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Why Battoning?
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::cracking up at the broken trailmaster post::
"I've been teaching winter survival skills to a young mens group in our church where I'm a youth leader," he said...
Oh, Bertha... ::still cracking up::
Somebody should have found them a bigger log and a smaller knife.
"I've been teaching winter survival skills to a young mens group in our church where I'm a youth leader," he said...
Oh, Bertha... ::still cracking up::
Somebody should have found them a bigger log and a smaller knife.
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Thanks for posting all of those threads! Here's the Recon Scout thread to add to the list...
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=328256
I can't find the post, I think it was one of Cliff's, that observed the most common failure point for splitting wood with a knife and baton was between the wood and handle. You see that in the Recon, the khukuri and the Sypderco.
Many breaks just may be poor technique by twisting or applying pressure to the blade adding stress to this area or poor judgment "biting off more than the blade can handle by attempting to split down the center of a too large diameter that is too great a length.
I've never really needed to split wood with a knife for outdoor fires but it's a pretty handy method for making tools or starting a flat surface.
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Looks like some serious knife abuse going on there 
My Chopweiler ain't gonna be on any " I broke my knife..." thread anytime soon !
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Totally different because...um...um...
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I don't baton big stuff much.
It's nice to know I could, but it's a fair amount of effort and hard on the knife.
However, I do frequently split small kindling with a knife.
Sometimes stuff small enough I don't even need a 'baton', just pushing the blade through will do.
It's easy to start fires if you have nice dry matchstick size stuff from the middle of a branch.
It's nice to know I could, but it's a fair amount of effort and hard on the knife.
However, I do frequently split small kindling with a knife.
Sometimes stuff small enough I don't even need a 'baton', just pushing the blade through will do.
It's easy to start fires if you have nice dry matchstick size stuff from the middle of a branch.
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Ohhh I know (puts hand in the air
)If your axe breaks, your knife should still be useable
Kind regards
Mick
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Ohhh I know (puts hand in the air
If your axe breaks, your knife should still be useable
Kind regards
Mick
L.M.A.O. If you break a solid high carbon knife while battoning, there are a few reasons that are probably the cause. 1. You hit a knot, which is easily avoidable.
2. You were battoning on a rock or concrete or some other hard surface and when the log split you beat your knife edge into it.
3. You used a rock to baton
4. You were working with resenous frozen hardwoods in the winter, in which case you're a doofus for not using an axe to begin with.
Not one of these are unavoidable.
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Lots and lots and lots of them especially if used hard enough and long enough. Probably why they are made so the handles can be easily replaced...except for the all steel hatchets, then you're s.o.l. as I found long ago.
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Fireside Friend-- I freakin' love this thing.