>>2701080I prefer knife for batoning wood in a hot tent, which is very common here, due to being way above the arctic circle.
An axe is simply less useful and more cumbersome inside the tent.
Going outside to split wood in deep snow when it's cold as fuck is no fun.
We have a traditional /out/ knife here called finnkniv, it's pretty much the same as a leuku in Finland.
The knife is designed for chopping, but we use it for everything, batoning wood, as a bread knife and to gut fish, etc.
Use whatever is most practical for your use case, don't let your choices be dictated by some youtube persona or random larper on here.