survivalshovel.com

About, contact & disclosure

About this site

survivalshovel.com is an independent, reader-funded buying guide for recovery, survival, and entrenching shovels. We buy the tools ourselves, use them, and write up which ones hold and which ones bend — including saying when the cheap option is the right call. We are not a manufacturer and we do not sell shovels; we point you to where to buy the ones worth owning.

survivalshovel.com is an independent, reader-funded publisher based in Colorado, USA. We are not owned by, sponsored by, or funded by any gear manufacturer or retailer.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a shovel you think we should test? Email aaroneight@gmail.com and we'll get back to you.

Affiliate disclosure

Some of the outbound product links on this site are affiliate links — most often through the Amazon Associates Program and similar retailer programs. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you.

Commissions do not change our recommendations. We routinely recommend the lower-priced option when it is the better tool, even though it pays us less, and we tell you plainly which products to skip. Affiliate revenue keeps the testing independent of any single manufacturer.

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Prices and availability shown are illustrative and set by the retailer at the time of purchase.

See also our testing methodology and privacy policy.