The Truth About Tactical Shovels! Cold Steel Special Forces vs German NATO Military Surplus
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Someone finally needs to tell the truth. Maybe not me, but let's take a look at two very popular Tactical Shovels: The Cold Steel Special Forces Spetsnaz Shovel and the Bund German Nato tri fold, folding surplus shovel. Both are easy to buy on the internet and cheap- but how do they hold up. Can you camp with them, take them in the field, throw them, or if you have to... kill ??? Ok that's probably too far. In this shovel film, I put them to the test by digging useless holes, talk about ergonomics, and more. To support more shovel based content check out the shovels below. Thanks!
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And those five bitcoins are now worth over $300,000 as expensive shovel
It’s a good shovel William.
@@AdvancedKnifeBro worth every hundred thousand
my favorite use of bitcoins was the guy who spent like 50 on a pizza before they were worth anything.
7-10 ish years ago a gaming tournament paid out the following
1st - $150
2nd - $75
2 players tied for 3rd - 25 Bitcoin each
@@Born_Stellar It's a catch 22 though. Like he said, if he didn't make the purchase to buy pizza with the coins and other people don't actually use it as currency, then the coin won't have any value to begin with and it wouldn't have taken off to begin with. Also I strongly doubt that was all the coins he had. At the very start of Bitcoin mining, coins were very plentiful.
I don't know about you guys, but when I look at a traditional shovel, I am always thinking it could be improved if the handle was shorter so I could bend over and use my back more when digging.
Rob, I have good news…. ….
Yeah, I got me one wit no handel. I attach it to my neck.
@@jaysgood10 neck shovels are essential edc items imho
You should see my Damascus one.
You could just buy a tactical shovel and use it to shorten the handle of your traditional shovel, but at that point there would be no need.
Hey, about 15 years ago at a pew pew show, I purchased a German Nato shovel. I went home and sharpened the edge, and have been much safer since. I carry it to bed, place it under the pillow, and sleep sounder. My wife thinks I am crazy for having a shovel under my pillow. Shows what she knows.
That is the ultimate death sender, clearly she won’t be ready when zombies show up. Loser.
I really “dig” your sleeping arrangement.
Still trying to figure out why you went for a shovel from the start but ok, still cool. I prefer a solid steel mini bat, I ground and polished myself from scrap metal. It's just a 2 foot long 1 and a half inch thick length of round steel bar with a wrapped handle shaped into it and some holes along its length to reduce weight and air resistance. Pretty hefty, good for tight spaces, and won't accidentally slice me in my sleep.
I think your wife is secretly jealous. For crying out loud all ready, get her a nice tactical shovel.
Maybe she keeps it under her pillow, maybe not.
Yeah. Have heard the story about johnny machete who was sleeping with machete every night?
I found the solution to digging shit holes while camping. I grow Carolina reaper peppers (see my pic) And made beef jerky spiced with one pepper for a backpacking trip and that was enough apparently so that when I went #2 it would only come out as acid lava that could not be retained by a little hole but spread out over the wild like Jackson pollock paintings. Much easier than carrying a shovel.
Genius
Like a boss 👍🏼
Eat tomato when you havent eaten a couple days. Same effect
LMAO
Hmmm. The Truth behind Chernobyl finally is declassified...🤔😬😭
I served in the U.S. army as an infantryman, we were issued a folding shovel similar to the one in the video, we referred to it as an E tool, short for entrenching tool, one feature you may not be aware of, is when doing your business in nature, you dig the hole, fold the “blade” 90 deg. Tighten the collar, place the handle loop on the ground and sit (half way) on the back of the blade while completing the transaction, then use the folded shovel to cover your “tracks”
guess i should have read a few of the comments..... just posted the same thing! Marines know that trick too...
Cool tip.
Think of the things that surplus shovel has seen...
Yup.
It’s a great function for chopping up soul in the garden too. Have always had a thing for these shovels.
I work way out in the Arizona desert, and sometimes I work nights. It was one of these knights that I just couldn't help that I was feeling watched. I felt uneasy and my hairs were standing on end. I kept looking around but could not see anything (weak flashlight for up close inspection work). My coworker heads over to the area just beyond ours in a truck and radios back that there is a big mountain lion that was just off the side of the road 100 yards away. The only thing besides a pocket knife I had was the cold steel shovel. It aint much against a lion but holding that thing with me was the only comfort I had besides Jesus as I had to finish my work. I knew I at least had a small chance of catching it in the head if it charged me and that was enough to help me finish work. I pick cold steel and always will.
