Stick and stones break more than bones. Primitive tools can be found everywhere and used in many ways, you just need to know how to spot them and use them to their best advantage. Break Wood With A Tree
When you have a fork in a tree, or two trees very close together, you have the perfect place to use leverage to break wood. Insert the piece of wood into the fork, about the height of your hip – if possible. Walk forward, pushing against the wood with your hip and (if it’s not too thick) the wood will break at the fulcrum point on the tree closest to you. This doesn’t work very well on thick hardwood or short sections of wood (they don’t give you any leverage), but longer pieces of wood should give you all the leverage you need to break them. For a very precise break, use a stone saw or chopper to damage the area you want to break – and make that spot your fulcrum point.
One of the first features of the landscape I look for in a campsite is a “breaking tree” that can anchor sticks and limbs so that I can break them with leverage. Many people are familiar with the camp trick of propping up a stick on an angle somewhere and stepping on it (or jumping on it) to break it with your downward bodyweight. This will certainly work, but it often leads to unpredictable breaks and personal injury.
Start out by finding a pair of trees that are as thick as your leg or bigger. They should have a gap of 1 or 2 feet between them. They could also be closer, or if you are breaking long sticks and branches, they can be a few feet apart. You could also use a fork in a large tree that is easy to reach. Try to select a forked tree, or set of breaking trees that don’t have too much brush or saplings growing up around the business area. All this growth can get in your way when moving large or long sticks around.
To use the breaking tree, simply put the stick or branch in the gap between the trees – perpendicular to the trunk. Carefully push the wood with your bodyweight. Push it with some weight relative to the stick’s size and level of rot. Rotten wood can break unpredictably. Push the stick until it starts to break. Then break it with one quick motion. You could pull the stick toward yourself in a breaking tree, but when the stick breaks, many people are thrown off balance or even thrown down. The stick will break at the fulcrum point on the tree closest to your body.
There are a few actions that you can take to give you a better chance of breaking in a specific spot. You can chop or cut the stick in the place where you want it to break. You could also burn the stick in the place where you want it to break. Also try getting the desired breaking spot exactly at the fulcrum spot on the tree closest to you. I often combine these tips by chopping at the stick, and then positioning that damaged spot exactly on the fulcrum.
Breaking Crevice In rocky areas, you can use a strong, large rock crevice just as a breaking tree to insert and break wood with leverage. Just make sure that you are not using the stick like a pry bar to dislodge the stone of the crevice, which could fall and cause injury. Use Unmodified Rocks
When you think of the primitive tool kit our ancestors used, it’s easy to fixate on more sophisticated tools – like flint knives and stone axes. But long before humans made complex tools, they must have recognized the humble tools that they could make out of the rocks and natural features all around them. I find that I use a simpler and more foundational tool set for most of my work in a primitive camp. These unmodified stone tools could be used to work and process wood and other materials to create a variety of supplies and new tools. All it takes from you is the ability to spot these resources and a little finesse in using them.
Hammer A stone hammer is one of the first tools that could be added to your tool kit. Large hammer stones can be used to break sticks or drive stakes into the ground. Small to mid-sized hammers could be used for an even wider range of tasks. From pounding tinder to pounding in wedges to split wood, from cracking open shellfish to chipping shapes out of other rocks – hammer stones are essential primitive tools.
Saw Any rough edge on a stone can be used as a saw. The straighter and more even the stone edge, the better the saw will work. Stone saws can cut into wood, bone, antler and even softer stones. Move a small stone saw edge back and forth to cut, or move a small object back and forth on a big stone edge (like a rough straight edge on a boulder).
Sander Rough stones can be used as natural “sandpaper,” rasps or files. Flat stones can grind down flat surfaces. Rounded sanders can get into concave areas.
Chopper A sharp edge on a stone can act as a chopper or cleaver. This can cut or damage wood so that it can be broken with leverage, or struck with a hammer and broken. One handheld chopper used against the edge of a boulder can act as “shears” to cut wood and other materials from both sides at the same time. Make Stone Blades
We all love our survival knives. And besides a mobile phone to call for help, knives are one of the most versatile emergency tools we can carry. But what happens if you get caught without your knife? Or you need to do some butchering work, and want to keep your only knife clean? The idea of making some stone blades may seem primitive and even backward. But sharp stone blades can fill in for your favorite knife, and the best part is that they are easier to make than you might think – and they’re disposable.
