what do you use to split / baton wood with your knife?

[Spirch]

for me I use a 4lb deadblow hammer, this one i got in 2018 (i think it's nearly time to get a replacement seeing the big crack)

I mostly use it in house during winter but occasionally outside when i see a need for it

I use it to split hard firewood when needed or create kindle / starter wood

ofcourse I got an axe when it's needed haha

 

[Arathol]

A wood baton made from small round branch.....Thats why its called batoning, not hammering.....

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[Carl_Havoc]

The aluminum can that is somehow always in my hands when I need to baton anything.

 

[Drop bear]

Another bit of wood generally.

 

[Danny Linguini]

Well, an anvil, of course.

 

[Spirch]

A wood baton made from small round branch.....Thats why its called batoning, not hammering.....

i do and have used branch when i dont have access to the deadblow hammer

i just dont like using branch when i can for two reasons, rebound and the fact that it got "large" handle

 

[GB940Rookie]

Nother piece of wood.

 

[MolokaiRider]

I enjoy the process of creating a baton out of wood, then using it.

 

[knarfeng]

Shear gut determination.

Actually, nothing. I've never needed to baton to find dry wood. In the desert southwest, finding dry wood is not an issue.

 

[eveled]

Not mine. Taken from a you tube video. Its made from a root ball of a tree. It’s a thing of beauty.

 

[Alberta Ed]

The palm of my hand. If that's not sufficient, I use an ax.

 

[LimpCroissant]

Just a wrist size piece of wood generally or whatever I can find laying around in the forest. I only baton now and again for fun though, I grew up heating my house with a wood burner and always have a hatchet around unless backpacking or something.

Batoning is nice though for doing small quick jobs inside next to the fireplace when it's pouring rain or snowing outside though.

 

[Knives&Lint]

I usually just use my Silky saw and saw the head off of my hatchet, then I can use the hatchet handle to baton with. I'm not sure how else I would be able to process wood.

 

[Veldara]

Never really needed to baton but there were a few times on trail I felt I needed to practice it so I made a wedge outta wood and used that to split smaller bits of wood. Learned that from watching a survival channel on youtube.

If I don't have the luxury of making a wedge I'd use my bear and sons western bowie which is my beater trail knife.

 

[DocJD]

for me I use a 4lb deadblow hammer, this one i got in 2018 (i think it's nearly time to get a replacement seeing the big crack)

I mostly use it in house during winter but occasionally outside when i see a need for it

I use it to split hard firewood when needed or create kindle / starter wood

ofcourse I got an axe when it's needed haha

I kinda asked this before : https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...aton-show-me-your-batons-with-knives.1918460/

 

[Spirch]

I kinda asked this before : https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...aton-show-me-your-batons-with-knives.1918460/

if you can get a "cheap" deadblow hammer to try out

the one that i get (4lb) is around 23-30$ CAD

just the fact that it doesnt bounce on hit and with the whole 4lb mass and momentum, let just say that I dont get the same experience with a branch or wood

I should do a new video ... but here is one that I did 4 years ago when i was testing the deadblow hammer with 4 different knives