Nutnfancy falls 'tree' with CS Recon Scout

The most efficient way to fall your vertical deadwood on your backpack trips will be with a backpack saw like the "Sawvivor." However sometimes, like on day hikes, I just have a 7" survival knife like the Cold Steel Recon Scout. This video demonstrates that even this blade can fall a tree with a proper notching technique (and assuming that you don't have something better for the task). With its 1/4" thick, full flat ground blade, and re-profiling (20º angle), good heft, great handle, and general toughness, the Recon Scout or the Trailmaster are excellent outdoor blades.
SAFETY NOTE: Using sharp and deadly tools in the wilderness can be dangerous. One missed swing and you could cut an artery up there. These videos will show imperative common sense safety measures to keep YOU safe from your own blades (and falling timber). Accidentally cutting YOURSELF is the biggest danger you will face in the woods.

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• survival
• advice
• firemaking
• combat
• blades
• falling
• wood
• cold
• steel
• skills
• sawvivor
• scrap
• chopping
• safety
• axe
• use

[macbookusrkid]

what's better for survival/camping, the recon scout or rat 7?

[nutnfancy]

Hello dude, sorry for the delay. Both are excellent but the Recon Scout has more heft and does chop better as shown. Get both!

[13u12sT]

the vid. was to demonstrate the cs recon though, you idiot

[Original50]

This post has some dust on it, but what I have to say is maybe worth taking into consideration. Gear-review here, gear review there, explaination of TECHNIQUE is probaly more valuable and some of what you say in this post is good. solid common.sense. Nutnfancy, dare you deem yourself qualified to quide gear-users more in their style and not just their kit load-out?  You have credability...

[krazy4knives]

I was wanting a good tough wilderness knife. It's between the Rtak 2, recon scout, and Becker bk2. Which do you prefer most nutn

[wcoy79]

LMFAO @ 3:20 "Everyone is too big of a Puss to come with me today, so I'm alone". This guy rocks!

[SkylarrL]

@justyoustupid maybe not entirely necessary, but he'll definitely have the exact knife for the job he wants. personally, i'd go with a small fixed blade, a multitool, sawvivor, and a large fixed blade, and that's enough for me.

[louisianascountryboy]

ide love to come wit ya..... got charged 1500 for cutting down trees tht we thought was state land...... it wasnt...... could of bought alot of knives wit tht...... cut about 20 pines wit a san mai ghurka kukri

[justyoustupid]

do you you think that with your system of saw, large blade, med-sma blade, and folder a large blade(i.e. over 6 inches) is necessary?

[veinerschnitsel225]

could you cut madrone with that knife

[evildude109]

@pnfcrac Eh, different strokes for different folks, I guess. Personally, I just take a small saw every time.

[pnfcrac]

@evildude109 Then would it not be better to take a mini axe like the Fiskars x5 camp axe. That is assuming that the chopping is really that important. Then perhaps a puukko around the neck. Both together cost £50 over here. Cheaper and a more well rounded set of sharps.