Razor sharp stone blades can be as close as the local creek, if you learn how to identify the right rocks and break them open. Not every rock will break with a sharp cutting edge, but a quick test will tell you everything you need to know. Most parts of the globe have abundant rocks that will work. You don’t even need to be a geologist to sort it all out. Flint, chert, jasper, chalcedony, quartz and obsidian can all break to make sharp cutting tools. Just try the different types of local rock to see what works for you.
The easiest way to get sharp flakes of rock is a method that is commonly called bi-polar percussion. In this method, you are using a hard hammer rock to break a small stone sitting on a much larger stone. The large rock acts like an anvil, to provide unyielding resistance behind the rock you want to break. You’ll also stand up the rock you want broken on its tallest axis. Make it stand tall, as if you were trying to make an egg stand on its tallest side.
Making the rock stand tall is an important part of the process, allowing the shock waves from the hammer stone strike to move through the rock on the most efficient path. Use a large, flat hammer stone to crack down hard on the rock you are breaking. The hammer rock should be 4 to 5 times larger than the rock you are trying to break. If you are lucky, you’ll fracture off some nice, thin, wickedly sharp stone blades within a few strikes. And with a little practice, you should be cracking rocks into sharp blades, predictably and reproducibly.
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
The votes impacted by any alleged "changing of the rules" wouldn't swing the outcome.
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
The votes impacted by any alleged "changing of the rules" wouldn't swing the outcome.
What does that have to do with anything? That sounds like a giant hedge.
Either the Penn legislature changed the rules per the state constitution or they didn't.
THEY DID NOT
On its merits the 18 states are right about how the national election was not run according to law
You can ignore it, say it doesn't matter, or pretend you know how many votes were effected but you can't say the case doesn't have merit
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
The votes impacted by any alleged "changing of the rules" wouldn't swing the outcome.
What does that have to do with anything?
Apparently this is actually posed as a serious question. Disappointing.
It has just a wee bit to do with any remedy the Court could provide.
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
The votes impacted by any alleged "changing of the rules" wouldn't swing the outcome.
What does that have to do with anything?
Apparently this is actually posed as a serious question. Disappointing.
It has just a wee bit to do with any remedy the Court could provide.
You have no idea how many votes were effected by the mass mail in
You just want to deflect from the fact that the change of the rules was illegal
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
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Primitive Tools
Stick and stones break more than bones. Primitive tools can be found everywhere and used in many ways, you just need to know how to spot them and use them to their best advantage.
Break Wood With A Tree
When you have a fork in a tree, or two trees very close together, you have the perfect place to use leverage to break wood. Insert the piece of wood into the fork, about the height of your hip – if possible. Walk forward, pushing against the wood with your hip and (if it’s not too thick) the wood will break at the fulcrum point on the tree closest to you. This doesn’t work very well on thick hardwood or short sections of wood (they don’t give you any leverage), but longer pieces of wood should give you all the leverage you need to break them. For a very precise break, use a stone saw or chopper to damage the area you want to break – and make that spot your fulcrum point.
One of the first features of the landscape I look for in a campsite is a “breaking tree” that can anchor sticks and limbs so that I can break them with leverage. Many people are familiar with the camp trick of propping up a stick on an angle somewhere and stepping on it (or jumping on it) to break it with your downward bodyweight. This will certainly work, but it often leads to unpredictable breaks and personal injury.
Start out by finding a pair of trees that are as thick as your leg or bigger. They should have a gap of 1 or 2 feet between them. They could also be closer, or if you are breaking long sticks and branches, they can be a few feet apart. You could also use a fork in a large tree that is easy to reach. Try to select a forked tree, or set of breaking trees that don’t have too much brush or saplings growing up around the business area. All this growth can get in your way when moving large or long sticks around.
To use the breaking tree, simply put the stick or branch in the gap between the trees – perpendicular to the trunk. Carefully push the wood with your bodyweight. Push it with some weight relative to the stick’s size and level of rot. Rotten wood can break unpredictably. Push the stick until it starts to break. Then break it with one quick motion. You could pull the stick toward yourself in a breaking tree, but when the stick breaks, many people are thrown off balance or even thrown down. The stick will break at the fulcrum point on the tree closest to your body.
