Bush knife failure

[longbow50]

Please share your methods for batoning an 8" log in half with your SAK.

I'm curious !

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Like I stated, the skills/methods required are different. I don't batan or chop with a SAK at all. Where I live, I don't need to batan wood, though I have with a variety of the appropriate tools, just so I know how. If I lived where rain, snow and ice would force me to split wood to get to the dry core, I would have the appropriate tools to do so.

The SAK has an excellent saw that is capable of shortening a 4" limb or larger, but I don't see the need. I would use the fire to do the work for me. The less energy expended in a survival situation, the better off we are and chopping, bataning and sawing all require a lot of energy, that is better used elsewhere.

 

[Myal]

The SAK has an excellent saw that is capable of shortening a 4" limb or larger, but I don't see the need. I would use the fire to do the work for me. The less energy expended in a survival situation, the better off we are and chopping, bataning and sawing all require a lot of energy, that is better used elsewhere.

I was beginning to think I was the only one who let the fire do the work when it comes to making firewood shorter , its been my way since as far back as I can remember , but I see pictures of such neat fires with wood cut to length , it looks good but seems like a fair bit of work to me , my fires dont look pretty , with long bits hanging out and getting shovrd in as they burn off , but I dont work 1/2 so hard shortening up firewood


OTOH , I usualy camp where wet wood isnt a problem

 

[David E]

I believe the "yule log" of yesteryear was a log that was pushed into the fireplace as it burned.

Old ideas are sometimes still the best.

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[thesupersurvivalpost]

Hello friends, just stoped in. I do think David E. and Myal are talking about the best way to burn or cut wood logs. I do try to break-up the wood, with large rocks, some times if the wood is soft, i'll try to pick it up and smash it down on a lagre sharp rock edge. But if the wood is to large for me, or to hard to break, than i use a tool. But if your lost, and don't have any tools, always go the easy way. Just use the star fire, or burn in half. Just as David & Myal said, its a fast and easy idea, i have used it from time to time my self. Also i do think just as others on this page think, if you surviving till you get help, do any job you need to do the fast and easy way, at all times. By the way people, great posting on your forum. Your friend at the post Donald S.

 

[Myal]

I have to admit to being a lazy buggar , and doing it the fast n easy way most of the time , nearly all of the time actualy

I just dont see the sense in doing things the hard way .

OTOH , whenit comes to spoilin my wife , Ill go way above n beyond and do it the hard way , the propper way and all the rest of it ..

getting her into knives wasnt easy , geting her over it when she cut her self the first few times wasnt easy , and when the tip busted off the little excalibur she bought ... that was traumatic , but I reprofiled the tip , reground the blade , and its actualy a pretty serviceable little knife , for a chinese hunk os alleged 440 stainless muck anyway

Yeah , my Mrs has broke a point or two doing domestic duty , like prying leg joints apart when she couldnt find the tendons ...

 

[thesupersurvivalpost]

I have to admit to being a lazy buggar , and doing it the fast n easy way most of the time , nearly all of the time actualy

I just dont see the sense in doing things the hard way .

OTOH , whenit comes to spoilin my wife , Ill go way above n beyond and do it the hard way , the propper way and all the rest of it ..

getting her into knives wasnt easy , geting her over it when she cut her self the first few times wasnt easy , and when the tip busted off the little excalibur she bought ... that was traumatic , but I reprofiled the tip , reground the blade , and its actualy a pretty serviceable little knife , for a chinese hunk os alleged 440 stainless muck anyway

Yeah , my Mrs has broke a point or two doing domestic duty , like prying leg joints apart when she couldnt find the tendons ...

Don't feel bad my friend, i have to admit that most of the time i do it the easy way. The only two reasons for me to do it the hard way, is when im teaching people survival skills, and some times for fun. But the down side is im 47 years old, so its not as fun as it was years back. Your friend at the post, Donald S.