The Best All-in-One Adventure Tool

Camper using a cool tool in the outdoors

Looking back at all our forest service road excursions, road trips and truck camping trips, we’ve never been fully prepared for inevitable downed trees, deep holes and other fun surprises waiting for us along the dirt track.

Looking ahead to more road and camping trips, that gaping hole needs filling. We’re usually well-prepared in first-aid supplies, water and shelter, but this is about items we normally leave behind in the garden shed.

An axe. A shovel.

Because let’s face it—with how much time we spend exploring mountain roads and sleeping in off-grid wilderness destinations, eventually our luck will run out. It’s not an emergency if we’re turned around by a tree or rock that we can’t heave off the road, but it could become serious if we got stuck in mud or snow somewhere remote and were not able to get out.

Man chopping down tree that fell

Besides necessities like said axe and shovel, there are plenty of other tools that can come in handy when adventuring on and off road. Picks and mattocks can be used to dig a firepit or cathole and leverage big rocks out of the way. Rakes and hoes can help clear and smooth a place to camp. In other words, garden tools are practical for more than yard work, and out in the bush, your ingenuity and creativity will be tested and expanded.

When we head out on an adventure on four wheels now, we barely have room for the essentials. Between three small kids, all the regular camping and road tripping gear, endless snacks and a little strider bike, there’s no way we could fit the tool shed, too.

Enter Forrest Tool Company and their heavy-duty MAX® Multipurpose Toolkit, complete with every tool-head you could want out there, all in one lightweight, easy-to-stow case. This kit could be the difference between a minor inconvenience, a wasted day or worse.

Cool ax tool by Forrest Tool Co

Forrest Tool Company has been manufacturing rugged, military-grade field tools and equipment since 1993. In fact, their compact, durable Max® Multipurpose Toolkit has been standard equipment on Army Light Tactical Vehicles for over a decade.

If they’re considered useful on a tactical vehicle, they must be good enough to equip you with confidence for days—and nights—in the woods, whether you’re heading out off-roading, road tripping, camping, hunting or beyond. The eight-in-one kit is a great companion for car campers, road trippers and adventurers taking treacherous roads—and especially those who occasionally find themselves in a bind.

Throw the Max® Multipurpose Toolkit in your trunk and be ready for anything with a 34” handle, a hefty Hudson Bay ax head with striking surface and an embossed leather sheath, and several tool heads that are effortlessly attached to the handle with lock pins, including a shovel, pick, broad pick, mattock blade and combination McLeod (aka a rake-hoe) plus a fastener. Everything besides the axe and handle fits in the carrying case.

Axe with cover on it leaning against a tire

Tools should come with descriptions like rugged, strong, reliable. Forrest Tool Company delivers on these qualities, manufacturing the tools heads from tempered steel and the handle from composite polyglass. The result: a product that feels dependable, sturdy and high quality in your grip.

The entire kit fits easily in my adventure mobile—these days a van stuffed with hiking carriers, a canister of bear spray and cracker crumbs—right beside my vehicle safety kit and a blanket used for everything from picnics to unexpected shivery nights in the tent.

All the tools of the cool toolkit

The MAX® is sturdy, handy, practical, and invaluable in situations where an ax, shovel, or everything out of the tool shed could be the difference between a terrific and a not-so-great or unsafe adventure. Although both would be memorable, I know which one I’d rather participate in.

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