Idiots batoning knives

[Scummy McExpletive]

So please cut me slack but I just don't see the point. I've been using knives for 45 years. I grew up with family that lived in the woods lived on farms and spent time in the military. But I just don't see why batoning is the be all end all for the toughness of a knife. I understand you have to do what you do in an emergency situation but it's just everybody that ever taught me about blades had enough common sense to not beat on a fixed blade let alone a folder. And then tried to use it as some type of durability test. I'm a rotating equipment field mechanic I've done horrible things to knives I know better than to do. I've driven them through oil filters with the hammer hell I've even cut ridges out of cylinders with them. But this just strikes me as stupid.

 

[Scummy McExpletive]

I don't know maybe I just grew up with a generation that understood the concept of the right tool for the right job. Or that you could improvise that tool if you had to. I mean it's not that damn hard to make a wedge and find something that doesn't have an edge to beat it through a piece of wood.

 

[AntDog]

So please cut me slack but I just don't see the point. I've been using knives for 45 years. I grew up with family that lived in the woods lived on farms and spent time in the military. But I just don't see why batoning is the be all end all for the toughness of a knife. I understand you have to do what you do in an emergency situation but it's just everybody that ever taught me about blades had enough common sense to not beat on a fixed blade let alone a folder. And then tried to use it as some type of durability test. I'm a rotating equipment field mechanic I've done horrible things to knives I know better than to do. I've driven them through oil filters with the hammer hell I've even cut ridges out of cylinders with them. But this just strikes me as stupid.

So you do stupid stuff with knives, but batoning is where you draw the by God line?

 

[Scummy McExpletive]

So you do stupid stuff with knives, but batoning is where you draw the by God line?

I've done stupid stuff with knives because I had no other choice. But I'd be willing to bet not a single damn one of you has ever been stuck in a literal survival situation where you had to try to baton a folder through a 10-in tree. So yeah you got a problem kiss my ass

 

[Scummy McExpletive]

I've done stupid stuff with knives because I had no other choice. But I'd be willing to bet not a single damn one of you has ever been stuck in a literal survival situation where you had to try to baton a folder through a 10-in tree. So yeah you got a problem kiss my ass

Just give me one example where batoning saved your life literally.

 

[AntDog]

I've done stupid stuff with knives because I had no other choice. But I'd be willing to bet not a single damn one of you has ever been stuck in a literal survival situation where you had to try to baton a folder through a 10-in tree. So yeah you got a problem kiss my ass

 

[Scummy McExpletive]

oh that's cute.

 

[jmh33]

 

[Blues]

90+% of our members are not discussing how they survived a trek through trackless wilderness by relying upon batoning wood with their folders.

If you're looking for an argument, you're going to find yourself talking to yourself in short order.

 

[MolokaiRider]

The right kind of fixed blade makes short work batoning wood.

I like to do this to make smaller splits of wood to make them all about the same size.

This helps make the fire burn more evenly and cooking more consistent.

Also, batoning through smaller limbs perpendicular is more precise than swinging an axe or hatchet. It helps in making longer limbs evenly cut. This is useful for all sorts of things, including whittling to make tools.