The value of the saw....

The comments re: the lack of weight, ease of packing, and efficiency of using a folding pruning saw are on the mark. My choice for a folding saw is the Zeta Pocket Saw from Tashiro Hardware website. That saw locks at any 10-degree increment from fully closed to 270-degrees open (handy for sawing joists over your head or in confined spaces of boat work). Replacing blades is a no-tools-needed process.

Besides the 210mm blade that is shown with the saw on the Tashiro site, you can use several of the Diamond-Z brand woodworking finer-toothed blades in that handle as well. Those Diamond-Z blades are available online or at some Rockler woodworking stores. A couple of the http://nokogiri.com/ blades fit in the Tashiro handle too -- M-270 and EX-240 blades -- although they are too long to fold closed.

For outdoor work, especially with wet green wood for shelters, you'd want to use the coarsest-toothed blade you can with the saw -- i.e. the 210mm shown (11 tpi) or the Diamond-Z 333mm blade (9 tpi) which is coarser-toothed but won't fold shut in the handle. I guess you could cut or grind the 333mm back to around 210mm length and close it if you really wanted to do so.

Dannyboy Leather said:
The axe, saw, and knife should be tethered together, IMO (figuratively speaking).
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I concur, with one exception. I like to supplant the axe with a decent chopper like those from Busse family -- Battle Mistress of some flavor, Nuclear Meltdown Special Forces Natural Outlaw (NMSFNO), the new Basic 11, in a pinch a Basic 9, Battle Rat, Dogfather, etc. Then pair it up with a smaller slicer-dicer knife like the Spyderco Moran Featherweights or a Murray Carter paring knife. So the triumvirate is: big chopping knife, small slicing knife, folding pruning saw.
 
Iboschi said:
Could you link that? I've never heard of that. Or outline the process. Thanks!
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Saw halfway thru the log, pick up one end and smack it on something. The log will break lengthwise. Half of the split wood will still be attached to the one you are holding. Saw half way thru the remaining piece and smack it again on something. You will have a thinner piece. Keep doing that to get to the drier center wood.
 
I've long ago gone to the small knife- folding saw combo- in winter I add a small axe

building a debris shelter or lean-to, putting up firewood, the list goes on and on- the small folding saw is definitely worth the 3-5 oz to carry- I wish my small sliding Fiskars had blades that exchanged- I'd love to have a fine blade in reserve for quartering game in the fall
 
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