Versatile impact-type hand tool

An impact-operated hand tool comprising:

• an elongated handle having a length of a preselected first dimension and having a lower end and an upper end;
• an elongated impact member having a length of a preselected second dimension that is shorter than said preselected first dimension and having its own respective lower and upper ends, said upper end of said impact member being integrated with a mass component and said lower end of said impact member being formed to be slidably received in mating relationship over the upper end of said handle;
• said impact member, when received over said handle, being slidably movable between (a) a first location in which said mass component is in contact with said upper end of said handle and (b) a second location in which said mass component is not in contact with said upper end of said handle so that said impact member may be moved from said second location to said first location to cause said mass component to strike said upper end of said handle;
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• a spade-like blade fixed to the lower end of said handle, said spade-like blade having:
• respective front and rear faces with respective top and bottom edges, and
• an inclined-ramp component (a) having a low end and a high end and (b) being fixed relative to said front face of said spade-like blade so that said low end of said inclined-ramp component is in proximity to said bottom edge of said front face and said high end of said inclined-ramp component is in proximity to said top edge of said front face.