I saw that. They were all pissed that it jacked up their Crash Axe or whatever they were using.

Another guy broke a bottle w/ a piece of INFI and was upset that it rolled its edge.

I broke a bottle w/ the spine of my DF and left a little dent - but my DF likes the abuse... And I knew it would leave a mark...

Here you go.... I wouldn't waste too much time on it. Fired porcelain is way harder than steel, so there should be no surprise here. The rest is bickering about it.

The froe was used for more than making shakes. Back when any sawed wood was sawn by hand, craftsmen looked for less backbreaking shortcuts. Hewing axes and adzes were used to square up tree trunks. The froe split logs and branches to rough cut things like barrel staves, which were later refined with a draw knife and plane. Split dowels are actually stronger than turned dowels. They were rough shaped with a froe, and then pounded through a round hole in a steel plate—the same way you draw wire to a thinner gauge. Back in the day, labor was cheap and iron was expensive. So dowels were used to hold post and beam constructions together. They were actually called treenails. To make siding, long straight trunks were loaded into a frame called a “riving break” that held them horizontally while the craftsman split the sticks with hammer and froe.

Batoning is not abuse at all. I see this garbage on the forums all the time. Good
video. I was expecting something a little harder though.

Come on the Scrappers can take it and take it and take it !

tis coming from a guy that batons through steel bars on his spare time
lol, whats up noss <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

macgregor: how is it going ? You have been busy over here 857 posts since NOV 3 WOW !!

yeah
me and logan went crazy one night and made like 150 posts each
we were all hyped on caffine

btw: I've been meaning to swing by and ask you hows the underwater test going

Batoning is fun! And good exercise!

I hope you used the correct technique there Andy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Having looked at Sharpshooters linked article, I think I'll learn how to carve wedges for big splitting.. (and stop being so darn lazy and using the end of my Tram bolo for digging rather than making a digging stick! The notches in that poor thing these days...)

Thanks for sharing the video Brian.

You mean beat the crap out of the last few inches of the tip? Yep! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Okay, so maybe I am a bit ignorant on the subject of batoning, but I split quite a bit of wood with a Cold Steel SRK a few years ago. I had no idea anyone thought batoning was a bad idea. I just figured I had a decent knife that was suposed to be fairly tough, so I went ahead and started splitting wood. A lot of the splitting was done to make kindling for fires, but there were a few occaisions when I split some good size logs with knots in them. On some of the big pieces I beat the crap out of the tip of the SRK and it is still doing just fine. Maybe I unknowingly used an ok technique, but I don't know. Needless to say, now that I have far better knives, batoning is not even a small concern for me.