People confuse me with the meaning of baton. What's it actually mean? All he said I could do was chop.
Place the blade edge against the tree and hit the spine of the blade (with another piece of wood). Basically you want to cut a V shape, like if you were using an axe.
A 1-foot diameter tree might be a bit optimistic for a Skyline fixed blade though. I don't know that I'd baton with a hollow-ground blade. Seems like it'd be more prone to breakage.