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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6649093" data-attributes="member: 15700">Funny enough, this is is what is nonsense.&nbsp; If you are in rocky enough soil that a tent spike can't be driven in, you think you'll wake up in the middle of the night and dig a trench through that with a knife?&nbsp; Absolutely ridiculous proposition.&nbsp; Honestly I think you should just stop, because I think you're digging yourself into a bigger hole (no pun intended).I do A LOT of bushcrafting.&nbsp; In lots of different climates (Oregon is a wonderful state for this since we have rainforests, grasslands, high desert, coastal, rocky mountains, and temperate deciduous AND coniferous forests all within two hours radius of where I live.)&nbsp; I spend a lot of time with like minded individuals.&nbsp; The minute you take out your knife and thrust it in the dirt to &quot;drill out a hole&quot;?&nbsp; Half of them would think you an incompetent idiot.&nbsp; The other half would probably leap at you to stop you from ruining your knife.&nbsp; And even if for some God knows reasons you had to do that, an axe would still be better to dig a trench than a knife, so your hypothetical doesn't exactly help your argument that a knife is better.So when you say IME, based on what you have claimed so far, I suspect that &quot;experience&quot; is something you may have seen on a TV show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6649093, member: 15700"] Funny enough, this is is what is nonsense. If you are in rocky enough soil that a tent spike can't be driven in, you think you'll wake up in the middle of the night and dig a trench through that with a knife? Absolutely ridiculous proposition. Honestly I think you should just stop, because I think you're digging yourself into a bigger hole (no pun intended). I do A LOT of bushcrafting. In lots of different climates (Oregon is a wonderful state for this since we have rainforests, grasslands, high desert, coastal, rocky mountains, and temperate deciduous AND coniferous forests all within two hours radius of where I live.) I spend a lot of time with like minded individuals. The minute you take out your knife and thrust it in the dirt to "drill out a hole"? Half of them would think you an incompetent idiot. The other half would probably leap at you to stop you from ruining your knife. And even if for some God knows reasons you had to do that, an axe would still be better to dig a trench than a knife, so your hypothetical doesn't exactly help your argument that a knife is better. So when you say IME, based on what you have claimed so far, I suspect that "experience" is something you may have seen on a TV show. [/QUOTE]

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