Sea to Summit Pocket Trowel (for toilet duties)

[Lynx]

I spotted this recently on Amazon and decided to buy one. Designed for toilet duties, very robust and a hollow collapsible handle in which to store a lighter and toilet paper.

What a neat idea! It even comes with a bag to carry it in. Excellent value for money.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001AOM9B8

 

[tartanferret]

Sea to summit do some nice stuff! For digging cat holes etc i have a spare MSR snow stake. Think shewie crafted one from the alpkit version.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

i have one and its great. Used to be called the ipood but apple went legal on them lol.

 

[jacko1066]

Lol love my ipood! It's quality!! The little hollow on the handle is great for emergency loo roll lol


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[Lynx]

I never fail to be amazed at the kit that's available these days.

 

[Laurentius]

I spotted this recently on Amazon and decided to buy one. Designed for toilet duties, very robust and a hollow collapsible handle in which to store a lighter and toilet paper.

What a neat idea! It even comes with a bag to carry it in. Excellent value for money.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001AOM9B8

Seriously though why pay good money for that when you can buy a folding trowel from poundland, or if you are absolutely into weight saving you can make something out of a plastic bottle? Sea to Summit may make some decent gear, but bargain this is not.

 

[petrochemicals]

it looks useful being flat, but at the same time it looks blunt. Anyone for fiskars ?

Edit :

you forgot to mention it was aluminium and 99g.

If you get a cheap steel trowell and cut it down you can get it to weigh about the same.

 

[MikeLA]

Great idea but I generally use my boot heel and a stick or my fingers. Can't get any lighter than that

 

[Lynx]

It actually says on the packaging "Aluminium alloy anodized to Rockwell HRC70". Sounds like its more than capable of doing a grand job and it is very light also. A bit more than your average aluminium trowel methinks.

 

[Nomad]

Anodising is a surface treatment - only a very thin layer, barely more than a few microns thick, will be in the hardened state. Damage the surface (not as hard to do as some of the blurb often implies), and you're through to the normal metal underneath.

 

[British Red]

You can get a hard plastic trowel that weighs 60g or less for under £3...so what advantage does this have being significantly heavier and much more expensive?

 

[cbr6fs]

Tried several trowels from plastic to metal, either they broke i felt they were to heavy.

Been using the Qiwiz MEGA Dig Titanitum cathole trowel for a while now and if i lost i'd buy another

Have even used it as a tent peg on a soggy mountain side.

 

[British Red]

A titanium pooper scooper? That's the funniest thing I have ever read - thank you - I'll be laughing all night at that one

 

[woodsorrel]

I use a stainless steel folding trowel with the amusing name: U-Dig-It.

http://www.amazon.com/U-Dig-It-Stai...=UTF8&qid=1401669173&sr=8-1&keywords=u+dig+it

I see a product in the UK that looks much the same:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294

- Woodsorrel

 

[petrochemicals]

I use a stainless steel folding trowel with the amusing name: U-Dig-It.

http://www.amazon.com/U-Dig-It-Stai...=UTF8&qid=1401669173&sr=8-1&keywords=u+dig+it

I see a product in the UK that looks much the same:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294

- Woodsorrel

yup they're a quid in our English pounds from a proprieter called poundland. But at 7.2 oz (or 200g plus) its a little bit much. Plastic ok, but I reitterate M'lerned council on a cheap steel trowell cut down.

Also bought a Fiskars brush hook, will cut it to a hole digger/chopper and do a show and tell of it, at 300g it seems like a good lightweight tool.

Anyone wants a fiskars plastic trowell I can get em for a couple a quid

 

[cbr6fs]

A titanium pooper scooper? That's the funniest thing I have ever read - thank you - I'll be laughing all night at that one

Don't really scoop poop with it, i use it to dig a cat hole then try and aim to get the poop in the hole.
So it's more a titanium trowel than a pooper scooper.

 

[woodsorrel]

... But at 7.2 oz (or 200g plus) its a little bit much...

You have a very valid point, petrochemicals. I forget about the weight until I have to load my pack at the start of a trip. It is heavy for its size.

- Woodsorrel

 

[petrochemicals]

You have a very valid point, petrochemicals. I forget about the weight until I have to load my pack at the start of a trip. It is heavy for its size.

- Woodsorrel

thank you for saying. Plus the fact you have to assemble it. They are useful for hot coals though !

 

[ADz-1983]

The MSR Blizzard Stakes make a good lightweight trowel. Strong and only 23g

 

[petrochemicals]

The MSR Blizzard Stakes make a good lightweight trowel. Strong and only 23g

can't buy that. Its aluminium, its thin, its narrow, its only 24 cm, its uncomfortable to hold, and is it a snow one ? it would fail soon after hurting your hand.