It would have been a fair fight.
Just got to make sure he doesn't come at you from the back. Shovel, knife, firearm, bazooka doesn't matter because it won't do much if you don't see it coming.
Glad you made it through the night!
@@btrswt35 Ya. God is good, had my head on a swivel.
@@nunninkav considering possible outcomes I would definitely want an extra edge against a mountain lion
If all you have is a shovel, everything looks like dirt.
I don't just"like" this sort of shovel-based content... I love it!
I know I’m diggin it!
Goon spoon operator was my first job. Love me a good shovel.
Ah yes, the tactical shovel. For all your tactical digging needs. Like when you're out in the park with your kids and suddenly you're beset by a band of hooligans in armoured half-tracks. Your average Joe might be caught short in such a situation, but not tactical EDC man. He has his tactical shovel and can whip up a defensive trench and foxhole network in just a few hours. He has his tactical altoids tin in which he keeps his tactical razor wire and tactical caltrops. His tactical EDC pouch contains tactical amphetamines to keep his mind sharp during these surprise tactical situations. On his tactical belt is a tactical fixed blade and a tactical multitool, and his tactical belt buckle is also a tactical knife. In just one afternoon he has tactically batoned enough logs to build a tactical blockhouse. Using his tactical keychain Swiss Army Knife and the tactical metalworking kit in his tactical backpack he has constructed a tactical .50 caliber M2 Browning machinegun nest. Tactically he routs the ruffians with precision tactical firepower and tactical combat manoeuvres he learned from his tactical tactics notebook. EDC man can rest safe knowing he has saved another day by the power of tactical carry gear.
This is genius.
Uh, if I may be nitpicky, it's tactiCOOL...this was written using my tacticool pen with glass breaker, phillips head screw driver, knife blade, and ferro rod striker combo. Oh and it has a pencil too.
Taccy
Tactical like incoming!
26(?) tacticals. More than those old cold steel commercials could manage.
Just wanted to say I love your channel. Love the humor. I have however, actually had to use cutting tools to survive ( homeless in a small town ), and I gotta say, I wish I had some of the tools you've featured in the past, especially some of those flashlights! Anyway, please keep it up. You're hilarious.
No paper cut test
No food prep test
No fire-starting test
No batoning test
What sort of a review do you call this?
My search has finally ended. I have found the ultimate "shovel based content" channel & I am satisfied. Might I add? ... I'm really digging this shovel based content. (sound of crickets) I'll show myself out.
The Cold Steel shovel has been my go to for years now, and with this and a good knife, I have never felt underequipped. I find the CS shovel to be a very capable shovel/hatchet/machete. I like to carry the shovel in hand when I hike, so I painted it orange, so that it looks like a tool and not a weapon when I encounter other people on the trail. EDIT: I've gotten a number of comments that suggest that people are interpreting what I said to mean that I think of the cold steel shovel as a weapon and I'm disguising it so people won't know that I'm carrying a weapon when I hike. That's not really what I meant. What I meant was, I think of it as a tool but scaredy-scat snowflakes sometimes see it as a weapon, especially when I encounter them in the woods. So that's why I painted it orange, so it would be less intimidating. ;)
Agreed!
"Cool"
How many weird looks did you get before your painted it orange? Be honest now.
@@atomicsmith happened more than once, which is why I painted it. I imagine it would be the same if I walked down a trail holding an axe, or a big knife.
@@Pharto_Stinkus I always assumed those were looks of admiration.
Need a shallow grave? Hell yeah. I don’t have the time for a deep one. Let’s go!!!
I had an old Korean Shovel. Loved it, used it everywhere.
Advanced shovel bro. I’m digging it!!”
But it could have used some batoning.
Agreed Sir.
Finally one I already got to stay too alpha. I bought mine for dog poop pickup.
The cold steel one with the wooden handle so my fingies don’t get frosty when I’m shoveling winter frozen turds.
How well does it split frozen dog turds
Stil own my old nato shovel from my time in the Dutch army, great piece of kit.
