Saws for the Outdoors, Bushcraft, Camping, Monkeying Around.

Hey folks, it's Joe here. I've been getting a lot of questions lately about my saws and what kind of saws I'm using and specifics about them, so I thought I'd do a video. I've got five saws here, we'll go through them and I'll let you know my thoughts on each of them. Before I get into them, I need to assemble this one. So this is my Adventure Sworn buck saw. It comes just like this, three pieces, and to put it together it's super easy. The saw blade is already connected inside there. You just gotta unfold it and put your cross piece on. put the adventure sworn logo on so you'll never be able to mix it up and put it on upside down you shouldn't be able to do that anyway but foolproof joke Joe proof so then you just slide your toggle on and you got to start twisting and you got to give her hell you got to twist this thing until you don't think you could twist anymore we're getting there you know that it's done when if you feel like you let this go it's gonna sling back the back is super hard just maybe do it once or twice more yeah that's that's done right there and then tuck it back in and the toggle just kind of rides and holds it place. We'll start with the folding saws. I'm sure you all have seen all three of these before. So my first one was a Bahco Laplander. Good saw. Pretty indestructible saw. It served me well for many years. This is actually probably my third one. I got a little orange lanyard on there because it's a green handle. My second one I've had this for, I don't know, better part of three years, probably two years, three years, is a Silky Pocketboy and she's seen some better days for sure. She's a little warped and bent. We'll go over that in a minute. And I have a green lanyard on there just to get it out of my pack the handle's red so i'm not too worried about it then the newest one is a Silky Gomboy this thing is a beast it's quite a bit bigger than the than the Silky Pocketboy and i have an orange lanyard again because it's a black handle so this is a homemade buck saw you're gonna have to use your imagination a little bit for it i made this uh probably three two or three years ago for a lesson over on Bushcraft USA and i just kept it because i think it's the best one i've done so far so basically this is the same setup as this here right so this is your cross piece your toggle this would be your toggle and it would have paracord on it so i made two notches here for the paracord to loop around this goes in the paracord and twists in and locks against the middle brace just like this here and then the blade at the bottom i put slits in because i was using a Trailblazer buck saw and it has the the black pegs at the end so i just slid the the blade in here and pulled it and it stuck but if you don't have that kind you can actually put uh key rings on it and just put it over top of it or put a piece of stick in the hole up for the for the blade and that'll stop it from pulling out too so that's it that's a good option if you don't want to buy one if you want to make it yourself or just to have a little fun making one let's take a look at the Baco Laplander first Laplander is a good saw it was my first saw it's probably the saw that everybody gets right off the hop there is it is a good saw but there's a couple things I don't like about it the thickness of the blade has positive and negative effects on it the positive is it's it's pretty durable man I can bend it but I've never really bent it too bad while I was sawing but the thickness of the blade makes it bind a little bit more in the wood it doesn't slide through as easy whereas something like the silky it's got a lot thinner blade but i've bent the crap out of the blade as you can see and it's going to break any time now so there is there is benefits to the thicker to the thicker saw a good saw it couldn't really go wrong with it next up is the silky pocket boy it's a good saw it's the first silky i got and uh it's the one that sold me on them so this is a pocket boy 170 with medium teeth you can see it has no no lock on it just kind of slides open and it opens relatively easily so it's kind of sketchy but it's been bent so much that it actually fits in the in the handle uh without coming out because it's been bent not not the greatest thing but whatever uh the handle is grippy real grippy uh the fact where if it was in the heat for a long time it'd be one of those things where it kind of got sticky the blade locks there so it doesn't fall down and then it locks back one more so you can get a different angle on it if you need but that's synonymous with my other silky as well good saw again a little flimsy a little on the flimsy side my pride and joy the old Gomboy this is my newest saw i got this is the silky Gomboy so one and a half times the size of the pocket boy see for comparison so you can see quite a difference on it there's handle to handle and it's thicker the blade is a touch thicker and i got the large teeth on this one as opposed to the medium one on this one this is a very good saw um i haven't bound it yet too much and it hasn't bent because it's a little bit