Turn sod for a garden, dig a latrine, bury your silver cache, fire fighting, scrape out a trail, throw at a stump, bonk a rattler, move a pile/hole from here to there, lean on while watching some other schmuck work, spread manure, load a pickup with gravel, fill potholes, chop roots (sharpen edges first), use as lever to pry up edge of heavy things, dispose of Pelosi..,