Axe, Hatchet or Saw?

Doesn't anyone here go poop or build a fire when they go hiking or camping?

What do all of you "superknife" guys do when nature calls?

Don't you dig firepits when you build a camp fire or do you all carry those little primus stoves?

underaged!You ought to be able to make short work of the gauva branches with a Khukri.How often do you really need to cut them though?If you plan on buildinga a shelter out of them maybe a Khukri,if you might only need to cut a few then a knife would certainly be more compact.
 
underaged! said:
I'm looking to get something to take with me when I go hiking. The most I'd be cutting would be 2" guava branches.

Hatchet, big knife (BK&T), or small khukri (HI)?
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None of the above, machete would be best suited. Of your 3 mentione though probably small kuhkri, assuming it is longer then BKT knife- but machete probably easier to use over long usage over khukri, ligher to carry too
 
Any decent knife won't be significantly effected by digging, I have done it with lots of knives, you can even do it with really slim knives if you take some care. You should have a means of sharpening with you anyway, and in many cases, unless the soil is either really rooty or frozen, you can sharpen a stick and use it as a pick.

-Cliff
 
I just got a 14" Fiskars Hatchet, and I LOVE it! Its very light, so its not much of a consern in a pack.

The models they make for Gerber are prety nice with the textured rubber grips.
 
sopmodm4,

I rarely build a camp fire. I use a variety of stoves, but mainly a canister gigapeak/msr stove. I find that the stoves are stealthier, cleaner, and a lot less work than a fire. I get warmer drinking hot tea from the stove faster than I do from getting close to a fire and I make that tea a lot faster on the stove than in a hanging tea pot.

Also, I occasionally camp where for all intensive purposes there is no on-scene fuel for a fire. I do build a fire if I'm on a practice survival run. Still, I rarely need an axe for that, although a hatchet helps a lot.

My friends tell me that a camp without a fire is uncultured, but it's so much less work that they eventually come around and get a stove.

Take Care,
Jeff
 
gallowglass said:
sopmodm4,

I rarely build a camp fire. I use a variety of stoves, but mainly a canister gigapeak/msr stove. I find that the stoves are stealthier, cleaner, and a lot less work than a fire. I get warmer drinking hot tea from the stove faster than I do from getting close to a fire and I make that tea a lot faster on the stove than in a hanging tea pot.

Also, I occasionally camp where for all intensive purposes there is no on-scene fuel for a fire. I do build a fire if I'm on a practice survival run. Still, I rarely need an axe for that, although a hatchet helps a lot.

My friends tell me that a camp without a fire is uncultured, but it's so much less work that they eventually come around and get a stove.

Take Care,
Jeff
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I used to carry a an MSR stove but I started staying out longer and longer and eventually had to switch to an Esbit stove for quick cooking and campfires for prolonged warmth and cooking.

Last time I was in Oregon I stayed in the rough for 26 days out of a month! I would have had to carry several 2 liter bottles of stove fuel to make that work without building camp fires :D
 
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