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51 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
It remunerated for itself today!
By James R. Schwartz
I purchased this to replace an “army-type” foxhole shovel that I purchased at an Army surplus store. You know, the kind with the metal blade and wooden handle. That one proved useless, with it is wooden handle breaking a few years ago, on it is basi use.
I saw similar folding shovels at camping stores. Cheap ones with plastic handles. I knew better than to buy any of those.
Then I saw this shovel here on Amazon, and hesitated because of the price. But I purchased it, and am glad I did. I keep it in my pickup truck. Today, a few hours ago, my truck got stuck on an old country road. There wasn’t a lot of snow, but there were “ice ruts” from the former snowfall. My truck got stuck in these ruts. This shovel was capable to chop through the ice, no problem. The metal blade didn’t break, and the metal handle didn’t break. In fact, you can’t even tell the shovel had been used, even though I was hacking away through hard ice for over half an hour. This shovel salaried for itself today.
19 of 21 persons found the following review helpful.
Great Shovel
By T. Hackett
This is one of the best shovels I have ever used. It is well constructed. Tough materials. Great size for a fold up shovel. Most shovels have a little blade, but this one has a huge blade and it is serrated, which is very shape and makes cutting through things very easy. It has two positions, shovel and pick. It goes into the ground with ease.I would commend this shovel to anyone. It is worth the price.
43 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
Incredibly versitile tough shovel
By L. S. Pray
First off this is lighter weight than a frequent military etool. Even even though it’s used by US Marines and NATO it is employed to keep the weight down in their packs or belts. Shovel may work great in place of a post hole digger as the blade is somewhat curved to facilitate a round hole. Shovel head may be positioned as a scoop to scoop out dirt. It may be straight, 90 degrees, and a hoe configuration with the gears (dogs) on the handle for positioning to lock in place. Can likewise be applied as a ground tamper. Your turn knob is up on the handle and not down at the actual blade area. You may jamb it into the ground and use as a corkscrew to make round holes. Great for planting and digging up little trees and plants. A friend of mine has this tool and he is in a alien military as a Special Forces guy. When he primary got his Gerber he set out to in a literal sense destruct it to see if he could in fact break it at all. After putting it altho torture tests such as leaning versus a tree and kicking it vigourously for a half hour, slamming the plastic handle into an armoured vehicle a dozen times, he uses as a fry pan cooking his breakfast (not kidding here folks he in truth does) making his breakfast of eggs and canned meat, and later on as a fry pan for his steak (after washing of course after using all day digging holes, etc), using it as a rest to rest his posterior on to take a dump (be careful with your intention is his advice), throwing it into a huge tree trunk (after 2 times the 3rd time was the charm and stuck). His only complaint was as follows: It does not do very well when run over by a tank. The blade got V shaped and was a little fruity after that but the handle was still intact with only a few scratches on it. His alternate did not do very well when accidently thrown into the ocean at high tide. He confessed that he could not wreck it after a month of pure abuse. He said he never commended anything like this before as he was so impressed by this ETool. The ones given to him by his military pales in comparison with broken handles and broken off blades. If you know how to use this etool it may be a very effective weapon as well. He’s 6′ and weighs 190 lbs. and is pure muscle. He was a farmer in civilian life and would break shovels left and right as he is very handed. With a recommendation like that I just had to buy one and guess what? He’s more than right. This tool slides effortlessly into the ground whether it has grass on the surface or not. Digging is speeded up and the work area is much neater than a full size pointed shovel. I highly commend it myself. Might try cooking a steak over an open fire like my friend sometime. He even sawed a 5″ branch off a tree and then split it leaning one branch versus the other side of the blade. He said he’s going to leave his axe back at camp as this etool may replace his axe as well. This is a highly versatile tool.
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