Already 30 seconds in and talking about burying bodies 🤣 AHAHAHA
While serving in the Bundeswehr, I used the trifolding shovel quite a bit. You should have mentioned, that the head can be fixed in two positions: as a shovel or a pickaxe, which is quite useful, when digging in heavy soil. Its a quite versatile and sturdy piece of equipment - digging, prying or splitting wood (with the tip of the shovel and a baton) works quite well, using it as an axe creates terrible handshock but is possible. The legend says, its an incredible weapon for hand-to-hand combat, but i cannot confirm that... They will take a lot of abuse, but are not indestructible, the weak spot are the four rivets, connecting the shovel blade to the hinge mechanism - mine broke at that point after prolonged use as a prybar and pickaxe ;)
Man munkelt in Mannschafter Kreisen von einem in Oliv Gekleideten grauhaarigen Gefreiten der irgendwann in den 80er Jahren in den Wäldern von Hammelburg oder in Bonnland vergessen wurde, dieser soll in Dunklen Nächten nur mit Klappspaten und BW Stumpf bewaffnet unachtsame Torposten und Alarmposten angreifen und dann Wieder im Wald Verschwinden. Ruft man in diesen Orten Ein lautstarkes „Horrido“ soll man wohl ab und zu ein Leises „Joho“ als Antwort zurück bekommen.
I guess it should live longer without the prybar abuse. The pickaxe is my favorite position. I also sit on it that way. Not the best stool but besser als nichts
Finally a shovel video!
Chasing that shovel video clout
Does Lynn love you yet?
Don’t think so. Maybe I’m unloveable?
@@AdvancedKnifeBro
His loss
The sharpened edge gets under the dog 💩 better!
for big dogs that make GROWN MAN DUMPS
@@utrak California requires you to follow your dane or mastiff with a front end loader😆
I do somehow appreciate this well made, self loathing content. I've hated "tactical" shovels for many years now, despite having used many (albeit almost exclusively to dig holes for "sanitary purposes"). It seems we do agree on this lack of point. Fist bumps and stuff, Bro.
"Shovel Industrial Complex"
There's just not enough good quality small shovel content on UA-cam these days. Thanks for doing your part to address that travesty.
Advance Spetsnazs Bro
How to stay alpha with a parasite. That's a conundrum
I once saw a very tough eastern European man with an unsharpened full length shovel swinging it like an axe and cutting roots. He also told me about a rooster that attacked his son so he ripped its head off. Good times...
Ah man, tactical gardening!!
Cant wait for the weekend now!!
I once killed a tape worm with my tactical shovel.
4:23 - Regarding using an ax to chop roots - I’ve done this for years with a double bit ax where I use one sharpened side for actual cutting of wood & the other much more bluntly sharpened side when swinging at or near the ground. I’ve always understood that to be the purpose of having the second bit but perhaps I’m an idiot which makes my father & grandfather both idiots since they’re the ones who taught me this.
Good video btw. Always enjoy your content.
I'm not calling you an idiot at all but I was always told (atleast in the olden days) thats one side of the double bit head was slightly thicker for splitting and the other was thinner for chopping. I dont know if thats true though!
I think it can be for either of what you've said.
There are no definitive answers, just other uses.
@@13irishsailors Seems reasonable as well. My family has done surveying in the Catskill mountains for generations and our primary uses for an ax were cutting traverse lines & posts as well as clearing a spot to either build a stone pile for a corner or drive in a metal rod.
Lot of root work calls for a pulaski axe.
I thumbs-ed up at work, to soak in all the knife/shovel bro glory later. 😎
My old folding head entrenching tool works just fine. Gives me a pick too.
:-D During my conscript time, we had a mixture of the two. Imagine the cold steel one but with the folding mechanism of the NATO one where the shovelhead and the handle are connected.
It's like a multitool compared to dedicated tools. -> better than nothing, but not even close to as good to use as dedicated tools for the job. So i didn't think many people would go so far and buy these items. (I man ok if you are offroading or camping and space is a real issue it makes some sense)
Even our NCO told us: "This little spade is to dig foxholes and trenches if you don't have any other tools, but more importantly, it's the best close quaters weapon you are issued. It has proven itself in two world wars." (To put that in context: we were issued a field knife...)
I have one of those older, wooden handled, folding head ones too. I like that it's longer than the Cold Steel, but I haven't used it in a very long time.
Being a former United States Marine I can honestly say that the folding show does come in quite handy especially for let's say what we call pick digging where we turn the head of the shovel to where it looks like a letter l and it's tighten it down real tight and use it that way excellent as for being straight it does work very well however it does have a tendency of listening up over a period of time using it digging with it as in you would a regular shovel. Plus the twisting from side to side of the several blade does have a tendency depending on what model you have that blade of the shovel can bend. That being said it's an excellent tool except for the twisting of the blade from time to time or the mechanisms of where you tighten it down loosening up or bending. However you cannot throw it like you can Cold steel shovel you can't do that twisting a little bit from side to side even though with a cold steel shovel it's just one straight handle and doesn't give you the ability to be able to dig the way you can with the handle of the folding shovel. That being said if you're really going to go out in the woods and you're going to spend some time out there by both of these shovels they come incredibly handy and they will not let you down as long as you basically are not trying to seriously kill the shovel.
