Cheap Bushcraft Tool

Hey, I'm Joe, and today we're going to be testing this thing. So it's that old crappy tire. For us Canadians, we know that's Canadian Tire. And for the Americans, Canadian Tire is like a Menards-y type thing. They sell more than tires anyway. I was stockpiling with a bunch of stuff, and I saw this. And I was like, wow, this looks like a weird bush tool. So it's made by Fiskars. Fiskars makes awesome axes. They make a lot of stuff. Brush clearers. I think they may make chainsaws. They make a lot of things. Swedish brand good brand I've had things from them before they're marketing this as nothing oh a billhook saw that's what it is says Fiskars trim shoots and stems saw branches and cut vines a billhook saw and they're giving examples where it's cutting some like reeds cutting some grass sawing and then trimming a twig maybe the size of a pencil so they're sawing with the back end they're using this hook part to do the grass and uh yeah but i thought man let's go test this out if this works if this is a decent tool i can keep this maybe on my four-wheeler just to clear some brush or like it's even just a cool thing to play around with it wasn't expensive maybe 30 bucks doesn't have the price tag on it um showing you different grips you can hold it in to saw and all that stuff it did come with a nylon sheath so we're gonna get that bad boy on our belt and uh go walk around and see what we can do we'll try and build a fire with it if we can build a fire with it you know we can we can cut boughs and stuff with it too right so it's a good all-around test this is a pain in the behind to get in because i'm putting it in wrong and here i got a new ball i got this gave it to him yesterday maybe two days ago ready still a lot of snow as you can see tons of snow everywhere man so if you hear squeaking throughout the video it's just Tripper chewing on his Big red ball. Come here, buddy. Bring your ball. Good ball. So this sits a little high. Kinda wish it sat a little bit lower, but no big deal. I could probably strap it to my backpack if I really cared. It's about as long as my arm is. All right, let's go try and find some decent sized wood and find some boughs and stuff just to see what it does at different things. I'll start a fire using only this and my fire steel. Good little play around test. All right, let's go. Come on, trip. Come on, trip. Silly boy. It's gonna be nice though. It's not too cold. I do have long johns on and a toque, but I don't have to really have gloves on. So that's a plus. Okay, here is a downed cedar. This is not the cedar, this is another tree. That's why I was confused. That's the cedar there, you can tell the leaves. Remember, this is somewhat live, although not as much down here as it is up towards the top, and it's a cedar. So both will be easy things. I don't wanna try to trick anyone that cedar is a softwood already, and it might be part live. So here's a harder piece of wood on top, I'm just kind of blocking it. So I got through her. I think that because there's some extra weight up near the top, it might actually be a good chopper. Just trying to clear this stuff away. Just chopping it. Oh wow, she sinks in. Okay, Tripp. There's certainly no ax. It's taking a lot of swings. This is definitely wet. Like not dead, not dried out. So I don't know, on a piece of hardwood might be there. But again, it's not meant for this. First impressions, obviously it took quite a bit to chop through this. I don't feel overly winded, although I am breathing a little heavy. It's not comfortable in the hand. The lanyard hole kept, my finger kept going right on top of it. I will put my gloves on to remedy that next time. Yeah, it's not meant for that. But if I was on my ATV and I didn't have room for my ax, because this is flat, right? I could slide this underneath my rack on the front of my ATV. For some reason, I couldn't bring my axe. This would clear a tree across the path. Nine times out of 10, the trees that are falling across the path are gonna be live anyway. All right, let's find something else. Maybe we'll try and use a saw. We'll try to find a piece of deadwood that I can actually make the fire out of. That's really handy for that, actually. Wow, way more so than an axe. You have more surface area. Wow, that's helpful. All right, we're gonna get this one down and we'll try and saw it up a bit. It's fun to use, that's for sure. squirrel mitten they've taken spruce cones down there they have a little home down there a little chill spot at least and they take spruce cones down there and these are the shells see there's part of the top of the spruce cone there you can tell that's from red squirrel I believe chipmunk do it too but for sure red squirrel and look they have easy pickings right with all these spruce that are on the ground there again I know squirrels climb trees I I'm gonna clean up some of these boughs up here real quick make a little Work platform for myself This is not hard This is a dead spruce or balsam fir and pretty relatively thin in diameter But this is what I would be using to start the fire anyways nice easy piece So we're gonna try and saw now this is obviously just for the purpose of testing it out if this is reality I would just be hacking I would not be sawing something like this, but it's working all right It has a wide kerf on it like a Swiss Army knife saw would have just because of the thickness of the blade It's no silky, you know, no silky saw, but it's long enough where you can get a pretty good Sawing action going. Okay. Okay. So in all honesty, the only reason I would ever use this saw is to make notches in a trap or bow drill Making a buck saw something like that where you need precision notches Or even just