silky Katanaboy and GB Ray Mears axe

Using the silky Katanaboy 500 to fell a dead standing Spruce, bucking up then splitting with the Gransfors Bruks Ray Mears Wilderness Axe.

[@WR3ND]

I don't fell and process whole trees often at all, so that's a welcome method to know for sawing them. Thanks.

[@davebloggs]

Nice to see someone getting their priorities right, always make time for tea, and you are right. where i live here in canada, if you sweat you die in winter so everything is done slowly of with very few layers.

[@maritimespook]

Great technique Rob with Axe even used the Ray Mears Axe to limb the tree like he trains people the "thatcher concept" cheers my friend great vid !

[@davidevans3429]

Rob, Please ignore the thumbs down if it shows up. I'm an idiot and hit the wrong button. I really do enjoy your videos.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Press it again and it will go away!

[@davidevans3429]

@@RobEvansWoodsman Done. Sorry about that.

[@adamant8501]

Bless your hearth ​@@davidevans3429

[@GypsyBushcraft1]

Great idea with that log we’ll try it 😊

[@perebird]

Nice one Rob 👍…..I’m still favouring the Wetterlings Hudson Bay for splitting and the Wetterlings Swedish Axe if chopping is required too. Always enjoy the variety of tools in your reviews 👌

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I really like the Hudson bay but I didn't get on with the wetterlings forest axe.

[@atomsteel3205]

Good videó,,,👍🤝✌️

[@alanmullock381]

Don't worry Rob,I've grown too tall for my hair aswell👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤓

[@WR3ND]

No worries, I'm getting very thin up top and still have long hair. Always a good look, lets everyone else know not to bother you unless you want them to. 😅 Cheers.

[@grahamwinter5536]

Now that's a SAW 😅. 👍 Good one Rob.

[@ketodad]

That saw and my axe keeps me in firewood easy . I had to work twice as hard to process a tree solely with an axe. Now I just buck it up , and split the rounds. Thanks Rob.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I can't understand these guys that only use an axe , saws are so much less work .

[@ketodad]

@@RobEvansWoodsman Especially the Katanboy. Definitely worth the carry space and weight for the work it does. Big boy outback is another favourite.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

@@ketodad I have a few Silkys and I really like the non folding (sheathed) saws for bucking.

[@whiskeyriver4322]

Great mini-series of reruns. Always good to look back to see what we did right, and what we did wrong.......and how much hair we've lost since. 😇

[@gareththompson5653]

Brilliant idea with the stump and the cut log. I always wondered how to buck up the log's easier. Thanks for the video

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I'm full of smart ideas 😂😂 There's another one I'll try to find it.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

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[@gareththompson5653]

@@RobEvansWoodsman brilliant cutting the stump and splitting the kindling sticks I'm using that definitely. Thank you.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

@@gareththompson5653 there is a video from my Sweden 2019 trip where I did this again but I've removed it for re-editing.

[@Lemmy1]

Sometimes you just gotta bring out the big guns, just for shits and giggs. The Katana looks a bit cumbersome on those horizontal saw cuts, I was expecting it to bend tbh. Defo would have if it was me haha

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I probably wouldn't buy another one if this one broke or got lost, I haven't bothered with a new blade either.

[@RobertsBulgaria]

This is exactly what I did yesterday (Friday). It being an important National Holiday, last thing that I wanted to do was to upset the locals with a noisy chainsaw so, took my KATANABOY 500 down into the valley to saw up a long length of Willow that had come down naturally months ago. Similar to your setup, I used a BIPOD X tied to a tree to give me the required height for my old back to saw. I noticed that the blade will pinch IF you try cutting at an angle rather than cutting straight down. However, one serious pull with those saw teeth rips through soft wood such as dry Willow and it burns hot and quick in my woodstove. Next step was to wheelbarrow the rounds up to my house and use a proper AXE (no name, no fame simple metal and wooden handle) and like yourself, I had a rotting log as my base. It worked a treat as it compressed into a basin and stopped the logs flying all over the place - I ought to have filmed it. Sweating you say - the weather forecast here suggested showers around 1700 hours so I went to cut my wood two hours earlier, the skies opened and I got a soaking, but the thing is, I know I'm not going to spend the night outside and that, the wood I'm processing is going to provide a roaring fire to dry both rain and sweat wetness away - exactly what I did back in the house, got my fire roaring, sat in my Y-Fronts having a Whiskey and Coke or two. Survival Russia promised to show how to sharpen a Silky blade, but never uploaded such - if you know how to do it, film it and share it with us poor folk. 😉🤷‍👍 BTW, I do sympathise with you, it can't be much fun having webbed feet and being a slaphead too. 😜

