UKH

Has anybody seen these badgers? I can't imagine anybody would be foolhardy enough to part with 68 of their finest sterling coins - is this guy fer real or is it just a massive wind up? Obviously mod the address by minusing the flea...
http://www.fleabay.co.uk/itm/ICE-AXE-WOOD-PICK-Survival-Rescue-TOOL-Climbin...

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

wtf is that

In reply to humptydumpty:

Its fairly special isn't it. Goes a mile and a half past gear4rocks kit... that looks positively safe compared to this!

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

I don't think we should make any rash judgements until someone's given them a thorough testing.

In reply to Pete Houghton:

Are you volunteering for the job?

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

It's a copy of an old design. If you fancied going retro, it could be as effective as a walking axe on low angle snow.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Fleabay actually redirects to eBay! That's fun

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Looks like a GCSE design tech project.

(which would actually be pretty impressive if it was)

In reply to GarethSL:

Really? All I can see is some poor material choice, some fairly horrific welding, poor workmanship pretty much all over it and a total lack of design skill... if it's a copy of some historical piece then he should be selling it as that, not trying to tell people that it's actually useful... if it really was a GCSE design tech project the teacher should be ashamed for not giving enough guidance... even if you're not a climber you'd be able to think it through logically...

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Good lord no, are you mad? The responsibility lies with the designer. Preferably on easy-ish ground with lots of cameras pointing at them.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

I don't know about you, but I don't know any 15 year olds capable of welding

Agree with you on the rest tho.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:
Awesome.
Get yourself a pair of these to go with it and you're away! :O)
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/dangerous-crampons-online?s=4

In reply to deepsoup:

Far too reliable.

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aakn_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-BlackDi...

In reply to GarethSL:
Really? I was using a lathe and milling machine when I was 16, brazing at 17, making electronic circuit boards when I was 15 - my DT project was making a head-up display for a car - I had to convince someone at pilkington glass to give me a piece of half silvered mirror out of an F-16... I'm pretty certain if I can do that lot there's going to be a kid who can weld stainless...

In reply to GarethSL:

In fact thinking about it I wanted to design a technical ice tool for my a-level project but I was told it wasn't hard enough so I made a bad suspension bike instead. Retrospectively, an Ice axe would have been exactly the right size project but my teacher was an idiot...

In reply to GarethSL:

Ha ha. That is truly magnificent! :O)

In reply to GarethSL:

One of my mates appears intent on teaching his small child to weld, probably because an 8 year old can fit into smaller spaces & work on fiddly bits of his car.

In reply to davidbeynon:

As a left-hander, my dad used to get me to do the fiddly screws in hard-to-reach places he couldn't get into...

I'm sure plenty of school kids could weld, given access to oxy-acetylene kit. It's not that hard. I made my first soldered joint at 6 years old, to make a concealed foot switch from a piece of PCB and a strip of phosphor-bronze.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Why does your link work for everyone except me, I want to see this now, but clicking just takes me to flee bay's homepage. It's like trying to peer over a high hedge!

In reply to butteredfrog:

Edit the url (replace 'fleabay' with the usual website)...

In reply to butteredfrog:

Copy and paste the link into your url thingy and change the flea to e...

In reply to beardy mike:

Got it!

That's fantastic, a modular ice axe, made by someone who has never seen an ice axe and looks to be working from a "Chinese whispers" description. If whoever made it had been shown a photo, they could have probably come up with something quite reasonable looking.

On the positive side, would be quite useful for a bit of emergency path building!

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Brilliant!! Holy (wholly) shit!!!

JW

In reply to Casa Alfredino:
Looks like it would be pish as a hookaroon as well,
Belter.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Alarm bells should be ringing when a check of the sellers other "products" shows mainly Nail files/polish etc!!!

Mental the utter drivel some people sell (and buy!) on there.

In reply to beardy mike:


I've just done that but it won't work for me. I just get what butteredfrog got at first...

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

I can't get to the page either, it's not there now.

I think this gets posted on ebay every year in the hope some know-nowt will cough up for it.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Wtf. That is all.

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Soz to all the people who can't get to it - it's ukc's anti ebay policy. Well not anti ebay, but I didn't feel like shelling out the requisite 5 quid to advertise for the geezer. It's item number 121266668499 so just cut and past that into the search box in fleabay...

In reply to Casa Alfredino:

Not the one that was on ebay this time last year, but equally ridiculous!

In reply to Casa Alfredino:


Alternatively, the folks who can't see it could try this: http://tinyurl.com/q46zhfw