Trowel by jury

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Roving Rich

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Oct 13, 2003
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Well nobody mentions carrying a trowel amongst their kit. So what do you do when you need your daily turn out ? I have tried digging with an axe and found it pretty hopeless and ruined the edge when i hit a stone. So some of you with "designer" axes thats a no no. The digging, well generally i've found them more of a scraping stick or pick than a shovel and don't always have the time and means to manufacture one.
So i propose the humble garden trowel as an essential piece of bushcraft kit.
Wot do you reckon? and does anyone know of a folding titanium survival trowel?
Sorry to lower the tone (Tone)
Rich
 

Adi007

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Sep 3, 2003
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Sometimes I have a folding shovel, but usually find it far better to fashion a digging stick. The digging stick can then be used to mix soil into the deposit (to aid decomposition) and then the stick safely disposed of (rather than put back into belt pouch or ruck :shock: )
 

Adi007

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Sep 3, 2003
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Could be worse ... could have started off as a non-folding one! :-D At least it broke in a still usable state!

Womble said:
I used to have a folding trowel.

Then I let the Scouts use it, and now I just have a trowel!
 

Justin Time

Native
Aug 19, 2003
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South Wales
Size 10 Boot

scrape away leaf litter etc

kick hole

add substances to hole

wipe

burn tp in hole

use boot to return dirt to hole

scrape leaf litter back on top

easy
 

Adi007

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 3, 2003
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You missed out a step ... keep boot out of used hole! :shock:

Justin Time said:
Size 10 Boot

scrape away leaf litter etc

kick hole

add substances to hole

wipe

burn tp in hole

use boot to return dirt to hole

scrape leaf litter back on top

easy
 

Justin Time

Native
Aug 19, 2003
1,064
2
South Wales
Adi007 said:
You missed out a step ... keep boot out of used hole! :shock:

:lol: Yes, there are a number of hazards to outdoor toileting, not that any of these happened to me, they happened to a friend;

Losing your balance when in the squat position
misaligning the edge of your trousers/belt
heavy items from belt sliding off into latrine
:oops: :shock: :shock:
 

Hoodoo

Full Member
Nov 17, 2003
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Michigan, USA
I like my comforts. :-D I use a plastic trowel. I modify mine to save weight.

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george

Settler
Oct 1, 2003
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N.W. Highlands (or in the shed!)
Friend of mine was ski touring in the Rockies a couple of years back.

Woke up to find major fall of snow, soft powder. Needed to answer the call of nature and rather than spend time digging down through the snow decided that she would try to "do her business" off the back of her skis.

Pants down, snowplough position, racing crouch was the idea. Didn't work!

She leaned too far back and ended up upside down with her pants at her ankles in several feet of powder! If you've ever felt how cold that Rocky mountain powder snow can get you'll understand just what she went through!

It took almost half an hour for her to get sorted out and get out of the situation - and several months to get over the embarrasment of getting frostnip in her nether regions!

A lesson to be learned there somewhere.

George
 

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