Alright guys, I like /out/ings as much as anyone, and get innawoods,

Meme
Batoning is a survival skill for when you don't have the right tool for the job
It's just been pushed in media and YouTube a lot for the last 10 years

I've only used it once when carving a hardwood branch into a bow, didn't use too much force and would not try to split a log with it

It's an Axes job desu

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>>932864
People are fucking morons. That's the only answer. Americans do it more because they've been subjected to bullshit youtube "survival" channels longer than anyone else online.

>>932865
>Batoning is a survival skill

Complete ignorant lie.

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for fun :^)

>>932897
It's stupid for processing firewood
But it has a place in crafting for extended survival situations.
I would only baton something that I could carve without batoning, for big projects it reduces the time and energy expended.

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>>932908
I don't think OP is referring to bushcrafting and 99% of batonning on youtube and online is for firewood. Batonning for fuel isn't a survival skill. It is a retard skill.

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I don't get it either. I only have a Mora and leatherman though so I haven't tried

Tbh most of the time I see it done on fairly small logs that you can just lean against a rock and stomp. Way easier technique and doesn't wreck your blade.

Between my bahco saw, Mora and my boot there's not any realistic situations that I couldn't gather plenty of firewood.

>>932864

I've batoned before and I honestly have no problem with it, so long as you're not being autistic with it. I've only ever used two knives for batoning, a Glock field knife, and my primary tool at the moment, the Becker BK7. Thing's a fucking beast, but it's also a huge knife that pretty much doubles as a hatchet. If I don't want to carry my hatchet on me, I will baton. I will only do this with logs that are only 5-6in diameter max. It's a good way to work with wet wood, getting to the inside to make feather sticks and what not.

I wouldn't recommend it if you're not using a reliable and large knife.

>>932899
does it mean there's not reason to add logs the size of your forearm d in the fire after the fire has been well lit?
legit asking since i'm just lurking

>>932864
Burger here, I've never seen anyone baton anything in real life. I'd never even heard of batoning until I came to /out/.

>>932918
I can't stop yelling at batoning but the second one should be called "intelligently planned camping", not survival.

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>>932918
I upgraded it.

>>932864
It's kind of like ferro rods or debris shelters; it's a good skill to have and should be practiced on occasion, but doing it exclusively is an inefficient waste of time and resources that only idiots and autists would pride themselves on.

As an American myself, I can confidently say that the grand majority of Americans are in fact either idiots or autists.

>>932905
if i remember right, this was actually an intentional stress/breakage test for that knife (vs another). i was impressed as fuark that the knife didnt snap when it had the second stump (repeatedly) thrown on it

>>932864
batoning makes no sense in a lot of different woodlands.
that said: in some places, a large knife and saw is all the cutting tool you need. can process green sapplings, or break down standing dead (wood). think low altitude pine forest with riparian zones

most people are fucking up when they baton, but with good judgement/execution in the right habitat it has a place. clearly that place is not the australian outback- just like i wouldn't try n make a swedish fire torch out in the desert. like most memes it's overused.
your cutting kit should be tuned to the wood, and therefore your biome.

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>>932918
Sometimes the smallness of 4chan blows my mind.

The rocket stove in those images is mine...

......that Dakota fire hole is also mine....

....the MS Paint pic in the Dakota fire hole is also mine....

>>932992
Doesn't matter. There's no survival situation where you need to use batonning to make fuel for a fire. You are better off making a feather stick with the knife to use with tinder to make a proper fire.

>>932905
I want one.

where 2 cop?