score something all the way around and then break it, but I'm just getting covered in sap But yeah, I would anything that this saw would do I would much prefer to chop, but it's good to know good to know Now I'm sure with this amount of wood I can split it down and make a fire But I do want to try and baton that pretty heftily so none of this heftily none of this is gonna give me that I'm gonna go try and find a piece of wood that I can get down so I can Use this as a big baton, but we'll still use this for our firewood Okay, these are the two that I got one balsam fir which is solid Not very big around but much bigger around than the other ones and then this hardwood piece but to be all honest with you It does have a check in it couldn't find much But I want to saw this off just to simulate it again I saw both these pieces up and baton both of them whoo shoot okay that's not for that I'm really glad that I did that this hardwood was a completely different story than this balsam fir which is a softwood but which is normally a pain in the but to baton at least but much thicker than than the other one was you can see just how much snow drops off into here and this isn't even this is packed down compared to the rest of the bush It does stop it like it really if you look at the outside Post it really only comes in and not even a foot Could shovel it out it could have that plastic down the whole time But again haven't been back here just been back here here and there to check on it. I brought my daughter and our cousins out here. I brought my wife out here We cooked for our 19 year anniversary And we cooked up some steaks and had a nice day a nice night We didn't camp out but still for supper and stuff, okay? so again these are the small pieces I cut it to make the fire with spruce or balsam fir this is a balsam fir a bigger piece and then I've got the hardwood piece so I'm gonna play around batoning and splitting down and no please stop don't hey hey no don't throw snow at me and make some shavings get a little fire see if we can so baton this so again the top is all saw back right I anticipate breaking out the batons split that go on Trevor go so wood selection is a huge thing as always you know what I mean even in when I'm playing around doing this like I'm looking for the right type of wood and trying to make this batoning part hard see this it's all wampus goes through a knot shows that part on purpose just to make a little bit more difficult because obviously that first one was not hard at all I am gonna put a glove back on for the baton hand so there's a check through it I'm not gonna use that check just to try to make it again a little bit more it's really it's not like any it's not saying like that this is like the best blade for splitting by any means it's just that this wood is splitting fine with it and it's a big hefty blade don't get me wrong like it's a thick wedge right it looks like a scandinavian grind or flat grind with a extra bevel um yeah an extra micro bevel at the end like a v anyways you can see it's doing fine we'll try and split it like this the old uh axway so the The tip of it is not sharpened. This part here isn't, or else I'd be able to put the tip in the wood. Watch out bud. Oh, I still am able to do that. Even without it being sharpened, that's kinda cool. I'm just gonna move the camera angle. Tripper, watch out, be good. So, you saw what I just did. I basically, no Tripper, back off, back, go, go, go. Here, take this one and go. I basically put the tip right on top of the wood and just hammered it in until it split. And again, like I said, this is not sharpened. Starts here, down to there. So I assume doing something like this would work. You just got to go farther over the edge. I do have a little catcher, a little thing here I'm going to put there for my shavings. This is my Hidden Woodsman signal panel. Good for a lot of different things. Bright as the dickens. Put on your sunglasses, folks. Comes with a little bungee. Got to put that back in the old pocket, right? All right, so anyways, this is the same type of wood as this. I can just use this. It's not a big deal, but we'll split this down just to make it all legit. I put a ton of snow on my shaving sketcher there. So making shavings is going to be, seems easy enough with the sharpness of it. See that? But it's the awkwardness. It's the heft. It's lifting that up and down a bunch of times. Let's start again. So I think using the serrated part might be an option. And just doing scrapings, because I know the scrapings always catch really well. That's not turning out that great, is it? it's taking a long time for not much and we do need the shavings to start it if we're going to solely use this knife and um or whatever you want to call this this bill hook and a piece of wood and a fire stick to start it so we don't want to use any birch bark or man-made tinder or anything like that i hope you can see that i want to put the camera a little bit closer but those are decent curls i guess i'll just making them close to the handle and using it like on a 45 degree Angle isn't so bad. I thought oh man. Do you guys watch scramble those video the other day? Why are my shavings look like thick pieces of chunky wood by the hardwood the thing is now? I'm just gonna make a ton of small pieces Because well shavings probably the sketchy Fire striking with this thing. I want to need a lot of small pieces right off the hop to get it going Thankfully stuff is splitting down relatively thin before it ships out and this glove this glove helps with that too So I'm just gonna continue to make tiny tiny pieces mainly using the bin inside of the hook there Like I said, it's working out kind of good. I just hold it