Digging bar

A digging bar is a long, straight metal bar used for various purposes, including as a post hole digger, to break up or loosen hard or compacted materials such as soil, rock, concrete and ice or as a lever to move objects. Known by other names depending on locale, structural features and intended purpose such as a hop bar or crowbar in Britain, Australia and New Zealand,^[1] and slate bar, shale bar, spud bar, pinch point bar or San Angelo bar in North America, or just a bar. In Canada, it is often called pry bar. In Hawaii, a similar, traditional wooden device known as an ‘o‘o stick is used as a digging bar in groundbreaking ceremonies.^[2] Not to be confused with a curved crowbar, which is designed to provide leverage rather than to dig.