Cutting Wrist Thick Trees Without Batoning
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- For many people who claim to be experts when it comes to what makes an ideal bushcraft knife, a key requirement is that the knife have a degree of ruggedness that allows the user to baton the knife with complete confidence that the knife will not break under such stress. While this is a great quality for a knife to have, such knives tend to be high in cost. Moreover, while heavy batoning is a useful way to split wood and take down wrist-thick trees, there are alternatives that are far more gentle on your knife. In this video I show how to take down wrist thick trees without batoning - and I even take one down with a pocket knife.
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Baton or not, the most important point is to survive.. do whatever you must do to survive..that's it..
If i only have knife in survival situation, i'll never baton and risk to break or dull the knife.. if i need to split the wood, wood wedges is way to go..
But do as you like.. it's your life..
Have you ever field tested the Canadian grohman survival knife?
It was tested by professional outdoorsmen, hunters, fishermen and military commandos and the design won an award for best survival knife design.
I've never bought one. They are expensive, the handle is weird, and the blade shape is weird. Why shell out $135 for all that when I can get something that works fine for for $30?
Heretic! 😂
I've got four sheath knives--all inexpensive Ukrainian knives. Decent high carbon, easy to sharpen. One is quite long and strong--perfect for batoning. A very fine knife! I don't carry it. I have another knife with a wide flat grind and a gorgeous bog oak handle. I use it as a kitchen knife--excellent for that. I leave it at home. My Opinel folding knife is all I need for food prep.
My short blade knife is the one that I carry in the woods. It does it all. I also have a small Ukranian Mora type knife that I like for detailed whittling. That, I carry in my leg pocket. It's not necessary, but I like it! I also carry a folding saw in my thigh pocket. It's all I need. All anyone needs.
I really like your tree felling technique! I've done it that way on occasion on small stuff--without really thinking about it. Now I see that it is worth thinking about even for bigger wood!
More people need to see this great information.
Trees are measured in diameter like conduit. That's not a 4in tree diameter tree. But point taken on your process.
The largest tree in the video was almost 4" in diameter
Have you every considered Old Hickory’s or Dexter Russell Green Rivers?
Except for the handles that come loose (I find wrapping them with paracord does the trick), they’re thin blades and I think useful for common-sense bushcraft. I’d like to see you put them through their paces.
I had a DR fish knife. Loved it - but the blade did chip once when I was being a bit rough with it. Here's a vid where I talk about that: ua-cam.com/video/uOG7J1pR4oM/v-deo.html
How do you cut it to the correct length, now that you have a 30 foot stick?
Same basic thing - stick between two trees, bend, cut and break. There's other tricks too.
Dude I would never bushcraft with you... I'd be afraid I'd break too many rules lol. Nice work!
I don't recall stating any rules. Quite the contrary - I was making the case that you don't need to do something :)
From what you said on the video you uploaded yesterday, I think that you are totally on the same page as Greg is.
@@outdoorsonthecheap Right on bro 👍
If you only got a knife in a survival situation, you should be afraid.. afraid to break your knife bc your life depends on it..😂😂
Very good information!
Thanks for watching!
@@outdoorsonthecheap I don’t always comment but I watch both your channels. I’m from north of NB and we have lots more snow but I learn so much it’s great! I love outdoors
Thanks man. Boy what a day today - we had all kinds of snow, then we got more snow, and now its pouring rain and it will all be gone tomorrow morning!
@@outdoorsonthecheap Lucky about the “snow being gone tomorrow” part. One thing about snow, I was able to see all the fox tracks going through my snares lol 🤦🏼♂️
Well said!👍
I use your method regularly but I also have no qualms about batoning through small trees. Light taps and alternating "beaver cuts" work like a charm and present very little risk tp the knife.
Just trying to bust the myth of necessity. Yes it totally works.
I don’t care for serrated blades either. Except on my hori hori garden knife which I stick in the dirt all the time to cut blackberry roots and such.
Mora knives are underrated. They’re fantastic knives regardless of their reasonable price.
I totally agree :)
Your either really passionate about Canadian Knife laws, or you not allowed to have anything larger. You are soooo anti "Batoning" it's weird. It's just another useful method, along with the others.
God bless America 🇺🇲 and my Huge Nata and , Kukri Machetes and folding blades..
You don't know anything about Canadian knife laws. God what a ridiculous comment. I can basically own all the same stuff you own if I want - I just don't find it necessary - and I see the batoning thing as nothing more than a sales pitch to market big knives - one that appears to have been very effective on you. Yes it is a useful skill - I never said that it wasn't. I'm showing another useful skill...
Canada has very few knife laws and certainly no restrictions on blade lengths. Outside of switch blades and butterfly knives there is very little we can't carry and use up here. 😉
@@tmahn4950 noticed those "Gun Laws are also getting more restrive. Now they are disarming yall and sending them to another dictatorship.
I have a genuine Nepalese kukri. I don't carry it in the woods. It's cumbersome and I don't need it. A folding saw is better.
That's cheating, you know how wood works ;P
ha ha :)
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That video is ridiculous. Thank you for the material :)
@outdoorsonthecheap nutnpanties? He's the best! Ancient Mormon technique!