Glossary / Other Hand Tools

Charging shovels

Also called charger

Long shovels for loading cullet or batch into the furnace.

What it is

A charging shovel is a long-handled shovel for filling the furnace. Spiral Arts makes one with a stainless head on a chromoly body that holds 25 pounds of cullet, and a lighter all-aluminum version.⁠⁠[1]

Sources

  1. Spiral Arts — Charging Shovel

Charging shovels in the archive 1

Photo Tool Maker Sellers
Charging ShovelA shovel for charging cullet into the furnace. It holds about 25 lb, in stainless (16 lb) or a lighter aluminum version (8 lb). Spiral Arts 1