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it's about ease and safety not excess testosterone or abuse
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james terrio
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it's about ease and safety not excess testosterone or abuse
Yes :thumbup:
Look, I just plain like hatchets, and tomahawks too. Who doesn't? They're fun to use! But after 30+ years of mucking around in the woods and cutting/chopping/splitting various things that needed cutting/chopping/splitting, I never reach for a hatchet or hawk first. (unless I'm in a safe comfortable place and just feel like having some fun with it
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A stout knife is much lighter to carry, far more versatile, and yes, safer. The whole point of batonning a blade is to focus cutting power exactly where it needs to go with a minimum of effort.
It's extremely unlikely to cut your damn leg or hand off when properly batonning a stout knife... many's the person who's cut themselves badly with a poorly-aimed axe/hatchet/hawk swing.
If we're talking about clearing a forest to make room for a homestead or garden plot, of course I'm gonna want a serious felling axe... or preferably, a chainsaw
But in most camping/survival/homesteading/yard chores situations, chopping and batonning with a stout knife just plain works better, with less effort and far less danger to one's self.
Yes :thumbup:
Look, I just plain like hatchets, and tomahawks too. Who doesn't? They're fun to use! But after 30+ years of mucking around in the woods and cutting/chopping/splitting various things that needed cutting/chopping/splitting, I never reach for a hatchet or hawk first. (unless I'm in a safe comfortable place and just feel like having some fun with it
)A stout knife is much lighter to carry, far more versatile, and yes, safer. The whole point of batonning a blade is to focus cutting power exactly where it needs to go with a minimum of effort.
It's extremely unlikely to cut your damn leg or hand off when properly batonning a stout knife... many's the person who's cut themselves badly with a poorly-aimed axe/hatchet/hawk swing.
If we're talking about clearing a forest to make room for a homestead or garden plot, of course I'm gonna want a serious felling axe... or preferably, a chainsaw
But in most camping/survival/homesteading/yard chores situations, chopping and batonning with a stout knife just plain works better, with less effort and far less danger to one's self.