Poo Shovels / Trowels

We don't seem to have a poo shovel thread on here.

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ok, we have hit peak 'hippy getting ready for a trip' 😂

can recommend this book. quite an informative guide to shitting outdoors responsibly.

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I knew you would like this.

iPood:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-to-Summit-Pocket-Trowel/dp/B001AOM9B8/

There's some options I'd never have considered mentioned here. I think I'm a traditionalist but judging by that other thread, maybe there's more freaks in the woods than I suspected.

https://tandemtrekking.com/2015/01/22/how-to-shit-in-the-woods/

Here's some more juicy suggestions: https://nuttyhiker.com/how-to-poop-in-the-woods/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD54um8wlsI

S2S iPood is no good. :(

Now, we're talking... Deuce of Spades

http://www.thetentlab.com/Deuce/DeuceofSpadespage.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlAdANXCiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYH_J74BFd0

I have a a Deuce #2 but will be upgrading the to the bigger #3 soon. I think it was @Skülly who gave the essential tip to dig the hole at your camp spot the night before rather than wait until after your morning coffee.

Mods, please merge this with the Foffa thread

No poo shovel. Use your knife.

How very dare you, this is quality, useful content.

What's your preferred poo shovel?

Squatter, treehugger or sitter shitter?

Not that I carry a knife (they won't let me) but digging holes with it is not how I would treat it if I did carry one.

STOP, POO SHOVEL TIME!

What's your preferred poo shovel?

Husky

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One of those trowels has a bottle opener.

For the shy turd extraction?

and a serrated edge 🤢

Nice. Won't fit in the saddlebag though.

Who won't let you?

I bought a fine poo shovel for my last big trip. Only 52 grams. https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/washroom-c14/washroom-accessories-c20/backpackers-trowel-p268

But it was huge, so I gave it to a couchsurfing host (without ever using it) because I was carting far too much junk around. My strategy for the next big trip is to have a small pocket knife for best, and big cheap one to be abused. And a sharpening stone and a strop to achieve peak sharpness. I've got the strop all worked out. It's this. https://www.rockstead.jp/maintenance/ I made one and it's BRILLIANT. For travelling I'll carry the denim and drawing pins and a small bottle of polish, and make a rough single use board when necessary.

I don't have a sharpening stone yet - I'm going to get a Sharpening Lesson. So every time I dig a hole with my big knife I'll have the satisfaction of using my sharpening skilz. And if I meet anyone with a metal trowel I'll put an edge on it so they can use it to decapitate foes.

Want^

I think it was @Skülly who gave the essential tip to dig the hole at your camp spot the night before rather than wait until after your morning coffee.

I’m here all week, try the fish

I have a Deuce of Spades Aluminium trowel that weighs just 17g.
I never use it, despite its lovely purple anodising.
If you want it give me a pack of beers.

I learned to do this from FSC, a woodcraft education org I joined as a kid. We call it ‘cat-lat’, a hiking version of the lat (Latrine) being the longer term large camp solution: basically a trench, turfs preserved to replace later, trowel & pile of earth alongside on top of a tarp, screened off with 5ft guylined poles and hessian, handwashing arrangememts outside.

End-times shit.

I just shit in mole hills

Purple ano? Sounds hot.

What sort of beers?