Making Primitive Stone Axes for Survival

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a switch in a survival I'm out here scouting around for some stones large enough to make a hand axe it's a nice brisk day out it's a minus three degrees Fahrenheit so it's like minus 35 or so on Celsius got my wool scarf in effect nice and toasty let's see what we can find

all right so they got a couple minutes together got some hopefuls in here nice piece this is kind of cool steel that works up well I'm looking for and stuff that's big enough that I can break off some pieces maybe break off an edge and make it really sharp on one side see how this comes to a point right there

it'd be great if I could make that sharp now you just hold the back of it I got myself a hand axe right so you know quickie stone tools are very easy to make and they get the job done you don't have to be sitting there napping and and all that stuff taking hours of time to make this amazing tool when you can just break stones and get it done now you know this is the tools that you use to make your fire kits you know to make your your water containers things like that you know then after you worry about napping what you can to make really really nice arrowheads and all that other stuff you know atlatl heads everything else but in the meantime you know your survival needs are met by instant tools you know I don't want to be messing around for hours when I can just you know break a stone in half and have a hand axe you know I can stop make it a bow you know within five minutes of breaking that rock right so that's the exercise we're going through today and let's see if we can get something usable out of out of this material just found this really nice anvil flat surface and it's really really large so it's going to be really rock solid to break these on

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okay so what I've been using my hammer stone it's actually a big piece of quartz yeah so I figured if my hammer stone ended up breaking in half or breaking off a shard or something or big chunk I might get a hand axe out of that as well yeah okay so I haven't broken all these up yet I still have some I haven't even touched it's probably the best-looking piece out of all of them too but I've already gotten some really nice-looking pieces oh yeah pretty happy with that one that's nice so the nice tight grain quartz inside right so that's a great edge right there there's another one all right normal-looking Rock there's the edge right there right in front right so you know very easily hold in the back right there right

it's another interesting one all right here is really really sharp easily hold the back of that of the night so got a lot of cool pieces here this one's actually pretty sweet too it's not really a hand axe pretty small but I mean look at that edge that's a great break right there that's awesome nice edge insanely sharp might be a good size for doing feathers or something right okay so I got a bunch of hand axes here all easily and quickly made still got some extra material having worked on but that's pretty much all there is to it you know you just just like making smaller cutting tools you know quickie tools are really key to me and you just need an anvil and you just need a some sort of hammer stone to break them you know stop busting off tools like instantly then you can use these tools to affect your survival by taking care of your fire and your water needs shelter needs you have to cut down saplings things like that and or for bedding you know if you want to use these to cut pine boughs off of the saplings you know and once in a while even when you're making hand axes you get lucky and you get shards that can be used for arrowheads so I'm going to keep that one as well alright so this is something I don't mind taking it's a the main shoot of the tree is dyed and this is just a little side branch and it's absolutely surrounded by trees it's getting choked out it's only maybe eight feet tall that's a couple little branches off of it so this would be something that I would choose to make a bow out of because it looks like it's maple I like making bows out of maple and you know it's really not I'm not taking out a phenomenal thriving tree you know sapling that's really out in the open doing its thing really you know this thing is already half dead so I'm going to go ahead and cut this off you know as if I was making a bow just to give you guys an idea the effectiveness of these stone tools all right first one's working out pretty good switch to another one just get an idea you know needs a couple different ones so try this guy out of a smell maple

you know it's an axe right just like every other act you start a line you work your way down it's not easy work especially not at minus-4 all right Nick we're just about there see if I can pull it over here caught on the ground all right got down and there it is alright so they have it I this permission dated survival as you can see these cookie hand axes clearly get the job done

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