well...
I was running out of things to do with my yardkeeper and didn't have any really big wood left to split...
i just got done doing tons of trap making and whittling and stuff...





i was feeling kind of stressed though still (normally sitting outside calms me down alot, i really like spring time!!), so I decided to try some... tip first batoning?

okay I don't know what it's really called, but I saw someone doing it with an rc3, I thought it might be a way to split wood that was too long for your blade or something?
I'm not really sure why you would do it... but i did just to give my YKCG a good workout...
(my pics are terrible... I tried messsing around with the self timer for the fisrt time so... yeah.)



it actual;ly kinda tore up the handle, but not bad at all.
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then once I got it in enough, I batoned it like I normally would...





and since I started in the middle I had to do the other side...




alright... i just quit... it was kinda hard so i just batoned it regularly...
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check out the coating on the log!
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I made a little fuzzy...
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...it's not as good as pits or Brians, but i guess it's not too bad.
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ahhhhh... now i feel more relaxed.
that was fun!
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lots of boats on the water today...
i may Not live in an amzing place like vic or pit... but I like NJ.
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No never too many pics Hope your "Yard" work was enjoyable, I do enjoy sitting in front of a pile of wood and having a sharp scrapper in hand.

obvious where we're goin for the meet. get mom's permission.

"a bunch of strangers with knives and fire starters? sure, dear."

Great pics and tough test bro !!!

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Looks like fun!

You might be able to touch up the res c a bit if you heat up the damages spot with a lighter or other heat source. Be careful though!

Cool stuff EMF! Admittedly, I'm not so much a fan of spring, because here in oregon it means rain, clouds, and high winds every day from march through mid-june. I'm hyperbolizing obviously, but today was the first day we had sun in nearly two weeks (no joke). In any case, you have no idea how reassuring it is to see someone out there using their knife! With busse I can understand keeping them as safe queens (they're just so purty), but SY knives beg to be used. I've never heard of this tip-first batoning, but now that I see you demonstrate it, I'll have to try it myself.

I agree with you about the outdoors calming me down, it can be amazing. When I'm just up to my neck in school work or teenage drama (you probably know the kinds of things I'm referring to), nothing puts my mind back on track like a day in the woods with Sharp, or going up to my family's place in southern Washington. In fact, I get so relaxed that it is often hard for me to get back into the daily grind of homework afterwards.

to quote a particularly a section of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" that I particularly love:

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God," (Emerson, 18)




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nice pics EMF.i really like how the coating is wearing off your YK,looks great.

on a side note,something to think about.

i hear you guys talking about teenage stress.at the risk of sounding like your parents think this through.

in many,many ways these will be the best years of you life.the things you think are big and bad now will seem trivial when your full adults.you will look back and snicker,i promise.

also realize that you will spend many times looking back on those years with envy wishing you could relive them believe it or not so take that into consideration.how many times has someone said i wish i was young again or something to that effect.

dont take things to seriously,your only young ONCE,after that your old forever.

at the same time recognize that the things you do now will affect the rest of your life both negatively and or positively.

now i know i just lost all your respect by sounding like every other adult figure in you life but their are so many things i wish i could go back and change or wish i would've thought through before i did.i wish i had someone to tell me these things.its amazing i'm here.there are things i did when your age that still haunt me to this day.

does this make me sound like i'm going through a mid-life crisis.....lol.i hope not,i'm only 27 although in some ways i'm going on 14 and in others i'm going on 50.

sorry for jacking your post EMF,your YK looks good and used and its cool all you guys are into knives so early.i was 26 before i discovered busse kin.your way ahead of the game.

some pre-coffee thoughts here, so please excuse any incoherence that may follow:

teenage stress is very real, and should under no circumstances be minimized by adults. yes, as adults, we often find trivial the things that teenagers stress over. "who cares if sally sue wore the same dress to prom as you?" "is asking a girl out really that hard?" "there are other fish in sea... SO MANY other fish in the sea, why trip over this one?" the fact of the matter is, people learn to deal with stress by being stressed. the also learn what to stress over or not stress over by making mistakes with where they focus their energies. this is a critical part of being a teenager. yeah, many of the teenage stresses will be laughed at later, but that doesn't mean that they aren't real when they're happening.

edited to add: not everything that teenagers stress over is strictly teenage related, either. try telling a pregnant teenager, or the boy who impregnated her, that it is just a passing stressor that they'll laugh at later. real life happens to teenagers all the time, and their propensity to turn things into life or death situations (in their minds) can get really confusing really fast. i know teenagers who have dealt with life situations that i hope i never have to go through.

i never knew how far i could be pushed in a stressful situation or how i would handle it until a year ago (i'm 31). if i hadn't had the practice, who knows what would have happened? at any rate, not ragging, northern1, just adding a bit of perspective to the mix. i was a high school teacher for 4 years, so i've given this topic quite a bit of thought.

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wow, some cool thoughts here... (thanks northern1, clak and swizzle)
I don't really worry about the small stuff,(I guess you could say "typical" teenage stuff[although as swizzle pointed out there are very real life situations teens have to deal with]) so I'm normally pretty happy and calm.

it's the big things that bother me, (all is well now though) and I'm sure I'll have to deal with them throughout my whole life adult and teen years.
but it's okay, cause you learn to deal with them better.

anyways!
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mag: umm... my yard is tiny!
I don't think it would work...
we could go and destroy the riverbank though!
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coldone, yeah, I don't want to screw anything up, and it was pretty expecting, it won't effect the knife so I'll just leave it as is for now.
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thanks.

Great workout on your knife! Thank you for the pics!!!

to those who touched on teenage stress

I still have all my respect for you, don't worry. You both bring up really great advice, thank you so much! In most ways, I really agree with you. I think that so much of what others in my class argue about and get in fights about is totally pointless. It was for this reason that I'm trying to rid of my life of a friend to goes further than I'd like to into the realms of "drama". Things like clothes, petty relationships, and freaking out about quiz grades are all things that people take too seriously. Because I'm a junior now though, I have to worry about doing well on my SAT test (next weekend) and getting into a good college. I have to worry about getting a job, which is also not exactly trivial. Finally, there's this whole business of making "choices". Because I don't drink, do drugs, or drive too fast, its a kind of constant battle against the societal pressures to do all of those things. So in the end, I think you're both right: most of the "teenage" stuff is trivial, but some of the other stuff isn't.

I can't speak for the other young people here, but I visit the forums to learn. You're advice is always appreciated.

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