I am going to work in the phrase "tactical gardening" every chance I get.
I stay up at night wondering why this channel doesn't have several million subscribers.
You’re an excellent writer. Love the humor. Thanks for making these videos.
Like the review and your review style 😎 cheers from ireland 🇮🇪
Growing weed shovels, abrakadoobie
Using one of those for any length of time.... works better when paired with a set of cheap Contractor's knee pads.
some of your best work. however, no blue lines. i am happy to hear you have started to collect shovels! i have some recommendations for you...
~Hey knife bro, you're not so advanced, I bet you don't open beers with a Kabar feeling like Rambo while doing it.~
Thanks for the review, despite the jokes you present the thing and test its performance in a clean and engaging manner.
I often cosplay as ‘The Shoveler’
Edit: this is top notch shovel content
Edit 2: did Lyn approve this video of his murder 🥩 shovel?
Mystery men reference!
@@AdvancedKnifeBro yes. like you, I am at the tail end of genX
love the shoveler's use of the spade.
I shovel. I shovel very well.
My dad has the folding one in his car as long as I can remember, extremely helpful tool that did its job a lot of times.
UA-cam hates you. I love your content and try and watch every episode that you post. I thought you were on hiatus for the past few months. Nope, posting regularly. Just never in my feed.
I have posted more these last two months than I have in a long time. Please click that alert bell!
Ok, that was REALLY funny!
From this video, I now believe you only go camping to poop
Shovels usually mean work so I go to great lengths to avoid them. Even the cute little ones.
Was issued and, later, purchased the NATO shovel. Purchased the “Spetznaz” shovel. Neither holds a candle to the WW I/WW II German style trench shovel (fixed square-tipped blade on a straight shaft handle with a palm swelling to hold onto). File sharpen the tip edge so the tool can cut roots or shave bark; file sharpen the side edges so you can chop wood, take down small trees, or dis-arm your foe. German trench raiders during WW I armed themselves with pistols, hand grenades, and their shovel properly sharpened. Oh, yes, the slightly rounded back of the blade allowed the subduing and taking of a prisoner without permanent damage. The only real advantages the NATO shovel has are compactness and the ability to right-angle the blade for “picking” a hole in frozen ground; otherwise, the spade handle is offset enough to make chopping awkward. The “Spetznaz” is similar to and prettier than the trench shovel, but less sturdily built.
I have the longer handled version of the cold steel. It's mounted to the roof rack of my Subaru so people know my lifestyle. The finish on the handle has not held up well to the elements in the 10 months it's been up there and I plan to refinish it with a better varnish. Other than that sweet shovel!
This video answered a question most men are simply too afraid to ask.
The wooden handle one was used to astounding effect in Mister Inbetween. Made me wanna buy one.
Hey throwing shovels is fun not useless
Another really handy thing about the tri-fold, after you dig your cat hole, you can fold the top handle over, and it's pretty useful as a poopin stool!
If you’re looking to make more non-knoife content, would you consider some flavor of folding saw? Currently the most in-depth treatise on the subject is by The Reverend Doctor Colonel Nutnfancy Esquire III and it’s time a challenger gave us something more coherent and humorous than his ramblings
Try GideonsTactical. He does a lot of folding saw reviews and they're a bit more to the point and less rambly than Nutn.
I come for the brilliant humor, not fancy video making gear. Charlie Chaplain was hilarious and look how crappy the video footage is. We need more videos that make us laugh at ourselves and this knife obsession we share. I hope you make enough money doing this some day to be a full time mirror showing ourselves through hilarious videos. Where is the tip jar?
As a former german drill instructor many very good and very bad memories come up when i watch you shovel the german foldable shovel...
Oh, and btw, its a perfect tool to break locks open on your locker. You only need an old standard NATO ballistic helmet as a hammer.
CS shovel needs a plastic handle like that bat they sell.
Triple A content; awesome ass always
Chiming in before I watch the video...I bought the Cold Steel tactical shovel on a whim because...well, I forgot. It serves me well as a backup shovel (tactical) behind the rear seat of my truck. Just in case.
Here for the deadpan.
Keep it up.
