"Try to..." or "Try and..."?

Why are you trying to find a spade in the first place? Do you often mislay them? Is your garden shed so big that you might be unable to locate said implement?

That's pretty much it. I had such difficulty finding my spade, I was forced to delegate the task to a team of gardeners, to which I asked "could you please try to find my spade?".
 
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