I ALWAYS Use This Knife Technique #survival #bushcraft

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[terrysmith]

Finally, someone on the internet knows how to use a knife.

[FlashaholicsUSA]

Nice tip. I’ll try it this weekend on my trip to the mountains. 👏🏻👏🏻

[criticalyoshi]

I learned a pretty simple trick when I was young. You take a hand and firmly grasp the stick, and then you take your other hand and do the same thing. Break the stick in half. You now have a stick.

[ahmaudarberywasaviolentkle]

In medicine, surgeons would call that "Langer lines."

[jwall]

Rember doing this with my Cub Scout pocket knife, on saplings & sumack...
Now i use my BK 2, on my propety to clear saplings... This tension method helps make it easy to chop or cut the saplings...
Good vid!

[joker]

I normally cut a large “v” notch into the “top side” where you said don’t chop, then a smaller one on the “underside”, then put the pressure on. There’s less chance of splitting. Get a clean break normally, if not you can ease the pressure off, tidy it up with a few cuts then apply pressure again. As they say, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Side note: It also leaves the top of the sapling pretty neat, which I like to do as some species of tree will be able to keep on growing, either as they were or new sprouting branches. I’m not sure which species can off the top of my head so I try to do it for all. Just in case.

[kypesandstripesoutdoors]

Awesome tip! I saw Cody Lundin teach this many years ago and have used it ever since! Quality info to pass on to others for sure! Great content!

[dabj]

I always do something similar by just pushing the knive through with a diagonal cut, it's much faster but your trick is nice to get the end to be closer to square, I'll try it next time!

[carloso.]

Accidentally learned this as a wee child in Florida while cutting palm fronds, still a very useful video for sure

[PickleJam_Jbq]

Chef here I don’t know about other people but I was taught to do this with foods that either are hard to cut, have a tough outer part, or both such as yuca which my mom taught me how to cut was by doing this rocking motion very useful

[victorzaidan]

it has a very good finish. I knew a variant that didn't look like this. it was twisting the trunk and pushing the knife in hard, but at 45° it cuts much easier, but it doesn't stay straight. It's good to know how to do both, one for speed, the other for staying straight

[Kssav]

Figured this out as a teenager in the woods. Saves a shit ton of energy

[Velcion]

Another excellent video, tons of useful information for going camping/bush craft/etc.

[dutch_and_dimes]

If you wanna know why this is effective:

Bending the Tree introduces shear force, compressing one side and tensioning the other. Since fiberous materials (such as rope or plant stem) are said to be far weaker when under tension by a load or force, the tree will be more susceptible to breaking at the center of force (similar to how snapping a twig will make it break in the middle almost every time).

When he's rocking the Knife against the grain, it introduces another shear force perpendicular to the tensioned side of the existing shear force, which compresses the outer stem, but further adds tension to the inner stem of the tree, causing the stress to overcome the material's tensile strength and break through.

Another thing to note is that the cut isn't clean because of the release in tension after he's cut the tree

[nustark]

Solid and useful information. Thank you for that🗡️

[jeremyburke]

I do that with the blade at a slight angle and it works well too. Thank you for the great video

[fenomelle]

İlk defa makul ve mantıklı bir yöntem buldum 🎉😊 🎊

[EireGenX]

Its amazing how i learnt this myself in the 1980s without the internet 😂

[Jakoshdw]

First saw this trick on Dual Survival. He used a little traditional mora neck knife. Good stuff.

[Korbino]

well, this causes tension no matter how much of the knife is touching so it creates more friction so more cutting, so this is pretty smart.