What do you actually do with your knife?

[hermitical]

Mors Kochanskis "Northern Bushcraft".

thanks forestwalker

 

[BorderReiver]

Usually to cut my stupid dog out of a tangle with honeysuckle vines in the woods.

 

[zorro]

Opening packets of biscuits.

 

[Aristotle]

My battered, many-times-sharpened Opinel No.6 (with a DIY drop point having broken the tip in days gone by) gets used on a daily basis as a general shed and garden knife. the Mora gets used for all kinds when the Opinel isn't man enough and for cooking when camping.

The tools and/or blade on my Leatherman Crunch are also used almost daily, at work and in the house.

I've a Stanley knife(which I'm not keen on and will replace with a proper knife) in my desk which is used for opening boxes.

 

[MrEd]

Mors Kochanskis "Northern Bushcraft".

definately, in fact i really like this book, more than the readily available mearsy offerings

 

[Ex Member - Sidney Bounty]

Carving my name in a desk! can you tell I need to get out!

carving down a new axe handle to fit old axe head given to me....

 

[topknot]

Take the teabag out of cup in work , save's on carrying a spoon around.

Topknot.

 

[steven andrews]

When out camping I mainly use a knife for food prep, cutting string and whittling sticks for fun.

Today I used a Mora to prepare some Gorse and other wood for kindling for my Kelly Kettle. I usually use a Gransfors hatchet, but was impressed by the accuracy that batoning a knife offers.

 

[Siberianfury]

good idea for a thread


with my bushcrafters :
cutting branches for various purposes
splitting wood
feathering wood
carving and whittling
cleanly finishing off game
cutting all sorts of various things, string, leather, cloth ect
skinning
looking at and thinking "oOHHH shiney"

food prep knives:

dressing game
cutting up fruit & veg
preparing food

 

[hermitical]

Mors Kochanskis "Northern Bushcraft".

definately, in fact i really like this book, more than the readily available mearsy offerings

Is there a huge difference between this and Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival by Mors Kochanski?

 

[British Red]

Hmmm

Slicing carpet fouling the f6' lail cutter on the back of a John Deere
Planing down a barn door
Stripping wire
Boring a hole to put an owl box into
Chipping paint off quarry tiles

What else?

 

[maddave]

Wow!!

This week
Opening paint tin
Removing jammed ISA cable from a CD rom drive
Coppicing willow
opening cement sacks
opening bird feed sacks
Cutting banding around a pallet
opening parcels
spreading butter
cutting cheese
trimming plywood sheet
trimming perspex
scraping graffiti off a window
cutting rope
fixing a door
Tapping birch
making fire bows

Just off the top o me head

 

[HillBill]

Mine have seen various uses, they have carved, battoned, preped food, skinned game, cut cord, shaved with it, removed splinters, severed a tendon

It gets used for anything i need it for really.

 

[poddle]

Gutting Rabbits and Deer
Whipping the tails off Charlie
Making shooting sticks
Birch tapping... its here at last
Cutting a whacking great piece of pork in half
Making a stand for a magpie decoy

and of course..... showing off with (to me mates)

( just made a new one)

Dead chuffed with it too.

 

[Tye Possum]

Is there a huge difference between this and Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival by Mors Kochanski?

It's the same book but the title was changed, I think so more people would buy it that weren't in the Northern parts of the world, though that's more the area it's aimed at. Great book by the way, I have it and highly recommend it.

Answer to original question,

Opening boxes
Opening food packages
Food prep
Little whittling
Cutting paper (to check sharpness after sharpening)
Admiring

I need to get into the woods!

 

[TomBartlett]

shaving those pesky hairs on my left arm

 

[forestwalker]

Cutting moose into smaller chunks (taking the head and rear legs off, skinning, etc)
Making fuzz sticks to light the woodstoves
Cutting twigs for making a quinze
Cutting leather
Woodcarving (unless I get the carving knives out)
Cutting food when out
Splitting wood (batoning)
Etc
Etc

 

[hermitical]

It's the same book but the title was changed, I think so more people would buy it that weren't in the Northern parts of the world, though that's more the area it's aimed at. Great book by the way, I have it and highly recommend it.

thanks for the info!

 

[redandshane]

Off camping for 5 nights with Mora 2000 and Victorinox Forester so will try and keep a record and post on return

 

[MrEd]

Is there a huge difference between this and Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival by Mors Kochanski?

Northern Bushcraft was the first edition in i believe circa '87 and the title above was what it was renamed in 88 or 89, so same book just different edition

EDIT: ok question already answered sorry!