Now I am not against multi-tools, per se... But let's say... some forms are better than others?
And they are not a new concept, clearly. I have a rosewood handled one around here somewhere from the turn of the century. No, last century. Like this one.
I first became enamored and aware of such from a Gilligan's Island episode. The Spy Gilligan episode. I had a Swiss Army knife, later, like everyone. And I like and use Leathman style multi-tools today.
But the shovel? That is also a hatchet and a saw and whatnot? That's stretching it a bit too far.
My love of multi-tools and their do every job but be a master of none was hammered in by hard experience from the get go. The Swiss Army Knife saw was sub optimal. I learned a mid sized axe was nigh useless. Get a hatchet or get a real axe, the neither fish now fowl axe shaped object could do the job of neither with any satisfaction.
And a soldier with a folding shovel? Just the regular, robust, does just the shovelling, GI shovel, was a compromise. A a real shovel would always be preferred but it's too hard to tote a real shove on your web gear AND carry a rifle. These ads for the wonder shovel that does everything makes me thing they took a sub-optimal stop-gap necessary solution and asked it to take a bridge too far. The shovel with a saw blade on the side is Arnhem Bridge, I say.
Like this Foon. I like a good spork, but this is too much.
KnifeForkSpoonBottleCanOpenerCarabiner. I think a multi-tool, too be good, has to know when to stop adding features, and that is sooner rather than later.
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