(1532) Batoning Wood 🪵 with Knives 🔪 My Thoughts
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A viewer asked a question about my thoughts on batoning wood 🪵 with knives, and alos about axes. I'll cover hatchet selection later. This rant is about why I don't use my knife to split wood like an axe.
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Good discussion William. I thought your point about the Joker Nesmuk was spot on, and is the result of this media fad pushing knives that must chop and baton. Something similar is going on with that Flissa bushcrafter knife shown in the video. A batonable, thick blade stock, scandi, in D2 makes little practical sense. Scandis, with their tiny edge angle, are great for small wood processing, but their advantage disappears if there is too much blade behind the edge. Also, you want your Scandi in a softer carbon steel, so that thin edge will tend to roll, and easily resharpen, when the damage comes. Not in D2, that holds an edge better but inevitably tends to chip under stress. Flissa, however, knows that the current fad, largely driven by UA-cam knife channels, is for full tang, thick blade stocks for batoning, scandi bushcraft designs, and "super steels". They sell you the knife you've been trained to want, but you end up using the wrong tool for the job.
@@morte2195 exactly 👍
I agree Take the correct tool , if I am out at night I take a flashlight I might have a lighter but I'm not counting on it for light .😮🐈⬛
i like the old movies where they are lost in a cave and only have a lighter, or matches and the light it puts out in those Hollywood movies is like a campfire just got lit 😅🔥
As we say the right tool for the right job. At what point does a knife become a hatchet and then it is a terrible slicer. That bowie is too nice to baton with, thanks for the video, William.
yes, I'm not beating my Bowie. 🔪 it might take a beating, but I'm not hitting it on the spine to make little sticks. I'd do that to make a nice notch, but thats about it.
I remember the A10s flying around Lincolnshire in the eighties.
If a knife was an aircraft id say the A10 would be perfect for batoning.
i was stationed at the Bentwaters/Woodbridge bases in 1980/1981 working on the A-10's Electronic Warfare Systems.
Love it!!!!
Thank you
Batoning is fine for wood sizes no bigger than half the diameter of the knife blade. However, batoning using a few wood wedges is a smart alternative.🐯🤔
a wood wedge is the way to go. they even make some metal ones that are light and durable.
I've batoned with a folding Frost knife and a $2 plastic handled bait knife with a partial tang. Both knives proved they could take it. I've even batoned with a my Spyderco Dragonfly. It also held up well. But at the end of the day, it's a stupid way to split wood. Get a hatchet or or a boys axe and split wood properly. And yeah, you'll expend a lot less energy felling a tree with a saw. Planning to use a knife for all your camping chores isn't impressing anyone.
@KnifeChatswithTobias I agree. It's a technique that is good to know how to do, but I've never needed that technique to get a fire going or keep it going. Somehow, I figured out how to make fires without batoning my knife.
This is just something that became cool because of utube and chanels like dbk and so on. Nobody is surviving with a knife today and if you are in a situation where you need to depend on your knife for surviving and batoning than you are in deep 💩 and a knife is not going to help you.
That's true. if you are down to a knife as your only means of protection, you are in deep do do .
Here's a thought, would anyone revoke your man card if you used a little lighter fluid to get a fire started? No fuss, no muss and no damage to your perfectly good knife!😂
Don't tell Dave Canteberry, but this weekend, I used one of those "firestarter" bricks, and a Bic lighter.
Anything goes when making a fire. i have thrown gasoline ⛽️ on a lit fire besides lighter fluid. They warn you to not do that, but i rarely read the directions or follow them. 😅
Stickage! Always stickage.
The translation is awesome
thank you
oh yeah!🔪