Ahem, the survival stick.

[Nice65]

This just turned up in my email account. Good grief!!!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/102697694/survival-hiking-stick-20

From the review section: "My wife is so OBSESSED with this stick!! I'm surprised she has not slept with it."

 

[Robbi]

linkeeee no workeeee

 

[Nice65]

linkeeee no workeeee

On it, it's personal to my email account I think.

 

[Nice65]

Should be working now

 

[Jared]

How much aliexpress crap can you tie to a walking stick?

 

[Robson Valley]

Big deal. Local ones made in McBride can be finished with red and green running lights and/or turn signals.

 

[Janne]

What does he know???

I like my walking stick to be light. Collapsible, a leather wrist thong and a very hard, sharp tip.

 

[Robson Valley]

The local wood shop uses diamond willow for hiking sticks. It has a measured breaking strength more than 5X fresh bone.
My D1 and SIL came to visit. Took them to the wood shop for custom sticks. The picked out what they wanted from a batch of 50+.
Everything from length, thumb notch and thong to finish and tip spike. Custom work.

The shop guys have just finished the head board and foot board, squares within squares, for a king size bed in DW.
I wouldn't blink at the price, if I had the room!

 

[Laurentius]

The local wood shop uses diamond willow for hiking sticks. It has a measured breaking strength more than 5X fresh bone.
My D1 and SIL came to visit. Took them to the wood shop for custom sticks. The picked out what they wanted from a batch of 50+.
Everything from length, thumb notch and thong to finish and tip spike. Custom work.

The shop guys have just finished the head board and foot board, squares within squares, for a king size bed in DW.
I wouldn't blink at the price, if I had the room!

Willow is really strong, I can vouch for that, I have made various walking sticks and staves out of willow, using antler handles. I can also vouch for the utility of having a handle that doubles as a pick.

 

[Janne]

It is missing the most crucial Survival Gear attachment. A holder for the Rum bottle.

As you can not rely on the St Bernhards dog finding you with a reviving tot.

 

[nicksteele1990]

Wow. That's certainly an object...

 

[John Fenna]

I would need a porter to carry that for me!
I find that all I need to attract a rescuer in an emergency is one of those miniature packs of playing cards you get in the better kind of Christmas Crackers. It weighs a lot less and is easier to carry....
All you have to do is start playing a game of "Patience" (Solitaire to our Colonial friends) and pretty soon someone will lean over your shoulder to say "Black nine on Red ten...)

 

[Jared]

Should've included a bandanna/shemagh, would certainly make it more practical.

 

[janso]

I would need a porter to carry that for me!
I find that all I need to attract a rescuer in an emergency is one of those miniature packs of playing cards you get in the better kind of Christmas Crackers. It weighs a lot less and is easier to carry....
All you have to do is start playing a game of "Patience" (Solitaire to our Colonial friends) and pretty soon someone will lean over your shoulder to say "Black nine on Red ten...)

😂😂😂 That is so true!!!
That stick though; what an abomination. I'm sorry, but I'm not normally one to put down other people's work that they've invested time and emotion into but that is absolute ****!
I'm all for trekking poles (I remember laughing at them, until I tried a pair, they are so good for the joints!) but that is wrong on so many levels...


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[Jaeger]

Should've included a bandanna/shemagh, would certainly make it more practical.

Yeah but you would have to get the right coloured shemagh for your own 'faction'