Can you successfully post a comment about not using a knife without drawing flack?

[British Red]

I am so going to have to come and see you Hugh and have a play with your cruiser axes

You are welcome any time Steve - Especially when I have just bucked up a chuffing great pile of logs to split

 

[Paul_B]

Excuse my ignorance but why have/use a two headed axe? I'm assuming you aren't chopping a second tree with your back swing!

 

[Fallschirmwomble]

When I eat baked beans I use a spoon so I don't cut my mouth

Spoon = vital
Knife = unnecessary

In the true bushcraft way, I make myself a spoon from wood EVERY time I go out in the woods - and I don't even think of carrying a knife! Knives are for amateurs!!!

In my experience, to carve out the scoop part of a wooden spoon, using the tip of the chainsaw that I always carry everywhere with me does the job very nicely...

 

[Biker]

Spoon = vital
Knife = unnecessary

In the true bushcraft way, I make myself a spoon from wood EVERY time I go out in the woods - and I don't even think of carrying a knife! Knives are for amateurs!!!

In my experience, to carve out the scoop part of a wooden spoon, using the tip of the chainsaw that I always carry everywhere with me does the job very nicely...

Is it one of these? If so, goood choice :notworthy

 

[British Red]

Excuse my ignorance but why have/use a two headed axe? I'm assuming you aren't chopping a second tree with your back swing!

Much better balanced than a single bit, you can go twice as long without sharpening, you can have each bit ground differently - one to split, one to cut.

 

[Paul_B]

Much better balanced than a single bit, you can go twice as long without sharpening, you can have each bit ground differently - one to split, one to cut.

Aaahhh! Makes sense. Always just used single bit myself. Then used the other side as a sledgehammer to knock a post in!!!

 

[British Red]

Thats what the maul is for - it has a hardened poll to drive splitting wedges

 

[Huon]

Aaahhh! Makes sense. Always just used single bit myself. Then used the other side as a sledgehammer to knock a post in!!!

My eye! My eye!

 

[santaman2000]

Knives are very useful. BUT! they are NOT interchangable with toilet paper! I will NEVER use my knife when TP is needed.

 

[Squidders]

It depends how long you have gone without TP... it might need a knife after a few days... or even a chainsaw.

 

[Tony]

It's feasible to sue flint tools etc if the material is available, I often use flint or shells for cutting etc rather than get the knife out or if i've not got one on me.
If you're straight forward camping you probably don't need a knife or if you're going to a pre established place, you could take foods that don't need cutting or cutting open and spend longer than usual collecting firewood etc, if you needed to split it you could do so with other bits of wood, if you really needed to.

But a knife is very useful

 

[demographic]

I don't carry a knife most of the time when I'm away from work. At work I always have a Stanley knife on my toolbelt pouch.
Gardeners secateurs are sometimes better than a knife in some situations and as much as I like nice knives (I own several) I don't need one with me all the time.

I'd go as far as to say that garden secateurs are a very under rated tool on here.