Does a hatchet have much practical use in a SHTF pack or is it

>>30998398
How else are you going to chop wood?

Yes and no. They are a good tool to have, but are a little more limited than a long handled axe.

>>30998421
A large strong knife and another piece of wood.

>>30998398
Not sure about them. A knife is quicker, a sword has more reach, but what the fuck....if you want one, get it. Lord knows, they might be illegal once Hillary gets elected.

In SHTF you can use them to construct mouse holes and murder holes. That's pretty useful in and of itself.

>>30998449
Have to agree, a long handle axe is better.

When I was a kid my dad would go off into Appalachia for.months on end just with what he could carry. He took an axe, not a hatchet.

SHTF is such a fucking useless fantasy, I'm surprised people still talk about it while Zombie survival was ridiculed and abandoned in early 2010.

Does a hatchet have much practical use in shtf? I don't know, hatchets have been used as survival tools for 1000 years, and flint axe heads were such a hot commodity they were used as currency in Scandinavia. do you have a need to chop, butcher, or split things? well if shtf means you're living in the forest forever like it's DayZ, probably. if your waging low intensity guerilla warfare against the government? maybe not so much. if you're walking out of your city because of flooding or natural disaster? no. you're running from the niggers that have organized into professional cuck gangs and are coming to your neighborhood on the north side of Witchita Falls TX to steal your laptop and make fun of your waifu? that sounds like a no.

>>30998594
Your dad sounds like a crazy motherfucker.

>>30998517
>I hate my knives the post
>I like breaking my knives the post
>I like using a lot of energy and time on otherwise easy projects the post

>>30998692
>I use cheap shit knives the post
>I can't make do with what I have the post

>>30998715
>implying
I do survival camping as often as I can, sometimes with nice knives, sometimes without. The benefits from the addition of an axe or hatchet far outweigh the bad.

in my limited experience the hatchet fills the awkward middle ground between a knife and an axe. if you can have both, do that. if you can't, the hatchet can fulfill the role.

>>30998421
>>30998517
>>30998692
>2012
>batoning
>not using a froe

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>>30998817
If you use the right knife, chance of it breaking isn't a factor. I have had more axe handles break than knives.

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>>30998421
A woodsplitting maul

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>>30998421

With a hammer?

>>30998398
A 3/4-axe is a really handy thing to have, hatchets are ok but they lack the thump to get through serious timber

>>30998449
Yea i agree on my last camping trip i spent 20 minutes trying to split a log with a hatchet, didnt have enough leverage or weight

>>30998449
>>30998398
Wouldnt an E-tool be better in a SHTF situation, I understand a hatchet being to small for the types of duties OP is aiming for.

>>30998626
>north side of Wichita Falls
>not already full of niggers