Your opinion on batoning?

[Thomas Linton]

BWD* can be hazardous to your health.






*(Batooning while drunk)

Not to mention walking.

 

[Verizon.net]

ok will my knives where cheap chinese knives and a 1/3 of the size of the yor guys knivs are and its jest safer and smarter all and all to use a axe,hatchet or a knive designed for batooning

 

[MrFixIt]

Never heard it called "batooning" before...

 

[Codger_64]

Never heard it called "batooning" before...

Stick around! You'll learn to call them "knivs" too!

 

[Verizon.net]

ok will my knives where cheap chinese knives and a 1/3 of the size of the yor guys knivs are and its jest safer and smarter all and all to use a axe,hatchet or a knive designed for batooning

 

[Verizon.net]

Then either you had shitty ass knives or you where doing something very wrong indeed.

ok will my knives where cheap chinese knives and a 1/3 of the size of the yor guys knivs are and its jest safer and smarter all and all to use a axe,hatchet or a knive designed for batooning

 

[Thomas Linton]

Not representative of Wisconsinites, Ya know.

 

[Mrbladedude]

This Verizon.net character is a total troll

 

[stabman]

Well, just don't batoon cheap Chinese knivs and all will be good.

 

[n7titan]

This Verizon.net character is a total troll

I don't think so, most trolls are good about not backpedaling on their own arguments.

Batoning is stupid
Batoning will break your knifes it broke some of my knifes and i wasent doing it that hard at all

ok will my knives where cheap chinese knives and a 1/3 of the size of the yor guys knivs are and its jest safer and smarter all and all to use a axe,hatchet or a knive designed for batooning

 

[h minus]

Not into it.

 

[kamagong]

Don't do it with my knife. If it's yours, wail away.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Analysis advances. Do. Don't. Yes. No. Is. Isn't Right. Wrong.

I would never dream of using a khukuri for hard work, so your knife is safe.

 

[Woods Walker]

Odd? I never heard this topic discussed before?

[video=youtube;ninhbeRfFeI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ninhbeRfFeI[/video]

 

[Woods Walker]

I was teaching my friend how to baton wood with a SS Mora Clipper. Is he doing it right or is this totally impossible with a thin knife? Gosh, inquiring minds want to know!

 

[Greykilt]

So much emphasis on the knife very little on the baton.

 

[Liam Ryan]

I do it and am never surprised when a properly heat treated piece of steel doesn't break when you hit it with a chunk of wood.
If I thought there was even a small chance my knife couldn't handle that task I would be worried about making tent pegs with it, too.

 

[Hacked]

I was teaching my friend how to baton wood with a SS Mora Clipper. Is he doing it right or is this totally impossible with a thin knife? Gosh, inquiring minds want to know!

Looks thicker than my Victorinox paring knife, should be fine. Bet it flies through those rounds with that thick wedge shape

 

[pathwinder14]

Batoning should only be used as a last resort. Tomahawks, hatchets, axes, mauls, and saws are for processing wood. Ideally your knife should only be used in making feather sticks if needed.

If I have to baton (to get to dry wood for example) I start at the side of the log. I never try to baton straight through the center diameter. I have broken a knife that way. By batoning through the sides you turn the round log into a long octagonal/faceted log....like a rolling pin with flat spots. Keep it up and you will get to the center dry parts.

 

[saxon]

And make sure that you never use a hammer for anything but driving and pulling nails, cuz everything else will scare the hammer.