Comments on: Annihilator: a multifunction demolition tool

By: billstewart

billstewart — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:58:00 +0000

Mira Grant sleeps with a machete under her bed. She thinks you should too. Rise up while you still can!

By: billstewart

billstewart — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:55:00 +0000

When I bottle home-brew, the bottle capper doesn’t do twist-offs, so you do need an opener.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Good advice to science fiction writers says never to destroy the planet early in your book if you might need it later, or even need it in a sequel. On the other hand, if you’re careful, you can get away with it.

By: taintofevil

taintofevil — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:36:00 +0000

Please don’t use the table edge.

By: BonaNaCroin

BonaNaCroin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Best.

Dad.

Ever!

By: Little John

Little John — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Only for the first few moments.

By: Rickenbacker4001

Rickenbacker4001 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:41:00 +0000

This will be perfect for my 8 year old daughter. She just started on her halberd skills. Thrust, pull back, slice. Your welcome sweetie….

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:16:00 +0000

I was looking at one of these the other day. It doesn’t give me a good feeling. I could see that Y shape vibrating like hell and giving some odd striking. I’ll stick with my 36″ bostich (which I lovingly call “Steely Moses” for it’s resemblance to a shepherd’s crook) and my faithful estwing hammer.

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:08:00 +0000

“This sword here at my side don’t act the way it should, Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like it’s slave….”

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:04:00 +0000

Science fiction authors destroy entire worlds before breakfast…

By: eldritch

eldritch — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:52:00 +0000

From the standpoint of zombie survival, seriously guys, just get hatchets. Cheap, available anywhere, combine blunt and edged, and even decent for throwing. If you favor two-handed weapons, get a splitting maul instead (although they are harder to find). Or better still, get both.

By: eldritch

eldritch — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:50:00 +0000

So basically what you’re saying is this is approximately as useful as a butter knife, table edge, or wall?

Because that’s all you really need to open a beer bottle if you just know the right technique.

By: eldritch

eldritch — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:48:00 +0000

Or, ya know, just put a buffer material between your hand and the cap? A shirt edge works well in a pinch, only starts to wear through with repeated usage in the exact same spot. A napkin, a rag, a thin disc of rubber, whatever works to give you the extra grip and better torque.

By: zarray

zarray — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:41:00 +0000

Drinking delicious Jarritos, officer.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:18:00 +0000

Aren’t you thinking of the Amohelinator?

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:11:00 +0000

Print, attach to character sheet, have the most badass cleric anybody has ever seen.

By: icrow

icrow — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Saw this at the big North Island A&P show, and it is awesome. Splits knotty logs, digs holes through rocks, tree roots, masonry walls, etc. — they were using them after the Christchurch earthquake to get through the rubble.
http://www.theslammer.co.nz/

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:28:00 +0000

So you can beat down a house and a zombie without spilling your beer? How very American of you.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:26:00 +0000

The Gerber is lightweight copy Chinese copy of the American made Woodsman’s Pal. If they are ripping off American patents, there will be blowback from customers, who are already unimpressed.

http://youtu.be/BanjgErJpPA

By: Scott Smith

Scott Smith — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:51:00 +0000

But does it have an elbow moistener?

Hmmph. I thought not.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:41:00 +0000

The name of this tool must be said in an Arnold Schwarzeneggar voice.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:10:00 +0000

Harbor Freight has some very nice fire axes that would fill the bill for zombie demolition.

http://www.harborfreight.com/2-lb-firemans-hatchet-94549.html

But on Z-Day I’ll probably have a 4 foot piece of 1″ iron pipe. Besides the quarterstaff tactics, the advantage there is the ability to dynamically fend off and keep moving without getting grabbed

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:06:00 +0000

This is what you need for the zombie apocalypse. Specifically designed with it in mind.

http://www.gerbergear.com/Apocalypse/Gear/Gator-Machete-Pro_31-000705

By: taintofevil

taintofevil — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:49:00 +0000

Yes, and thank goodness for this tool. I tried a claw hammer, pliers, several screwdrivers, a crowbar, and the FuBar and was unable to open a single beer bottle.

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Careful, the pointy bit can get stuck pretty deep in the enemy’s rotting flesh.

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:13:00 +0000

And it would never do that to its owner. Never.. Unless that were the last soul to be devoured. Then all bets are off.

By: Joe Seatter

Joe Seatter — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Can you play racquetball with it?

By: sickkid1972

sickkid1972 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Tack on Bluetooth and we’ll talk…

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:45:00 +0000

For some reason I’ve always been drawn to my mattock as the hand held weapon of choice for the coming zombie rampage.
http://www.hooverfence.com/tools/SEY-MC-5FG_lg.jpg

By: Drew Rickett

Drew Rickett — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:44:00 +0000

I have one in the trunk of my car with all of my other tools. I tried to use it to build a fence section and had to break down and get a framing hammer after the 14th time I smacked my thumb. It had no trouble dismantling the section of fence I needed to repair though. And the bottle opener is great! Because nothing’s safer than drinking and wielding a 3 pound (1.361 kg) tool of destruction, amirite?