good (=cheap) fixed blade camping knife

[Sword and Shield]

For your "2x4s" (I'm no native english speaker, so I suppose these are bricks), any blunt garden tool would have had the same effect.

A 2x4 is a board, 5cm by 10cm by about 2 and a half meters. Common to use in framing a house and building.

My recommendation, for the kind of camping I do- woodland, no major chopping, as I use fallen wood- is a skinner, a SAK/Scout knife, and a small hatchet. Estwing #1, SAK Farmer and Western 66 do the job well.

 

[poussin]

Hi everyone.

Sw&Sh, thank you for the explanation.

Blackhearted, I must agree hacking is fun Noone will say the opposite !

As for the weight issue, it seems to me, reading your post, that we do not cope it the same way because apparently you practice more what I would call "statical" camping (fishing, hunting ? and returning to camp or hiking shorter distances) whereas I practice more "moving", hiking many dozens or more seldomly several hundreds of kilometers in short time, sometimes involving much climbing, in remote areas and where navigation is a main issue. That's why weigth (and freedom of movement) is an issue for me, and if I spare 500g on several pieces of equipment (pack, shelter, clothes, cutting tools, stove etc...) then I quickly have a pack which is half as heavy than at the beginning. And camp chores are just for sustaining myself at night.
In statical conditions, of course, a big knife is not a canon-ball to carry