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A lone birch..

Day 2 - Part 3

Day 2 - Part 2

Day 2 - Part 1

Day 1

Really depends what your needs are, axes in the right hands being used for the right job are amazing tools. For general day to day bushcraft, I would say they aren't essential.

I can understand use of an axe for big projects, but in general day to day bushcraft, wedges & a mallet can be used very effectively to process large wood, such as your example of a thick section of trunk. In certain areas of the world an axe is certainly an essential cutting tool, but alas, the...

Even the very experienced get bitten ... a wooden mallet & wedges can split large wood efficiently without the need for an axe.

And wedges & mallets

Spent the best part of 6yrs without them though John ;-D andwe have split plenty of logs with wooden wedges and mallets in that time. One of the group did try, unsuccessfully I might add, to chop his own hand off though

I guess that really depends on how big a fire you are having, very easy to split logs without an axe btw

The way of the world unfortunately.

I run courses..no need for worthless "qualifications"

Difference being..all examination requirements for those professions you mentioned are independently adjudicated by a board of examiners. NCFE & IOL Bushcraft Quals are adjudicated by the individual provider....who make up their own course prices...there is no external independent examination...