>>1887920Take this and a Mora camping and you're set.
It's ability to chop is good enough to prepare firewood, I wouldn't try to split anything with a larger diameter than 5 inches though.
Not that it would break but it would be a struggle.
>>1888497I have pic related, military issue. As digging tool it's superior to fixed etools because you can lock the blade at a 90° angle and use it as a pick. It chops well since the blade is super heavy.
The problem is that it has moving parts of course, the shovel takes it well when you smash it onto the ground tip first in the pick configuration. When you use the side of the shovel blade for chopping it doesn't like it at all. I bent the alu handle minimally with the first (really fucking had) strike into dry apple, so that it developed play because it isn't made to withstand horizontal stress. When I chop now, I grab the middle tube between shovel blade and handle and it works. The screw will work itself loose often and the shovel still works that way, but all the stress is on the threads instead of the mounting plates so if you want them to last you better tighten the screw after 20 strikes or so.
When working with soft dark earth or mud it cloggs the threads right up and the action will feel gritty from that point on unless you take the shovel apart and flush it.
Mind you I'm a perfectionist and giving the negative aspects much room here. The tool is a tank and very inexpensive, for digging it beats fixed etools by miles, chopping is something it does in a pinch, clean often.
>TL;DRFor hiking take a fixed etool.
If you're camping and want to get shit done get a trifold shovel.