There are a few actions that you can take to give you a better chance of breaking in a specific spot. You can chop or cut the stick in the place where you want it to break. You could also burn the stick in the place where you want it to break. Also try getting the desired breaking spot exactly at the fulcrum spot on the tree closest to you. I often combine these tips by chopping at the stick, and then positioning that damaged spot exactly on the fulcrum.
Breaking Crevice In rocky areas, you can use a strong, large rock crevice just as a breaking tree to insert and break wood with leverage. Just make sure that you are not using the stick like a pry bar to dislodge the stone of the crevice, which could fall and cause injury.
Use Unmodified Rocks
When you think of the primitive tool kit our ancestors used, it’s easy to fixate on more sophisticated tools – like flint knives and stone axes. But long before humans made complex tools, they must have recognized the humble tools that they could make out of the rocks and natural features all around them. I find that I use a simpler and more foundational tool set for most of my work in a primitive camp. These unmodified stone tools could be used to work and process wood and other materials to create a variety of supplies and new tools. All it takes from you is the ability to spot these resources and a little finesse in using them.
Hammer A stone hammer is one of the first tools that could be added to your tool kit. Large hammer stones can be used to break sticks or drive stakes into the ground. Small to mid-sized hammers could be used for an even wider range of tasks. From pounding tinder to pounding in wedges to split wood, from cracking open shellfish to chipping shapes out of other rocks – hammer stones are essential primitive tools.
Saw Any rough edge on a stone can be used as a saw. The straighter and more even the stone edge, the better the saw will work. Stone saws can cut into wood, bone, antler and even softer stones. Move a small stone saw edge back and forth to cut, or move a small object back and forth on a big stone edge (like a rough straight edge on a boulder).
Sander Rough stones can be used as natural “sandpaper,” rasps or files. Flat stones can grind down flat surfaces. Rounded sanders can get into concave areas.
Chopper A sharp edge on a stone can act as a chopper or cleaver. This can cut or damage wood so that it can be broken with leverage, or struck with a hammer and broken. One handheld chopper used against the edge of a boulder can act as “shears” to cut wood and other materials from both sides at the same time.
Make Stone Blades
We all love our survival knives. And besides a mobile phone to call for help, knives are one of the most versatile emergency tools we can carry. But what happens if you get caught without your knife? Or you need to do some butchering work, and want to keep your only knife clean? The idea of making some stone blades may seem primitive and even backward. But sharp stone blades can fill in for your favorite knife, and the best part is that they are easier to make than you might think – and they’re disposable.
Razor sharp stone blades can be as close as the local creek, if you learn how to identify the right rocks and break them open. Not every rock will break with a sharp cutting edge, but a quick test will tell you everything you need to know. Most parts of the globe have abundant rocks that will work. You don’t even need to be a geologist to sort it all out. Flint, chert, jasper, chalcedony, quartz and obsidian can all break to make sharp cutting tools. Just try the different types of local rock to see what works for you.
The easiest way to get sharp flakes of rock is a method that is commonly called bi-polar percussion. In this method, you are using a hard hammer rock to break a small stone sitting on a much larger stone. The large rock acts like an anvil, to provide unyielding resistance behind the rock you want to break. You’ll also stand up the rock you want broken on its tallest axis. Make it stand tall, as if you were trying to make an egg stand on its tallest side.
Making the rock stand tall is an important part of the process, allowing the shock waves from the hammer stone strike to move through the rock on the most efficient path. Use a large, flat hammer stone to crack down hard on the rock you are breaking. The hammer rock should be 4 to 5 times larger than the rock you are trying to break. If you are lucky, you’ll fracture off some nice, thin, wickedly sharp stone blades within a few strikes. And with a little practice, you should be cracking rocks into sharp blades, predictably and reproducibly.
Even H knows that Pennsylvania broke their law by changing election rules without the legislature. So here come the insults. On its merits Penn fucked the dog on this. But in John Edward's Two Americas it just doesn't matter
Texas has as much interest in a fair federal election as New York had in who could eat at a Woolworths in Birmingham
Either the Penn legislature changed the rules per the state constitution or they didn't.
On its merits the 18 states are right about how the national election was not run according to law
You can ignore it, say it doesn't matter, or pretend you know how many votes were effected but you can't say the case doesn't have merit
Unless you're a fucking moron
It has just a wee bit to do with any remedy the Court could provide.
You just want to deflect from the fact that the change of the rules was illegal
NOGAF about your moronic rabbit holes
Have you figured out what treason is yet?