>>833840It is a fad, a really unsafe one at that. It is tool abuse and when you abuse a tool it can and often does break. Breaking under such stress can shoot out bits of metal or handle which can hit you in the eye.
It is so much of a fad that manufacturers, who have been assailed with the retarded laments of bantoners who broke their knives, began to make knives with thicker blades; so to withstand the abuse of batoning.
Youtube survivalists and preppers have also spread this fad further by demonstrating this technique as a emergency survival technique and as an every day camping technique.
Short of having a car wreck, in a desert, during a snowy winter storm, while hauling a load of firewood and only having a knife with you, there's literally no reason to be batoning wood with a knife. Even woodcarvers use proper tools like gouges and froes for batoning.
Still the mediocre majority still determine what naivistic fads are, "in."