I love you :)
Since you made a video about classic folders, how about classic/traditional and budget fixed knives ? Like Ahti, Mora, and Marttiini, (Yes I know I am a Scandi-tard come fite me!). That is if you have those or can even get them in the US for cheap.
Damn, You tube killed you off my feed until now. That is some Missouri level baby back bullsheit! I dig what you are laying down in this vid!
I take it the "pig blood" referred to Spetsnaz training. "Inside Spetsnaz" by William Burgess.
The "E" tool of death........
Yes but.... which one can move more dirt per shovelful?
Thanks for the laughs, I needed them. You just got a sub.
"how do I stay alpha...with an intestinal parasite" 😂😂😂
I keep one of the green Nato E-tools in the trunk of my car. It's a great tool.
100 percent real fact. Lynn Thompson designed this to remove poops from his feline friend mister mittens's litterbox
Sounds true to me.
Oh yeah! I own the CS pig blood one:) Probably gonna grab the NATO one too, just cause why not:)
Can’t have too many shovels!
How have I not know about this channel? When I begin my presidential bid I'm gonna use this guy as my speech writer. He makes tactical pooping sound dangerous.
I have and will again, use an ax on roots...I have even used a chainsaw on roots...you just have to have a dedicated tool for such things.
I use one of my 3 cold steel shovels for gardening all the time. Nice stout tool.
If only we had those a camp green lake.
Knife < Shovel
Digging with my Glock shovel
Never gonna finish
Wife's got me workin'
Someday soon she'll set me freeee.....
What tune do these lyrics match?
@@mcsquirgle It's a takeoff of an early South Park episode, where Eric Cartman was being his usual self.
"Death Korps of Krieg Guardsman" Heavy Breathing.
Dying laughing at your hilarious monolog. Instantly subscribed
Thanks a lot. Now I'm getting recommended SHOVEL videos on my UA-cam. I don't want to watch SHOVEL videos! You made this video specifically to troll me individually. I won't be convinced otherwise.
The NATO shovel is an army issued item. It can be used while folded in an "L" under one butt cheek as a toilet seat. Some of the best craps I ever took.
Mein oller BW Klappspaten! Ich lach mich kaputt... If you want one, look for an original with the BW Teilenummer (Army inventory number). There are a lot of fakes around (MilTec etc) that are of lower quality. SPATEN FREI!!!
Shovel based content is my kink
Show "Alone" settled the issue when one-year's winner rightly attributed his survival to the Cold-Steel Shovel.
This video about tacticool shovels has been long overdue. Hahahaha. AKB!
"How do I stay Alpha with an intestinal parasite." OK, that got a sub. Oh, and this is why I went armor...mobile foxhole with no digging. :-)
Am I late to remember that the NATO shovel can be used bent at 90dg to make a heck of a digger tool, and a potential de-life-iator by mere swinging it overhead?
I dug a hole this way in a fraction of the time I was able to dig a similar hole in ye olde fashioned style of straight shovel and foot on the rim
It feels different... Plus you can seat on it. Handle on the ground, cheeks on the spoon
You are welcome
You can always for the the most part anyways use an auger bit to drill a hole you can shit in. Helps with making Dakota fire hole as well.
Thumbs up for the A-Sicks!!! Great video dude
Tactical Gardening. It’s definitely a thing.
I like the homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey
after my time as a grunt I can count on three things... my poncho liner aka whoopy being warm my e tool digging / being an axe on something it shouldn't have be used on... and my lt be lost I'd be 3 for 3
Gave a thumbs up on this one but only because you said you only have two shovels and don't want more, so ergo no more shovel videos. Don't take this as a thumbs up for more shovels please.
Ok one more vid. You need to sharpen that surplus one on the worksharp. We all have one of those and most would probably like to know how it performs with a wicked edge.
Ahhhhh yes the old Which Tactical Shovel should I carry for "bushcraft" type tasks while Glamping debate! I can't tell you the hours I've lost arguing this very topic around the water cooler. Even asked Bill HARSEY one time must've been a bad connection or his internet is out haven't heard anything from him since.....
Pair one of thoes shovels with a dollica, and you have a winning combination.. 👍👍
The truth about E tools: you'll use it once in bootcamp and then have to keep track of a hunk of metal for 4 years for no reason, taking up your already limited space.
Funny this got recommended to me ima landscaper and me cold steel sf shovel one my favorite tools. Even got back up one but not needed it just can't break.
I have some shovel recommendations if you're interested.
Cold steel and never look back! Anything that folds or locks together is garbage, period! The cold steel is the way to go!