I have always kept an old WW2 (the big one!) surplus entrenching tool in my break-down kit in the car. Every so often it has come in handy. Here in the Northeast, we have some interesting winters and I've used it to dig ice and snow out from around my tires to get out.
Recently, I hit a patch of black ice, and skidded nose first into a snow bank. I needed to be winched out, and it was only due to my entrenching tool that I was able to remove the snow and ice that had made its way under the lip of my front bumper, so the whole bumper didn't tear off when pulling my car backward out of the snowbank. That tool saved a lot of body damage.
Now I want an E-tool in every one of our vehicles. My wife doesn't have one in her car. Aside from old surplus ones, are there any new manufacture ones that are good quality?
How do the folding handle model ones compare to the ones with a straight shaft and folding spade?
Recently, I hit a patch of black ice, and skidded nose first into a snow bank. I needed to be winched out, and it was only due to my entrenching tool that I was able to remove the snow and ice that had made its way under the lip of my front bumper, so the whole bumper didn't tear off when pulling my car backward out of the snowbank. That tool saved a lot of body damage.
Now I want an E-tool in every one of our vehicles. My wife doesn't have one in her car. Aside from old surplus ones, are there any new manufacture ones that are good quality?
How do the folding handle model ones compare to the ones with a straight shaft and folding spade?