Batoning Is Stupid & I'll Prove It!

Batoning Is Stupid & I'll Prove It!    • Batoning Is Stupid & I'll Prove It!  
Mike explains why batoning is stupid and then proves it by showing the viewers how to split wood that does not involve batoning your knife to death. Prepare for butthurt snowflakes, Mike lays the truth out for you! Batoning is terrible for your knife. It causes too many stresses on the blade and will warp the blade or break it. Knives are survival tools were meant for cutting and chopping, not to be an ax or hatchet or saw. Too many hunters, hikers, campers, preppers, or outdoorsmen think that batoning a knife is ok when it is not. By watching this video, viewers will learn an easy alternative to batoning that will help you split wood into firewood chunks and into kindling to build a fire. No need to abuse your knife and risk breaking an important and expensive piece of survival equipment.
Great video for survival enthusiasts, preppers, bushcraft, and woodsmen. Not so much for butthurt snowflake idiots who abuse their life-saving tools and means of survival...hobbyists need not comment, only real woodsmen know batoning is stupid!
This splitting wood with a knife thing, is UNNECESSARY. Period. You're feeding a CAMPFIRE, you are NOT splitting wood for a house fireplace or kitchen wood stove!!! Splitting wood for a fireplace or wood stove has nothing to do with being out in the woods or in a survival situation. It is MORE work to baton with your knife than it is to split with a wooden wedge, and BOTH are more work than is necessary at all! Some say too much calorie exertion making the wedge- no, not really, no more than swinging the knife to baton the log, and certainly no more than what you WILL exert if you break your knife and have to resort to bow drill or other primitive fire making- THOSE are very calorie consuming and time consuming. Breaking up branches and deadfall sticks will provide all the kindling necessary to catch bigger branches and logs on fire. Logs can be pushed into the campfire as it burns down, no splitting needed! I don't care who told you batoning was right, they were WRONG! There are NO circumstances that you can give me in favor of splitting logs with a knife that I cannot disprove easily. Try me! I'll make another video! And please don't come to me and say that they taught you batoning in the military! Common sense would have taught you to break up twigs and branches to get a fire going or shave bark off a branch to get to the dry core before needing to baton. I respect the military, but what passes for "survival training" in the military these days is laughable. Only SPECOPS gets real training anymore. Yes, I've spoken to Mike Perrin @ Esee Knives, Dan Maragni @ Ontario Knives, several people @ Randall Handmade Knives, Roman Landes who has worked for many knifemaking companies in both Europe and the United States, as well as many custom knife makers. They ALL say not to baton your knife to split wood for firewood!

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