Cold Steel Spetsnaz Tactical Camp Shovel Tool for Camping, Survival and Outdoors

Handy to keep in your truck if you have the room. Has the longer handle so it's less awkward to dig with. Nicely built. Marbles fireman shovel sheath fits it too for protection. This shovel has 1 or both sides sharpened for chopping.

Great shovel, well made sharp edge, great solid wood handle, both modern & traditional style.....it great for having I. Your truck for emergency... you just never know ..I use it for moving the hot coals when I'm cooking while camping or grilling at home. Very versatile shovel... decent size ..

I know these days its trendy to carry the all metal folding shovels into the woods, the better ones seem to hold up well, the not-so-great ones will bend and break quickly. This shovel is built with the quality one would expect from something costing much more money and here's why... First of all it's a carbon steel shovel, it's made from I believe 1040 but I could be wrong, in any event it will take an edge and hold it, while being characteristically tough enough to handle a beating (it wont chip easily) and keep on doing it's job - a big plus to me. It's durability and sturdiness is obvious the moment to handle it, this is not something cheaply made, it screams quality. Secondly, the head is mounted using two screws, if the handle ever broke while in the woods any competent person could improvise one themselves rather easily - good to know. Third, and this is the really cool part about this shovel, mine came very sharp out of the box and due to the edge profile (something difficult to see in the photos really) it makes a fine chopping tool. When I go camping I don't have to bring a machete - I bring this instead. This is not something many bushcrafters do very often but they might give it a try, having a shovel like this in the woods is great for many reasons. The last thing I will add here is that both sides can be sharpened, effectively making this equivalent to a double bitted axe. The only downside of this shovel is the fact that the handle came coated in really cheap shellac, this took me all of about five minutes to get off and treat the (properly grain oriented) handle with boiled linseed oil. Five stars all day long, great product. Note: A word of warning, there is a smaller version of this shovel (I own one too) it is just as well made, however the head is smaller on it, if you mistakenly purchase the cover/sheath for the small one, it will not fit the large one.

I'm a little disappointed that CS shovel cover doesn't fit this shovel didn't know when I bought the cover and trench shovel together. All that being said the shovel seems to be very sturdy and fully capable of camp choirs and more.

Currently use for landscaping but I'm also an outdoorsy type so it will see some varied use. I just got It and put It to the test in the field on a Big job. Works great for chopping roots, digs well, and can do rough small hatchet work. So far a great multi use shovel. Well made, tough, good steel I tossed It after using and it landed straight on another shovels head and was unfazed taking a pretty hard hit steel to steel. Comes super Sharp from Factory I touched it up with a cigar style sharpening stone with just a few strokes and very easily done simply holding the shovel. https://www.amazon.com/Norton-87938-Garden-Tool-Sharpener/dp/B00004VWLB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=norton+cigar+stone&qid=1598092456&sr=8-1 Norton 87938 Sharpening Stone here on Amazon After using all day the factory razor edge wore a little and I'm now getting a great working edge not to sharp but just right This would work great for gardeners,4 wheelers, ranchers too. It's sort of like a mini lightweight Pulaski. That's the best compliment I can give it. Plus it has a bad azz cool factor to it. Should last awhile comes with a coating on the handle which is alright but I'll rub some linseed oil on it when it wears off. As far as durability,I've used and broken all kinds of shovels digging tools with that said this one should last a long time with moderate care. To conclude I highly recommend this little workhorse, and I will buy another for my emergency kit.

Great little shovel, very sharp and well worth the money. This is the second one I currently own, the other one has a shorter handle. The size is perfect for small jobs and the weight is perfect.

Ordered this one as well as the shorter original(?) version. So far everything not only looks good but works well and has held up to some semi hard work. The increased length is a trade off, more leverage but also it takes up a bit more storage space. Still well worth the price.

Very durable shovel I've used it to tunnel under many decks. Cuts right through clay

I have the shorter shovels of the same ilk and this one, longer than the others, just suits the bill for serious shovelling.

