>>1020295I baton all the time when I need clean cuts in green wood for bush-craft, making traps (which I never catch anything with), rough dove-tails for framing shelters
far better than hacking into the wood and hoping you get the right depth of cut
I do it sometimes as well when cutting down small trees at ground level
It always just seemed like common sense to me, but people always fuck it up
use your knife like a chisel head
would you try to chisel through a huge dead log?
clearly not, waste of time, wrong tool for the job
would you cut against the grain, rather than making a "V" like you would with an axe?
no, you would cut a V just the same way
would you hit a tempered steel tool with another steel tool?
no, idiot.
you don't hit the back of an axe-head with a hammer do you, it deforms the eye of the axe
(note that indian axes, railway axes, other axes with no eye are OK for this if you're sensible)
you baton with a knife and a mallet, a piece of wood is a mallet, a rock wraped in cloth is a shity mallet, a steel hammer is not a mallet
