VandymanG wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:19 amLiving in Western Washington we have periods where we have no fire bans due to the wet weather. Only problem with that is the wood is usually pretty saturated with water by then. I was up near Mowich Lake on Sunday in Mount Rainier National Park. Had a beautiful fire to watch the sunset before heading back down.
I usually have a tomahawk on me when I’m in the woods. Either that or an old roofing axe made of 01 steel that I hand ground with sandpaper into a bearded axe. So I don’t need to baton. Plus the tomahawk and bearded axe are much quicker at splitting wood. I do turn to a knife when I feather a stick, AEB-L mule.
I run a small tomahawk too. Very light weight, good swinging leverage. Excellent for camp style splitting work. I mostly used it for on willows to make snowshoe hare snare sets. My adventures in batoning are contained to the AEB-L mule, and mule related fun.
Thanks for posting up.