Is it better to carry a small axe and a regular shovel or a small shovel and a regular axe?

Is it better to carry a small axe and a regular shovel or a small shovel and a regular axe?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Axes give -1 to stamina and shovels are -5 to intellect. You get these in beginning zone and nobody uses them past level 12. You can't dual wield with the larger sizes so they are actually horrible for questing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      shovels are excellent melee weapons with reasonable durability

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They have slow attack, lower crit % and the lower int also reduces initiative. They are fine at low levels but suck against armor of any kind and in raids they're a meme. You can barely solo low level bears with them, for example.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Titanium trowel, and a Silky Saw

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Silky Saw
      The wood I'm trying to cut is too wet for a saw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I've tried before and the saw's teeth get stuck on the fibers

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Like rotten or green wood?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's a kind of palm tree that has a lot of thorns
          I can make small logs with a saw no problem but I want long logs cut down lengthwise

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Palm isn't a tree. There is exactly zero wood on a palm.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Ok so how do I cut it in half?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                There are over 300 varieties of palm in Florida alone.
                A Chilean Wine Palm can bee several feet thick at the base and a Pineapple Palm basically has armor.
                These are all decorative trees though--Indonesians and most people that live near equatorial frosts use machetes for bushcraft.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Acrocomia aculeata

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Rent a chainsaw.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That bad? I'm trying not to carry too much

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If that's your primary target and you have several to cut the chainsaw is your best bet. That type of palm can be an absolute c**t. Your other option is a pry bar for the outer scale and a finer saw for the rhizomes. Palm is basically a giant, pulpy herb and it cuts more like celery than lumber.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                There's literally 200 inside a 1.5 acre property
                My friend thinks he can do it with an axe, I tried a regular saw last time and I couldn't get through lenghtwise
                Horizontally it sliced like butter

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >200 in 1.5 acres
                Rent a bulldozer. You're going to have to deal with the root bundles so might as well do it all at once. That's well above what is reasonable to cut manually.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                But I'm talking more about an PrepHoleing
                First to make a safe space in between all the thorns and also to make some shelter with the logs

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Palm is an awful building material. It was traditionally used because it was available, not because it was good.

                You can get a small chainsaw for under 200 bucks.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's very heavy and I have to hike a long way
                Anyway it's this Saturday and I've decided on the big axe

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                X Series ECHO chainsaw CS-2511T

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I appreciate the suggestion but I kinda want to go unnoticed

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                How is hacking away with an axe, "stealth"?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I could be a wild goat ramming against a tree

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Whole premise sounds kinda moronic, not gonna lie. You're going on a long hike with a friend to a 1.5 acre plot where you want to cut down a bunch of these thorny ass hell trees into logs and build some jungleBlack person hut out of them, but you need to do it with hand tools because you want to be stealthy? My advice is come up with something better to do with your time.

                Are you in fricking paraguay anon?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I am in fricking Paraguay and it's the wet season so the only PrepHoleing I can do right now is going to a friends abandoned property and try to clean it up a little
                Don't you guys have fun little adventures anymore?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                We frickin do. It can be fun.

                But get a chainsaw you moron. Doing it all by hand will be a b***h

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I cannot afford

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                saw beats axe anon
                fixed stainless handsaws.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Okay, this sounds Looney Tunes as frick but it is a legitimate suggestion: Try blasting the trees. You'll have to deal with the stumps anyway if you're truly trying to clear the land, blasting will help you with this.

                Can you get ammonium nitrate fertilizer where you are? Has to be 100% pure. Look up how to make ANFO for the bulk explosive and HMTD for the blasting caps (I choose those two because they can be made from materials that are relatively easy to get), stick it in PVC pipes or something to make yourself some poor man's dynamite. Drill out a big ass hole in each tree, right down at ground level. Put your homemade dynamite in the hole, light the fuse, and frickin run for it. If the police come to investigate the explosions tell them you were being shot at by the cartel lol

                Dynamite is how people used to clear out stumps anyway, before they had heavy equipment.

                But yeah if you can't do that your best bet is the biggest motherfricking saw you can get your hands on. Try working it together, you and your friend each hold one end. But good luck dealing with the stumps after that

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        use a concrete hand saw but sharpen it well

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't recall ever using a shovel while "out"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What do you do if it starts raining and you need a moat? Or if you're hiding from someone and need to make a dakota fire pit to hide your camp?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you're with a group and/or spend several days in a single camp you need a proper designated pooping hole.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I keep a garden shovel in my truck for when I’m cooking with buddies in someone’s backyard. Also take it kayak camping because frick it I can and it’s good for poop holes.
      On my back, just a trowel.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I carry one of those cheap hatchets you can buy for like $20. Pounds tent pegs in hard ground, splits wood, will chop brush. It's an axe head so sharpening it is the easiest thing ever. If you need to cut timber bring a saw.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    big axe small shovel. All I can think you're using a shovel for is for the bathroom and maybe digging out a fire pit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's probably going to rain to I need it for a moat

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Small shovel (as in milsurp troop size, not a shit trowel) and a pack axe. You can get most any camp digging done with a smaller shovel, but if you try to split logs with a hatchet you're gonna have a bad time

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have found picrelated to be a better tool for most things I use an axe for. easier to carry, more versatile, can firewood.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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