- Joined
- Oct 16, 2010
- Messages
- 5,902
Years of camping, hunting and canoeing and never heard of batoning until I came here. My grandfather was a professional scout master, my father and uncles eagle scouts, and my other grandfather a hard core country boy and do it yourself type and never once engaged in this activity or mentioned it. Knives were for cutting, axes and wedges were for splitting, and camp saws did the sawing. This is also why I fail to understand the 'hard use' mentality. I was taught to protect tools and only use them as intended.
Yes, it's funny what we have learned with the advent of the internet.
All kinds of techniques that we, in our "expert minds," never even knew existed.
I disagree with you that batonning through wood is not using a chopper "as intended."
You can save a lot of travel weight using such a knife in conjunction with a folding saw if you intention is to end up with split fire wood.
Or you can pack a small hatchet and use it to baton through the wood to split it like a splitting wedge.
Either way, I approach it in a fun manner, after all it is my hobby, and I personally like to practice it in a variety of ways.