Cutting Down Trees With a Mora

[Tomahawk]

I saw mors kochanski do that in person to a small aspen tree at the 1990 something rabbit stick rendezvous.

it was kinda cool, but the key isnt the mora knife, its technique.

tomahawk

[ForestNH/VT]

Like others, I had seen and used the first technique but not the second. Thanks for the info!

[Jason]

Second one was new to me also. Good video IW. I am looking forward to trying it but preferably on a full tang knife.

[IA Woodsman]

I will admit, I have broken 1 knife doing the second method. I was up in Alaska in the winter, and broke a USAF survival knife ( bolt knife).

Hawk, Mors is the one I learned this trick from in 1988 in MN. He drove a wooden handled Mora into a Poplar tree and stood on it before he took it down. Needless to say from that day forward I have loved Moras.

[Trekon86]

LOL isn't Mors a small statured guy, pretty in-shape?
That's likely why he could stand on it...methinks if I did that to my mora I'd bend it into a horseshoe
PMZ

[Nightside_Eclipse]

Cool! I was NOT expecting that first tree to spilt open that fast. haha

[hanzo]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[GreyOne]

Doing a bit of browsing and found this thread, with a video by IAWoodsman that I think is very worthwhile. Lot of the newer members may not have seen this.

Look at the first post, if you started here.

[L.V]

Haven't seen the video before and it's great! The first one is the de facto the way small knife (scandis) should be used to cut wood.

[sons of scotland]

thanks for bumping this up, great video.