there. Do a little tappy tappy the wrist Look at the flick of the wrist Wrist yeah, that's actually working out decent Back up don't kick any snow onto my shavings and don't take any of my wood, bruh So what's everyone doing at home these days? days hopefully staying at home smart thing to do if you can if you're able to pretty soon I don't think that we're gonna have a choice but we won't get into that too much seems like they're gearing up for that everybody's got what they need it's a weird time man I'll tell you when I was driving and I heard on the radio friggin dum-dum say if you're a Canada if you're a Canadian abroad now is the time to come home that sounded like we're in a movie bro seriously sounded like something out of a movie i cannot believe i know it's nothing crazy i know i know it's like minimal to what our forefathers and grandparents and all these people went through but anything like this i've never heard any words like that on the radio from someone authority importance and i should be quoting importance um yeah man works really pretty well actually without having a baton just kind of hook it in there the grabs quack i got a tea i want to cook up so i want to some of these pieces a little decently decent sized I think I'm almost ready to fire so do this a couple more pieces some hardwood in there get right back to you I'm gonna have to cut this video down man I'm blabbing on blathering blather skypes what's that from 1984 to go all right I've got everything squared away got my shavings there obviously and then broken off and what I need second second stage third stage as you can see this is just not up to snuff what I I actually need but it'll be a good test what do you guys think is the best way for me to strike this up here so I don't ruin the blade too much and don't take too much off of my fire steel I thought originally maybe the sawed part the serrated part but I'm thinking maybe that that's not gonna hurt the saw that it's gonna hurt my fire steel a little bit but the only other option is here in the corner which I don't usually use for anything which would be good for rope cutting but in here is not really try that it's not giving us strong enough spark okay we're gonna have to do it this way we'll check out the damage it did after to the blade well that's about it for today you know a little foldable cup here camp smokes on messing up the lens too bad there hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and was a little bit different haven't done a video like this for a long time but like I said on that previous video I had to start doing a little bit different videos gonna start doing ten minute long shorter videos and for content wise it's hard to fit a a full story in 10 minutes for me I'm just too long-winded so we'll do some skills we'll do some product review some not even review just checking out things maybe I'll go through some of my specific gear at home in the basement and stuff like that but for people who do want to know I'll let that sit a minute for tea, I forgot my tea bag surprise surprise, I would say this is a fun tool to have in the arsenal, there's a fun little toy to play with, can be useful especially you know what this will be useful for around the house more than anything I'm sure that's exactly what they're marketing towards, you know what I mean, cleaning up your your yard especially if you don't use power tools or you can't, but that said I would not I wouldn't think twice about keeping this with me on the ATV, you know what I mean, it's small, small enough where it doesn't take up any room at all, it's lightweight you slide underneath something, like I said, might be good for like not backpacking you know I mean not really canoe camping type thing but for more of like a when you have a lot of gear and you're allowed to have some fun things to play with or whatever you can, it doesn't hurt to carry extra stuff or you just want to play around, I think I think it's worth having, I don't think that I would trust my life, I wouldn't trust my life on it, it's definitely capable, it started the fire, it chopped anything I needed to chop today, we didn't try to chop anything too big but again that's wood selection if I had an axe, it'd be a different story, but this is flat, this does not weigh as much as an axe and it doesn't take up as much as as much room, I would say get it if you like playing around with stuff like this and you're on the fence about something like this, I would say get it, it's like thirty dollars, it's not going to break the bank, Fiskars is a good brand, you know what I mean, I've had a Fiskars axe for a long time uh i think i broke a Fiskars saw before but my Fiskars axe is going strong again this is what the packaging looks like it's called a billhook saw i got it at crappy tire Canadian Tire Fiskars I think that's everything Let me know what you guys think in the comments Stay safe Like I said in my last video This is helping people come together as well It's not just doom and gloom This is helping people become more of a community That's still so very hot So let's add to that If you're in a place where you need to stay inside And you can only go to the grocery store a certain amount of times Or whatever Ask your neighbor again if they need something If you're around elderly people You can leave it on their doorstep Whatever the case may be we all need to do our part and this can obviously be fixed up and go away and we can take care of it better than other parts of the world can be kind to one another I'll see you guys very soon thank you very much for watching the video come on Trip bring your ball get your ball come all the way come on come on come on come on come on oh you're going out out