Going crazy with my little folder (calculated crazy)

[dogstar]

What if all you had was a pocket knife? Here is some food for thought:

[video=youtube;xyFYZOWPYBg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyFYZOWPYBg[/video]

Bottom line: I didn't hurt my favorite knife. And yes, if I had the slightest inkling I needed to do this, I'd bring a hatchet.

 

[jackknife]

Good effort. It's surprising what can be accomplished with a small knife and a measure of patient perseverance. A long time ago in the boy scouts we learned how to take down saplings with a boy scout knife by carving a V groove all the way around the trunk and then grabbing the sapling as high as we could reach and bending it until it snapped off where the V groove was. It's all about how deep you make the V groove.

Yes, it's always easier with a hatchet or machete or very large knife. But how often do you walk around with a hatchet in a back pocket. Knowinghow to maximize what you have on you is way more important that the tools. I seriously doubt the North American Indians with their stone tools were splitting and battening wood for fires. But they were doing very well for themselves when the pilgrims got here.

 

[dogstar]

I seriously doubt the North American Indians with their stone tools were splitting and battening wood for fires. But they were doing very well for themselves when the pilgrims got here.

Yes, when I was doing this, I was thinking, there's got to be a better way! They probably carried enough materials with them to start a fire under any conditions.

Are you going to order that Peasant knife yet?

 

[Sonnydaze]

I can't help you with fire-starting, but I have to give you credit for all of your labor.
You sound like a very determined guy, so I'm sure you will have all of this solved pretty soon.
I was glad to see what that Svord Peasant could do...so thanks for the video.
...and after all of that, the blade still had a very nice edge.
:thumbup: