The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

My Grandpa worked in a Kentucky coal mine in 1927-28. I believe this his old scoop, it's been around forever, it looked just like this in the 60's, it was old then. One of you guys might know something about old tools.

At one time every house in America that burned coal for heat had shovels like that for moving coal from the bin into the boilers firebox. Right age for the 1920's, I would have bought that had I seen it at the estate sale. Also good for grain, sand, salt, and so on.

I’m no stranger to coal scoops myself. That’s a short handled one-we used long handled ones on the railroad. Every fireman had his own personal scoop too. You never used someone else’s scoop without permission and if you did borrow someone’s scoop, you made sure not to blunt the edges.