Splitting a log with small knife

[Gusssugs]

Guess I can carry just my smaller backup knife. Cheers for the tip.

[Vot63]

Great woodsmans tip, well executed too. Thanks for the video. To the detractors: make your own videos.

[903lew]

I think I'll use this technique this weekend. Thank you!

[MrJoeyBoombotz]

One of the best bushcraft tips I've ever seen. Thanks!

[solobackpacking]

great tutorial.

ignore the two American rednecks that feel a log must be split with one of those ridiculously large and heavy knives.

[Spicymchagis]

@solobackpacking Ouch i am an American and i use a Condor bushlore.

[solobackpacking]

@Spicymchagis

I am a American too, you know what I mean.

That segment of our population that we are better off without.

[Spicymchagis]

@solobackpacking Right on

[A63NT1212]

Wow thats a pretty cool technique, I was wondering why you chopped out the wedge,

now I know. Thanks for sharing, next time I'm nice and warm in my camp, I'll have you in part to thank for making my fire that much more efficient. Peace *****'s

[teb0atoz]

Good idea. If you have a bigger log or long then make a wedge out of a stick.

Cheers

[libbiapbt]

great tip if you have a log that is only 9 inches long

[robertfroding]

Great tip! Thanks a bunch!

[theWZZA]

Really nice video. You can read about this stuff all you want but nothing like seeing it in action. Short, and to the point. I learned a lot, thanks!

[aligerous]

Nice post.

[JasonKlassenMusic]

great videos..thank you

[jgdogg441]

DUDE THAT'S AWESOME!!!

[Synergist2]

Cool tip. Thanks.

[tellrj]

Brilliant!

[BARTUCQUAKE]

AWESOME, very nice method

Congrats

[smellmyfinger87]

Very useful tips, thank you.

[chrissept21]

cool a quick tip tho if your stuck and you just cant get it to split

put your wedge in and bring the piece of wood to your ear and you can hear the wood ceacking a bit, when the sound stops continue and it will split

[Virihaure]

That's a really good tip! I like those kind of skills that recuire minimum of effort and give maximum of result. I think the use of the knife should be held to a minimum, both to prevent accidents but also to save the knife itself. It's a lot better to let the wood vedge do the job instead of the knife.

[vinegaroon1]

Yeah, I'll look for a log with a couple of nice saw-cuts on the ends like that next time I'm in the woods.

[SMB1965]

Vinegaroon1.

The log was picked up from where the forestry worker had been felling trees. It's not that hard to take a sweden saw in to woods with you. Curl it up and stash it in your cooking pot, make a simple frame by bending a branch over the fire. I took one to Sweden with me on a canoe trip this way.

Axbent. This method does work on dead and dried wood,

[Spicymchagis]

@vinegaroon1 I carry a Ultralight Saw with me and when i cut wood that's what it looks like. Maybe you should stay at home.

[vinegaroon1]

@Spicymchagis make me.

[pnfcrac]

@vinegaroon1

There are hundreds of posts of people proving how great their enormous knife is by battoning it through sawn timber. Take a look at some of their posts and make the same comment to them please. Or better still, make an intelligent contribution. Something like the need for a folding saw or a small belt axe. Or you could even post your own video of how to get firewood.

[vinegaroon1]

@pnfcrac people have been 'getting' firewood since the dawn of time. You think I don't know what a motherfucking saw is? Nobody finds chunks of sawed logs like this in the forest. I know this was staged, fool. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, what is this 'axe' you are talking about? Is it some sort of new, space-age invention?

[pnfcrac]

@vinegaroon1 In between your poor grasp of the English language and use of foul language I have lost the meaning of your reply. My point is that if he took a folding saw he could make nice chunks of sawn logs for this purpose. Thus we are comparing a large 'survival' knife to carrying a folding saw and a small sheath knife. And it can be seen that for the same weight a saw and small knife combo is better.

[vinegaroon1]

@pnfcrac So, first he should take a folding saw, then saw down a few tree-trunks, then use his knife to split that down, right? You have your head up your butt. This is staged horseshit.

[pnfcrac]

@vinegaroon1 That is exactly what I am saying. If that is all the equipment he has then it is a plausible and necessary method to get to dry firewood. A bowsaw and axe would be much better of course but he may not have them available. It seems very logical to me. If you have a better method or if you could enlighten me on how to remove my head from my butt then I would sincerely appreciate your wisdom.NB- He could use a pocket chainsaw or hacksaw blade from a pocket

[vinegaroon1]

@pnfcrac what we are talking about is finding nice, pre-cut fire logs in the woods. Since it is 2011, everyone knows of various methods to obtain wood for a fire, all of them viable. All I ever started out saying was that this looked staged, and when you get down to it, I suppose there is nothing wrong with that, though I have never found cut wood awaiting me when camping. I apologize for anything I said insulting or profane. Happy now?

[Axbent]

that only works with fresh wood, thats not dead and dried. Aka, the ones ure not allowed to take usually.

[highmountainclouds]

Wow! Never would have thought of that. Just when you think you know it all!!! Thanks for sharing your tip...ingenious!!!!

[shadyb1]

Hey thanks for posting this

[bushisacoxucker]

Thank you. Very good.

[spyroglitcher]

wow

[chifetards]

thanx did not know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jasonmartin206]

thanks for the tip!

[MichelleJonesPhotog]

That was great, I figured you'd be battoning, I like the wedge technique, less damaging to your knife :)

[guiltybystander77]

A well made knife should be able to take a pounding with no damage at all. But yeah, thats a great way to split a log much wider than your knife is long.

[mysticalwoodsman]

Nice. Thanks for the tip. Will have to remember that! :o)

[audiofreeq]

done well with that mate,not eveyone carrys an axe.

[northernpike56]

Sweet...

[bricardiff1969]

got to try that,any more video,on the way