Woodcrafting is mostly advice aimed at the lumberjack or forest ranger, rather than the ultra light wilderness hiker.

Axe, froe and hand maul, beetle, wedge, brush hook, adze, two man crosscut saws, (AKA misery whips, don’t drag your feet ), hand brush hook, Pulaski’s, sawbucks and bucksaws, draw knife and shaving horse, barking spud and crooked knife, and yes, a smaller personal knife was carried.

This was written in the days when old fashioned logging was a pragmatic business. Set up a camp, build a bunkhouse and tool shed and camp kitchen, make everything you can from the materials at hand. You had to, because labor was still cheaper than materials. Buying stuff cost the company money. The right tool for the job, without unnecessary ornature, was the rule.

I understand this way of thinking because I used to make my living in construction. By my day the work was high tech compared to working in the woods in the 1940’s. But the hard line pragmatism was identical.