some really good thoughts here guys,it's great to see this did not drift off into "you need a big knife to stick bad guys and fight off bears"
i was not thinking of Nutnfancy himself,i fact i sort of like his stuff and have told him so,he's not so "end of the road survivalist" as some on the Tube.
also it was the mindless whacking away i was down on and not batoning which is the only way to get dry wood sometimes and some places.i think of it as making small splints for fire starting and not replacing a ax to make billets.i have used my Mora 2000 in the batoning mode to get chop stick size sticks out of broom stick size wood but thats about as large as i would go to avoid busting my knife.also just hitting a knife back to split wood does not seem to burn energy as much as full arm swinging chopping.
of course if your camping for sport or have a cabin with a 50 pound sack of flour and a rifle you can whack away all you want.