Folding Saw

I have an older orange & black Fiskers sliding pocket saw I really like.
Used it a lot turkey hunting cutting brush blinds & opening fire lanes through the scrub in front of the blind.

It's little & light, but it cuts like a chain saw!

Don't know if they even still make them?

rc

I know a lot of people rave about those pocket chainsaw things. It's like a chainsaw chain, that you pull back and forth across the wood.
On the very rare occasion that I have needed a saw, i just used the one in my multitool.

I'm a fan of the folding knife/saw combo made by SOG Knives. The saw is quite good for small camping tasks, and when you don't need it all the time it resides in the handle of the fixed blade knife. I found the same thing that HSO did, most "good" saws are unnecessary. This one fits the bill when the limbs are too big to bust with your knee, and the Leatherman doesn't quite measure up:

http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/products/SOG/SOG®+Hunter+Revolver™/SOGFX20.html

ms6852 said:

Was wondering what kind of saw you use when camping. I always have a little hatchet but figured a good folding saw could be just as useful.

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Silky Gomboy 270. Tampered blade does not jam nearly as frequently as the straight sided blades (e.g. Gerber, Bahco). I have the medium tooth blade to cope with either green wood or well seasoned wood.

I have an old Nicholson camo locking folding saw. It works just fine along with my machete and camp ax.

Sierra Saw, by Coghlan's. I like to make my own walking canes and staves, so it's nice to be able to make a clean cut on the wood I select, rather than chop and hack at it with a hatchet, machete or other chopping tool. The saw is also lighter in weight than any of these, and will supply you with sawdust that can be used as fire tinder (be sure to saw dry wood for this feature).

Opinel also makes a saw version of their popular ring-lock knives.

I have a Browning 3 blade folding hunting knife that works well. One blade is a saw, and easily cuts through small branches or the pelvis bone when dressing a deer. Another blade is pointed and sharp for carefully cutting into the belly skin, and the third is sharp with a blunt tip for opening up the chest cavity and not poking through the intestines.

Came with a leather belt case, and is an attractive knife with dark hardwood scales, and brass bolsters. My only gripe is that only the center blade locks.

Nice to be able to carry a small saw.

It's like this one here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Browning-50...896?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item27e8d1cbf8

19-3Ben said:

I know a lot of people rave about those pocket chainsaw things. It's like a chainsaw chain, that you pull back and forth across the wood.
On the very rare occasion that I have needed a saw, i just used the one in my multitool.

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I bought one of those and carried it as part of my kit for a few backpacking trips. My conclusion was that it is heavy, takes up space and totally unnecessary.

the Bahco laplander is awesome and is pretty cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/BAHCO-396-LAP-Inch-Laplander-Folding/dp/B0001IX7OW

Folding saw...

Very seldom need a saw when out & about in the woods. Have a Gerber saw/snipper combo for brush trimming around a blind/shooting lane. The snipper broke & I replaced it, but the Gerber saw is good for easy, small, few & far between sawing jobs. Very agressive teeth; handle with care.

For in-camp use, to actually prepare firewood, the best saw IMHO is an old-fashioned wood framed bucksaw. These take down easily, with a turnbuckle tightening arrangement, and the blades are heavy enough to not turn and misdirect. (My chief complaint about more modern D-frame saws, with razor-blade-thin blades.) Blade can also be sharpened with a small file, if needed. Taken down, a bucksaw does not occupy much space in one's truck. Be careful not to lose the 2 pins which hold the blade.

AFAIK, bucksaws are no longer made, however they can often be had for not much $$, at farm auctions. Antique dealers are another source, however, if something is in the hands of an antique dealer, it becomes rare, precious, and expensive. Even if you have 2 just like it at home.

Yep Dad got a pair of them. But for me that Nicholson camp saw gets what ever I need done.

We use bow saws all the time on construction jobs .

Just the week before last I used the little saw in my Leatherman tool for the first time. I had carried that tool for years on remote wilderness trips and never once used the saw. I had backpacked into a salmon stream and through carelessness allowed my backpacking rod to smash on the first big salmon. With no way to get fish and virtually out of food I used the little saw blade to cut an alder limb, which I fashioned into a spear point. I couldn't make the spear point sharp enough, and even in inches of water the wooden spear point pushed the fish aside rather than penetrating it. Even if the spear had penetrated the fish, I'm not sure that without a barb, which I didn't know how to fashion in such soft wood, I doubt that it would have held a fish. It didn't exactly enhance my ego to be standing there in front of thousands of pounds of food, and be hungry, and not know how to get any of it.

I like multiple use tools ... Not a folder, but I use the sawblade from my pole pruning tool. Here are several examples ... https://www.treestuff.com/store/products.asp?category_id=46

I use the nuts and bolts that it attaches to the pole pruner with, made a small but comfortable handle securing it with those. Works perfect. If you are very creative, you can make that handle with a center channel, so it will act like a folder handle, almost like a scabbard.

If you want, there is even a scabbard available https://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?category_id=46&item=60 $17.