Swedish Army Shovel

[tedw]

Just been surfing for a snow shovel for winter mountaineering and hit on this:

http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/itemDetail.cfm?product=Swedish Folding Rescue Shovels&Item=550

Looks like something that could meet both my mountaineering and bushcraft needs . Does anyone know where I could get one? And at a reasonable price !

Ted W

 

[Beer Monster]

If its the one I'm thinking of then its a heavy beast. I haven't seen one available in the uk.

You proabably be better off going for one of the light weight shovels by Black Diamond, BCA or Ortovox.

 

[jayuk]

John's Army surplus (73-75 Horley Road, Redhill, Tel 01737 761755) had a huge box of grade 1 Swiss army snow shovels about a year ago. I think they were aluminium and about £3 each. Not sure if they still have them in stock or if they do mail order.

Hope this helps.

 

[Bumblebee]

Nah, they aren't particulary heavy. Good piece of kit!

Ooops, I shouldn't have said anything . Now 200 BCUK bushcrafters will start yelling for yet another swedish surplus group buy!

 

[mal]

Are they better than the NATO folding shovel

 

[CLEM]

I saw a Glock folding shovel once,their pistol are supposed to be good but ive no idea about their shovels.

 

[Brian]

Mal,

The problem with the folding shovel is it's too small, OK if your on your knees while digging but I'm six foot. I prefered the old army shovel with the longer handle, the swedish one looks nice, a good length but I think it's meant for moving snow not dirt. The head looks larger than the folding shovel so would be a lot better at moving snow. I would quite like one to carry in my car in the winter instead of my folding one, so am quite interested to see if anyone can find them.

Brian

 

[Daniel Edwards]

When I was at my local army surplus store there were some folding shovels, don't know if they were swiss ones, but they weren't very expencive and I expect that most surplus stores do them.