What is size is your primary fixed blade for the woods?

jimh0220 said:
I'd think twice about replacing the Gerber. I ground off the hump @ the tip, and the knife was much more useful. I't's been a great knife for me, and the grip can't be beat! Just my .02. I like the whole package!

Jim
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It really IS a good setup. I like the hump just the way it is, gives my thumb a nice resting spot when using the choil. I'll keep everyone posted when the new Beckers come out. Cheers
 
quattromori said:
My primary fixed blade is between 3" and 4" (lately more 3" than 4").
I don't carry a larger knife, I prefer an axe or a folding saw for processing wood. As a sidenote, I have seen quite a lot of wood processing done with small blades (less than 4").
But again, it's all a matter of taste and personal preference.
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+1.

Same here. 3" fixed blade and a folding saw FTW.
 
Just under 4", a Fallkniven F1.

For me it works. I can process firewood with it if I have to,carve, make shelter poles, clean fish and game, etc.

Colder months I add a hatchet.

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Izula II with a monster 2 1/2" edge! :D I've found what you have in that anything bigger is absolutely useless. A chopper teamed with a small fixed blade or a pocket knife accomplishes everything.
 
My thoughts as well. Chopper + a knife with a blade 6" or less (usually 3-5") for me.
 
My Chopper is a 12" custom by Darrin Sanders. My secondary is either a small KaBar fighter or a ESSE-3. This is for 3+ days. For a weekender, probably my CS Recon Scout and my ESEE-3.
 
Trail Master sized.
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I have a polaris hawk I really like, but if I gotta choose one I can't leave sans bowie. SAK knife is a must, and whatever other folder is in my pocket rotation. ATM I don't have a dedicated whittlin' slipjoint, and the mid sized is usually one that doesn't see much use so I have been slipping a Black Rock Hunter in my pack just in case, though a pendleton or outdoorsman lite might take it's place.
 
Fallkniven TK2, 4".

BUT..., just bought an A1 and that's 6.3".

Think the TK2 is the more all rounder and the A1 more the beast (to me anyway, I'm not a BIG Chopper fan) as I regularly use a GB Small Forest Axe.
 
It looks like most people like a smaller blade 3-4inches as their primary. I still can't decide what to do. I think buying an izula is the best option and just carry 3 blades.
 
My woods carry is a 4 inch sheath knife in addition to whatever pocket knife I have on me. If I have to deal with wood, that's what folding saws are for. Using the right technique, you can split wood for a fire easier than chopping or batoning, by just sawing halfway through, and banging it on the ground. It will split along the grain.

Carl.
 
If I could only have one, it'd be a big one. If I could have as many as I wanted it'd be a big/small combo. :)
 
I'm probably not telling you anything new but, if you wrap the lanyard around the back of your hand and over your thumb, you can increase the chopping power of a smaller blade (or any blade for that matter)--and spare your hand and wrist a lot of blunt force trauma. My ESEE-4 is a sweet little chopper.
 
I live in a remote area.When ever I go into the woods I carry a big knife 8 plus inches and my 4 inch blade M.U.S.K made by Scott Gossman. Generally it is my big boar tusker or one of my Siegle's or my Horton Camp blood or my Trace Rinaldi custom designed survival bowie.I have hunted for 32 years and have totally processed a deer with one of my big knives. In my day pack I do have a folding saw and I am going to pick up a medium sized axe.When it is a blizzard you may have to build a shelter and a wood platform to get a fire going.Too many stories of people dyeing because they were not prepared.My wife gets P.Oed that I carry my pack every time I go to the woods saying you know where your stand is your carrying too much. I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I also pack either my 44 mag or 454 Casull with me also.
 
I'm with dayhiker, just in my case F1 goes with Gransfors Bruks hatchet instead of Wetterlings
 
Not much woods to get to here but these might cover it. Plus the HD/slicer folder combo I usually have in my pocket.

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Insaneinmate said:
I Carry my ESEE 5 and a folder. 4-5 inches is all that is needed.:jerkit: No pun intended.
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I guess the subsistence farmers who clear tracts of land for their plots, built their nipa huts with the barest minimum of tools, and survived with very few resources, in the mountains of the Philippines, and who have been using machetes all these years, don't know much about knife use. ;)

BTW, building shelter in the mountains here involves a lot of bamboo processing.
 
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