I'd like to get a good stainless steel shovel that I can cook on, or use to dig if need be. Preferably the head would screw off, or fold up, and preferably light.
Anybody have any idea where to get one? Or just a good stainless shovel and I'll modify it. Probably with a wheel brace in one end, and a screw on bit for the shovel head on the other. Anybody got any other handy hints/ideas if I made my own, sorta swiss army shovel style?

small cross-bar; be handy for the date roll............if you've finished cooki'n that is.

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Hi
lots of stuff here

Perfect. I'll contact them tomorrow.
If I get some made with a screw off head, possibly a telescopic handle with wheel brace at other end(with square drive for sockets), saw on edge of blade, or screw on saw attachment , and possible fold out bog roll holder would anyone else be interested?

Spoke to Digado about getting what I want made, and unfortunately their 3 man team is flat out at this time of year just getting their other items made.
However they didn't rule it out, and I'll call them back in a week to see if anythings changed.
So the design is now, a slide in shovel head or saw with either a split pin type arrangement or a pop up button and hole. The shovel head would slide into the telescopic handle a good few inches so it will be strong, this way there'll be no threads to get dirty.
Anybody know anyone else that could get these made? I'm guessing if made well, they'd sell well in 4WD and camping stores.
Any other ideas that could be added to the design. I guess the telescopic extension could be made into a pump, but that'd make it much more expensive to produce.

KISS, keep it simple stupid

Some people do like swiss army anything though.

Stick withthe shovel for cooking or digging, forget about the other stuff.

Good point, forget the pump idea, just thought it could be a handy life saver.
I may ask them to call it K.I.S.S. the whole point is to keep it simple, the design I'd like would be two poles that slide in one another, a shovel and saw head that can both slide into the end, and the other end of the poles a bent end that can take sockets at the other end to be used as a wheel brace. Strength, quality, and simplicity would be it's main selling point.

If you get rust on your shovel you have not been using it. Steel wool and a light coating of oil is all that is needed.

Steam loco crews used to carry a cooking shovel which was kept clean bright and lightly oiled and any idiot fireman who actually shovelled coal with it was likely to get a jet of boiler water in his ear.

What about one of these?

Hi-Lift Handle-All: 4 Tools In 1 - Full-sized shovel head, sledge hammer head, axe head, pick-axe head with telescoping handle | Hi Lift Jack Company

Wow that's pretty much what I had in mind.
The pins would inhibit sliding your hands down the handle on full swing using it as an axe, mattock, or sledge hammer, might stop you wrecking it though.
I might look into getting one and making a saw connection.
Cheers for the link