Do you carry yard tools?

[bigsallysmom]

I saw an older gentleman purchasing a very short length shovel.  Then saw him later getting into an rv.  Digging a vehicle's wheels out when stuck, cleaning out firepit, leveling the ground under your wheels, digging poop holes -- A shovel comes in mighty handy.  Then there's a rake to clean an area where you are staying and scuffing up the ground before leaving.  When I think of using a really short shovel or rake, I think they are classified as kids size, I swear my back starts to hurt.

The down side is full sized tools are hard to store.

Do you carry yard tools? If so, what size do you carry and where?

 

[cyndi]

Both my shovel and rake are expandable and barely used, so the impact on my trashed back is miniaml

 

[highdesertranger]

you asked for it.
3 full size digging shovels.
2 short shovels
3 military folding shovels
1 full size pick
1 Estwig pick(I consider this a 3/4 pick)
2 garden picks
2 garden trowels
1 folding rake
1 garden cultivator
1 digging bar
1 gas power leaf blower/wet and dry vacuum
2 Estwig rock crack tools
1 Estwig camp ax
3 Estwig geologist picks
1 bow saw
sometimes a chainsaw
various chisels and hammers
I am sure I left some things off.
on a side note in CA you need a campfire permit(free) to have a campfire outside of a developed campground, you must have a shovel handy if you have a campfire. it is stated on the permit.
highdesertranger

 

[MrNoodly]

I have a full sized shovel I was glad to have a couple of times. I've bummed a rake (usually a collapsable one) a few times.

 

[TrainChaser]

I would carry a few tools, regular size and hand tools, but.....

HDR, WHY do you carry so much? You have a trailer, right?

 

[highdesertranger]

prospecting. highdesertranger

 

[rvpopeye]

Skuh kuh kuh kuh kuh
HDR
When I saw this thread I was waiting for your post !
More than I guessed..............I suppose if the right tool makes finding that big strike one bit easier it would be worth the storage space in "spades".............

I carry a snow shovel (I know , but don't say it) !

 

[highdesertranger]

I forgot my newest pick for metal detecting mainly. complete with rare earth magnets. highdesertranger

 

[speedhighway46]

You don't need yard tools very often, but it is handy to have them when you do. I carry a narrow broom for sweeping walkways and parking pads at campsites. I also carry a 8" narrow hard tooth rake for general site cleanup. Once a year we camp on a lake that has a large goose population. The campsites are pretty covered with goose poop; hence the need for the rake.

I have a large camper and storage is not a concern.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Axe, Shovel, Bow saw, Machete, small broom.  Sometimes a chainsaw.

 -- Spiff

 

[Txjaybird]

My ability to just step on the the bumper of my pickup and throw a leg over the tail gate went by the way side about 7ys ago.  Well I graduated to a 2step folding step stool.  Then I nearly fell backwards off of  the open tailgate so my truck bed climbing capabilities have just about ceased. 

 I still haul stuff and my 2 little friends are a  triangle headed hoe and a 3 prong cultivator,  full size.  If I ever do get to travel again I can't see leaving them behind  They are great to push loaded boxes and totes to the front of the bed & then also to drag things back out.   I think they work well in a van too.  My mom drives a 1998 Hi top Safari and I've used them to pull things to the back door.

 I have been known to relocate a plant or two so they are good for that.  When in a strange area and Queenie needs a pit stop  I always stay close to the Ranger and have at least one of the tools handy.  

Jewellann

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

I carry a rake with telescoping handle, 4' shovel, full size axe, hatchet, pruning clippers, bow and sometimes a chain saw. Usually have a cordless drill, cordless sawzall and cordless circular saw and cordless leaf blower (all milwaukee brand) with me and they all come in handy a lot more than you think they would, especially the leaf blower.

 

[highdesertranger]

hahahaha. Guy, how did you know that I have used my leaf blower to stoke a fire? highdesertranger

 

[wagoneer]

A good folding shovel and a pick, I'm a pick and shovel guy.

 

[TrainChaser]

HDR:  Okay, that sounds about right.  I'll let you keep them.

I can see other uses, too.... HDR goes to the campground host: "You know that sloping site you put me in?  It's level now.  Just thought you would like to know."

Actually, it might not hurt to keep a few tools handy.  Offer a homeowner with a weedy vegetable garden some weeding services in exchange for a parking spot?

 

[AngryVanMan]

Well, the common occurrence of heavy digging instruments for those camping out in the nation's deserts should set the average hitman's mind at ease! Not as suspicious to have a shovel in your trunk as I might first have imagined... I hope none of you are "planting" people in the desert!

That being said, this is something I've thought about too, saving space for these kinds of implements in the van/trailer. It seems like a lot of folks find them too useful to go without, which was my general thought too. I've dug too many holes with the folding mini shovel (e-tool) and that was not a pleasant experience, so I really do want a full size shovel and a mattock or pick for any digging in the future if I can find the room for it.

 

[TrainChaser]

AVM: " I hope none of you are "planting" people in the desert!"

Are you the guy from Vegas?

When I lived there, I bought a scanner so we could find out why a police helicopters landed in our residential intersection, and to see if there was any news about the nightly gunshots we heard.  We heard about dead bodies found by dove hunters on Sunrise Mtn.  There were dead bodies found by kids putting up their pup tent just outside a housing development.  There were bodies dumped in alleys.  There were bodies found in front yards in NLV.  There were bodies dumped in dumps outside town.  There were bodies sitting in cars with their brains blown out.  There were bodies in the Strip/Dntwn parking structures.  Even set on a single channel, the dispatchers' mouths were constantly going at warp speed.

Anyway, I was just wondering.  When people mention burying bodies, I always think of LV. 

 

[AngryVanMan]

Are you the guy from Vegas?

Not me, but I can definitely see that type of behavior being associated with Vegas!

:angel:

 

[ArtW]

I'd swap some 'boondocking' for a mowed lawn right about now, mine quit and I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix it
Oh wait, I'm balding already LOL

 

[travlinman and wife]

for long handle tools buy tools and handle separate and then drill two 1/4 twenty holes and when using insert handle in tool and insert bolts and use. when storing takes up less  room