If you need to Baton wood to get to the dry inner stuff for a fire and you have a long piece which needs splitting....such as the main trunk of a new established tree which is still "handleable" size wise and weight wise if you have had to cut it down or even a long subsidiary limb on a bigger tree...but in my experience the limb or log need to be of a significant size for this technique to work....you can instead of battonning use a saw to cut a slit half way down the length of the log and half way across it's width and then picking the log up if you bang the log down on another tree trunk or the tree stump...this causes the wood to split along the grain from the end which has "flexed" to the saw cut and performs a perfect split of the log. Turn the log around then and bang the end which did not "flex" and the other half of the trunk will then also split away....and leaves you in short time with a very useful long bottom section of the trunk which was not cut with the saw....and the two smaller half sections which were cut and which effectively were "bounced" into splitting away from the whole trunk to give the same result as halfing a log length wise by Batonning. Now this technique definately works with a saw....but it might also work with a khukri if you were to chop a deep but shallow "V" half way down the log instead of using a saw cut....I don't see why not.

For those of you who have the Ray Mears DVD's he demonstrates this technique very well and maybe it is available as a small "bite size" attachment from U tube....I have not found it though...but it is a great "time saver" technique for accessing dry wood for a fire in a wet environment. Prticularly useful in Scandanavian conditions of snow and fir trees where you need to cut down a tree for a survival shelter and need to use some of the main limb for tinder.