I am carefull because its my first thing that I dig

Please post pic of wooden handle if you could.