>>110488Wacking the spine of it to split wood. Pretty much the most pants on head retarded thing I've seen bushcrafters do. If you're going to be doing fine woodwork and animal dressing you need a standard sized knife (mora, fallkniven, opinel, etc.), if you're doing rough woodwork and shelter building, you could use a 9in-15in hatchet. These two tools can do EVERYTHING you need. Yet, people want everything in one package (kbar heavy bowie, zombie tools, shovelprybarhatchetknifebottleopenerdildoflashlightcompass). So they buy a survival knife that's too large because their dick is too tiny and then they decide to fucking murder the thing in a few short months. Then, if it shatters into a million pieces (or if it bends at all) they deem it an 'inadequate' tool and decide that the manufacturer only makes worthless pieces of shit. If your splitting that much small timber, just get a reverse splitter like the one shown here @ 00:35, and use anything heavy to exert force on it.
http://vimeo.com/37360333If you MUST baton wood with a knife, I wouldn't use anything other than one with good steel, a full tang, a thick blade and a convex grind.