thicker and because i know how to use the silkies now again grippy uh coating this one's black black rubber why i got the orange lanyard on it like i was saying uh this is the Gomboy 240 with large teeth so they're all made in japan good uh again good saw i would take this as opposed to a lot of other saws these days so all of these are good saws you could buy any one of these saws and be set um they all have different applications though right i'm not going to take my adventure storm buck saw on a backpacking trip i'm not going to take my laplander on a trip where i want to build a shelter you know what i mean a substantial shelter anyway um i wouldn't from personal experience from from using saws for a while and knowing what i like and having different ones and stuff i'm not again going to buy about a Baco Laplander it just doesn't fit the bill for me anymore it doesn't for its for what it is it doesn't cut as good as a silky bottom line In my experience, Silky Pocketboy I won't buy again it's just too small for what it is the weight difference between the Pocketboy and the Gomboy boy is insignificant and the cutting power of the Gomboy just blows the Silky Pocketboy out of the water so I think I'm set on folding saws now right when this, when this Silky Gomboy boy goes I'm going to get another one and the thing about Silkies too is like you might as well just buy a whole new saw because the replacement blade is like five dollars less than the whole saw so I'm sure I'm exaggerating a little bit but really probably just time to buy a new saw when this one goes but this will last me a while like I said this Silky saw, this Gomboy Pocketboy has lasted me for two or three years the same blade so enough talking I'm gonna go around and find a piece of red oak so I can do a cut test on it with these four saws first up I'm gonna use the Baco Laplander so it works obviously and right away just uh from not using this saw for a while I can feel how short it is, how short I have to make my cuts because the blade length is just not there Next up. Let's use the Silky Pocketboy. It seems like the Laplander cut better than the Pocketboy might because the pocket boy is so old the teeth are worn out But definitely seemed like the Laplander cut better than that than the silky pocket boy the old gone boy See how she goes, I'm doing all these one-handed as well more of a pull cut on this one cuts on the pull nice and easy so that one's the best so far obviously and I'm sure the buck saw is gonna do it quicker but the point of this is they all work right it's not like one doesn't cut obviously the buck saw killed it all just for ease of cutting because the blade length is so long it's one of the reasons anyway and of course there's lots of other options right you can get a Fiskars folding saw you can get a Coglands you can North 49 I'm sure makes them all these little like Walmarty kind of things but the thing with those are they will break on you I had a Fiskars or Gerber they're the same kind that's slide up and you have that knob to turn it on to crank it on the knob failed on one the blade broke on the other if you're gonna get a folding saw or a saw for bushcraft outdoors use I would recommend to get at the very least get a Laplander, they're gonna last you for a very long time, they're sturdy, they do the job as you've seen, that's what I recommend to start with is a Laplander, a Bahco Laplander um Silky's again, Silky would be my choice um, but some people don't want to drop that money, I think they're, I'm not even 100% sure that that Gomboy's got to be at least 50 bucks um and then just right around there for the pocket boy, but lots of saws work well folks, I hope you found this useful, hope you got something out of it, there's been a lot of questions lately about my saws and my gear so I'm trying to answer it if I didn't answer it in this video just let me know and I'll do my best to answer in the comments or make a video about that, so if you appreciate what I'm doing if you like what I'm doing I would appreciate it if you like comment subscribe and share, uh trying to make a run of this so it helps thanks guys, I'll see you in the next one, bye something that I do like about the buck saw though that the the folding saws don't give you the option of doing is when you have a piece of wood that's this small maybe even half the size this or quarter size and you want to cut it up into into half and it's awkward because when things are small like this you can't really hold them together, pry or prop them up on something so if you take your buck saw you actually just put your foot on, you can do this with any buck saw, this one works really well for it cuz it's got a big big part on it, put your foot on there put your other foot on behind it you can do a couple different ways you can cross your feet like this whatever but then you can just move the wood you've got to do it slow at first until you get a groove and then super easy to cut wood that way and it's it's a good way to do bigger pieces like rounder pieces because you're getting a lot of torque sawing that way as opposed to moving one arm. Anyways good little tip.