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Life's too short to sharpen a silky saw.

[@RobertsBulgaria]

@@RobEvansWoodsman They're too expensive to replace so, I have little choice but to sharpen.

[@alanmeyers3957]

Look at the teeth, you should able to figure it out.

[@BjørjaBear]

I don't have any of these, but here in Scandinavia, I do not see myself hiking with those. Too big and heavy. I don't use a hatchet. In the forest you use an A1 or a Sami knife and a laplander or comparable silky. If on the cold mountain you only need the knife, an A1 or a Sami knife will do, but you can manage with a lot smaller. If it is cold, lower your activity level. Do not get wet and sweaty. Take it slow.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I wouldn't hike with them either, I'm a big fan of the falky A1pro and X with a smaller scandi grind knife.

[@clivedunning4317]

Hi Rob , Good evening, was that a pine tree you were felling ? It's just that I was looking out for fat wood being in the stump, but nada !

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Spruce , zero fatwood in them stumps, I've dug a few up.

[@philleath-dawson2113]

Great to see some big tools being used. Great idea with the high stump and log as a saw horse. Where did you get the carry case? 👍👍

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I bought it at the wilderness gathering years ago from Green outdoor, I can ask him if he has any left.

[@TheDavewatts]

No what you mean about going bald, I had a long mop of hair in my head banging year's, and me Dad in his seventies still has a great head of hair, I must have drew the short straw.👍🏻

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Shit happens , but you have great taste in music , knives and KZbin channels!

[@TheDavewatts]

@@RobEvansWoodsman every cloud and that 😂👍🏻

[@gerardmartyn1738]

How do you like the pathfinder pot/cup? Have one but haven't used it yet. Always great videos. Thank you 😊

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I actually swapped it for something over a year ago there was nothing wrong with it I just prefer my nalgene bottle and titanium cup with a bail handle.

[@fp2098]

hello, do you use your mora eldris? I read recently: Mors kochanski recently acquired a Morakniv Eldris. According to Jonathan McArthur, of the outdoor product line, it was the Eldris who really spoke to him. It was his favorite over Kansbol and Garberg.

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I've had a few over the years but I don't really like the grind, Mors liked the fact that it had a full handle and a short blade, if you're not going to batton then you only need 2" of blade.

[@fp2098]

​@@RobEvansWoodsman I hesitate with the mora robust, the advantage of the eldris is that you can work the wood and prepare the food.

[@fp2098]

do you think that Mors will have appreciated the Mora robust? I think it looks like his definition of a woodcutting knife, small blade...robust...sharp

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

He definitely would have liked the Robust.

[@fp2098]

​​@@RobEvansWoodsman Thank you for your answer. I want to buy myself a knife that Mors would have carried. Mora classic 1, 510, basic 511... I want to love this knife with its history. you have met Mors, is there a knife that he greatly appreciated? can you recommend one to me? I await your response, thank you

[@reddirt5489]

I would love to have a katanaboy, but that would be like buying a snow shovel for the beach 😂 You have the hardest damn wood to split I’ve ever seen. Is it because everything is so wet?

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

I really don't know why the spruce in that wood (now gone) was so hard to split, it just clung together even knot free rounds.

[@reddirt5489]

@@RobEvansWoodsman I’ve never seen anything like it.

[@geoffmccord4880]

Baldness is a sign of virility well thats what I tell myself 🤔🤣

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

You got to tell yourself something 😜

[@geoffmccord4880]

@@RobEvansWoodsman Saves on shampoo too lol