Trowel by jury

[Adi007]

Or a big digging stick!!!!

:shock: :-D

Yeah, digging stick, unless there is a group of us and then something more substantial like a entrenching tool

 

[MartiniDave]

You could try using a dibber - and then working on your accuracy! :shock: :-D :-D

Dave

 

[Roving Rich]

:rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao: :biggthump
That reminds me of a Mr Whippy joke, but its a visual one so it has to wait for a gathering
Nice one Dave
Cheers
Rich

 

[Nod]

I thought we were supposed to bag it and take it home with us? :shock:

You know. Leave only footprints take only memories etc etc etc.
Or are two footprints either side of a hole OK? :-?

Just joking......no more OP drills for us old boys. Shovel Recce rules apply.

I use a stick, or if it's an emergency, my dartmoor blade. Big as a shovel and I can keep my wipes in the hollow handle.

 

[Adi007]

You could dig a whole latrine with a Dartmoor blade!!! :-D

I use a stick, or if it's an emergency, my dartmoor blade. Big as a shovel and I can keep my wipes in the hollow handle.

 

[Hoodoo]

If you are a traveling man, i.e., you are covering a lot of ground backpacking, stopping to carve a digging stick every time you have to potty is a pain in the bottom. Carve a good one and it's a bit heavy to lug around. I still vote for the lightweight plastic trowel. I have one that is 25 years old and still going strong so they hold up, last forever, and do the deed. :-D Now if you are a sedentary sort that likes to hang out at a basecamp, that's a different story, eh? Good place to practice your woodcraft.

 

[Roving Rich]

Spot on Hoodoo, that is exactly my point. Just I can't see plastic one lasting on our flinty soil.
Stuart have you found a titanium folder yet? I'm impressed, but you will fail you mission...
Cheers
Rich

 

[ChrisKavanaugh]

You might consider one of these, which are a popular item in many garden catalogs. Basically a spearpoint trowel, slightly concave with one serrated and one standard edge. Aside from latrine duty, a digging implement can create a depression for shoulders on a bedground, drainage in wet weather etc. Titanium is fefinitely wiz-bang, but consider such exotic materials take a trenendous amount of extraction costs and local impact. Watching a local woodland disappeer under a highway is sad enough. Packing a tool that represents several metric tonnes of earth no less Not that I'm fitted out like Oetzi, just something to ponder :-o

 

[Stuart]

I've found a folding titanium shovel, but I've not yet found the trowel

 

[Adi007]

I've found a folding titanium shovel, but I've not yet found the trowel

The shovel for when you REALLY have to go! :shock:

 

[MartiniDave]

Perhaps we should link to this shovel from the tobasco thread?
:-D :-D :-D

 

[Adi007]

): ): ): ):

Think we might need a bigger shovel!!!

Perhaps we should link to this shovel from the tobasco thread?
:-D :-D :-D

 

[SquirrelBoy]

I`ve got a black plastic trowel from a garden centre - it comes with graduated measuring marks....

.... guess you dig to a depth that is appro for your prevailing condition

 

[TAHAWK]

I`ve got a black plastic trowel from a garden centre - it comes with graduated measuring marks....

.... guess you dig to a depth that is appro for your prevailing condition

A good place to look. :!: There are Kevlar reinforced and carbon fibre models out there for gardeners who want light AND tough for their puttering around. Such models should stand up better to the tougher soils than our old orange plastic standards.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Someone better tell Jack we've found another use for BILLHOOKS