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They are special precise tools for property improvements ranging from digging a pond to making a storm shelter. They have secondary functions for camping and a wide variety of other things. As advertised the larger American 30" version of the 50cm (<20") shovel. There is a special digging technique that needs to be followed for long term use of these shovels to avoid breaking them. You can dig a little bit normally with them but the thick blades make it harder to penetrate soil in typical style and the stress will eventually cause the handle or blade to break if you try and build a large dugout shelter or tunnel like that. The proper technique involves using the shovel as a scraper. One hand on the pommel, one hand just above the blade. Then you scrape a thin piece of dirt like you are shaving chocolate with the tip. As with the 50cm shovel you are likely to need a minimum of a square of 3x shovel lengths to have enough room to scrape across the ground and start your hole moving downwards. It might feel like a slow way to dig but it can be very consistent and low stress and low impact and also (specially with the smaller 50cm shovel) allow hole geometries unavailable to larger shovels. Being the larger 30" version this obviously is going to require more fitness to be able to work with 8+ hours per day BUT being larger it can also dig faster at the cost of requiring more room to do it. So anyways you shave the dirt like shavings of chocolate in a fancy restaurant. Usually sitting or kneeling when going down, whatever works when going forwards or up whatever other direction there is. Once you have a nice pile of shaved dirt (you just let it fall and pile up loose) you scrape it up into a bucket and haul it out. No fooling with the shovel blade for dirt transport mostly. This has one very narrow precision use that it is perfect for and that is all. Everything else that you can do with it is sort of secondary use that may end up breaking it if overused. Done a lot of digging and never broke one with the gentle scraping or shaving, only with stabbing and prying. It still takes a lot to break one by stabbing and prying but if you are building a dugout shelter or tunnel you might. The manufacturer advertising is horrible showing all sorts of stunts that will very likely break the shovel pretty quick. Properly used this is a precision digging tool that can move literal 100s of tons of dirt without breaking like a more agile manually powered backhoe that can dig stairs, tunnels or a whole underground house. It has only that one primary narrow precision use shaving dirt to loosen it and that is it. Any other use even other types of digging may eventually break it. That said it has a variety of potential secondary emergency functions just do not overuse them! Truly amazing tool when properly utilized that can provide years of entertainment and utility building or digging anything you can imagine out of the dirt. Build a cave shelter then use the dirt you dug out to build a house on top! You can make whatever you can imagine out of dirt including highly efficient secondary combustion masonry heaters, rocket stoves, Russian stoves, Kakelugn, secondary combustion enhanced Dakota firepits or whatever you want to call them. Also good for portability but that is definitely secondary to me compared to all the other possibilities. Recommended if you already have the 50cm shovel or are getting it, plan to get fit enough to use it 8+ hours a day and want to have the big brother available to work even faster when you are fit and motivated enough to scale up. Also if you just need a more portable shovel but want something more robust than folding models. However it is good to have the 50cm version for finer smaller or tighter work. Do not think this is just better because it is bigger. If you get only one I recommend the 50cm version first.

Schnell war er da, ordentlich verpackt und unbeschädigt. Ob ich damit wirklich einen Schützengraben ausheben möchte - eher nicht .... Verarbeitung und Finish sind sehr ok, das Schaufelblatt wurde nach der Beschichtung rundum ballig beidseitig angeschliffen, wenn auch nicht ganz scharf. Der vom Spaten bekannte scharfe Absatz des Stiels, wo der Durchmesser zur Einführung in die Stielaufnahme im Blatt reduziert ist, findet sich hier wieder. Der gegenüber dem Spetsnaz-Spaten längere Stiel erleichtert die Buddelei, macht die Schaufel aber etwas sperriger. Das geringfügig größere Blatt wirkt sich weder störend noch besonders vorteilhaft aus, außer vielleicht beim Graben in rolligem Kies oder Sand. Beim Gebrauch (Mißbrauch) als Beilersatz verleiht der längere Stiel deutlich mehr Schwung bzw. gibt dem Hieb mehr Wucht. Maserungsverlauf war bei diesem meinem Exemplar für die Hackerei richtig, scheint aber wohl nicht immer so zu sein. Wobei das weniger eine Holz- als Verarbeitungsfrage ist. Schade, dass Buddeln und Hacken einen 90° versetzten Maserungsverlauf benötigen würden .... Schon "out of the box" ein vernünftiges Werkzeug, bewusst ohne high-tech Anspruch wie Klappspaten von Glock, Gerber etc. - gut und einfach bzw. einfach gut. Die scharfe Kante am Stiel werde ich entschärfen und der Lack am Stiel kommt zugunsten einer Ölbehandlung ab, dann ist das Verbesserungspotential ausgeschöpft.

Decent tool. Solid construction and materials