>>2439737yeah only an idiot would baton wood outside of an emergency survival situation.
why would you ever risk breaking your knife, just to save a little bit of effort and time carving a splitting wedge?
batonning was never talked about until tik tok youtube and instagram existed. its just a trend "survival" channels use to get views in between their product shilling videos.
the batonning trend began with the "lumbersexual" fashion trend of the 2015's and youtube channels like wranglerstar and the likes.
>>2464517there's no excuse to risk breaking your knife to baton a piece of wood outside of extremely niche scenarios. i have batonned wood twice in 20 years of mountaineering.
here is an example of how to properly split wood without an axe or hatchet. there are other methods as well, depending on what is naturally available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghs5mtbKP_geveryone knows that axes and hatchets are better for splitting than a knife, but saws are as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LkpFKneIeM says a lot that i had to slog through hundreds of batonny chop chop clickbait videos like picrel to find any sort of video of someone showing these survival skills without shilling a product to consume. there's more ways to split wood without an axe/hatchet that aren't batonning, but of course the videos teaching these skills are buried under 5000 pages of sponsored videos about baton chop chop with ads enabled.