This is a mortise and tenon tool. The auger makes the mortise (hole) and the other part is a round chisel to make a tenon an appropriate size for a friction fit in the mortise. This idea of combining a round chisel with an auger is a modern invention. The mortise and tenon is one of the oldest forms of joinery in woodworking. The setter headed out into the wilderness would have an auger and standard chisel to make mortises and would use a knife or hatchet to carve out a tenon. A woodsman or woodworker would have had a few different size auger to make the appropriate size, a smaller one for making furniture and a larger one for building a house or other large structure

For those complaining about the socket being too big to fit any stick you see laying around you need a sturdy stick for more leverage also you can just put some rage in the socket to fill the place tightly for ur smaller stick

You chose a difficult log to split with what you had, good for you. Good video ! Thanks

Those are great for throwing together three legged stools and tables really quickly. I have a longer one I use to make rocket stoves out of logs (though you don't often find such nice, flat-cut sections).

Late to the party, but you can use the tool itself to make it's own handle by trimming 1/2 your handle stock a bit oversize, then driving the tool down, lightly tapping on the shank with a scrap piece of wood, as if you were batoning a knife. When it reaches the thicker 1/2-way pint, it will bite into the wood and give a very secure fit.

If you use the biggest round of wood you have, or even better, a flat-topped stump of appropriate height, as a base for the piece of wood you're splitting. As shown in the video, the Sponge Effect from the ground is absorbing a LOT of the energy from your mallet strikes. Also do NOT split wood on your concrete driveway, sidewalk, or porch. Eventually, this too will crack.

Modified scotch eye auger, modified by grinding a cutting edge onto the handle part been done by some folks for a very long time WW1 at least if my grandpa was right, my grandpa was an apprentice toolmaker in a colliery blacksmith shop as WW2 broke out and he laughed so hard when I showed him what I bought at a bushcraft show back in 2008 lol said pit workers would grind the interior and exterior edges of their Scots augers for different jobs in the coal mines.

Great skill with shetlers tool I made one with a old drill bit that I sharpened and welded a quarter-inch pipe on the top of the drill bit about two or three years ago took it on a couple of camping trips and it worked out great

Great tool. Thing to watch for is mainly the weld at the shaver. Cheap ones come with cheap welds. Also, if you find the need to sharpen the eyelet, keep in mind it cuts like a chisel not a knife. Sharpen it that way. Waxing, or oiling the eyelet can also help with not getting it stuck in wood. I find Weyland makes the best bang for the buck.

That's a nice mallet you made there. You might not be able to fit it in a backpack, but that's ok. It's big and it's heavy, but it works! I like your moxy! Good job, keep up the good work!

1:32 Britch!! .. excellent choice for a mallette!! :)

Today I learned something I never knew . Thanks.

You can call it what you want I have some augers that are over a hundred years old owned by my coal mining grandfather. I just bought one of these for some bushcrafting. Thanks for the review

The head will stay with the handle if you put a blind wedge in the handle before you insert it, running across the grain, of course.

have you try a two man cross=cut saw ? and the two-headed axe ? show how you use it . and how to sharpen both saw and the axe ..

Very nice. Yes, I think it’s worth it.

Cool tool. Just brought back memories of messing around with an old hand crank drill my dad had. I wonder what happened to it?

That stump was a meanie!

Was there any burring of the handle hole/ dowel former from the axe hits to make the dowel on the mallet handle?

i shit myself laughing when u took out the log hammer that's so awesome

Sweet. Cool tool

Thanks for the video. I subscribed

Thank you!

I like that auger because of the high pitch in the bit. It should be easier to turn than a low pitch auger. In addition, with a longer bit, a feller could drill down through the center of a piece of log, then drill into the side, and there's your Swedish torch. However, drilling down through the center of a log might require too much force to be practical, I dunno.

Have you considered using the auger to drill holes in the end of the log and another in the side that intersects the first one to make a rocket stove?

I have made several of these for family and friends. This Chinese version has a couple drawbacks. Firstly, the auger bit is too short. I make mine long enough to run pegs through an 8" log for use in shelter builds. Next is that peg tube is a little bit short also. Stainless steel is the correct material, but mine are around 3" lons so when in use you arent putting your twist load on such a narrow piece of the peg handle. Lastly, I want a quality bit that I can sharpen with a small file I keep in the canvas holder for this tool. My preferred bit size is 1" to 1-1/8". These are great tools for temporary camps and shelters when backpacking.

I have one of these and its very handy, worth the money.

Thanks for the review. I’ve been thinking about getting one for a while. What is the intro music? It sounds familiar but I can’t place it.

I looked to find out what a settlers tool was. it looked really interesting and it worked. I have never felt the need for ine when I have camped or gone hillwalking. if ever I intend starting from Zero I'll hope it's not to late to get a settlers tool.

Cool drone footage ,I saw those settler tool commercial several times,but not sure if it was interesting to buy

Super Fun to watch.

Any link you can provide or how is it advertised as on the Bay?

What keeps the head from flying off that mallet?

All good if you like “working” all the time in the woods. I prefer to spend more time relaxing under silence and solitude. For me, I prefer my little gas powered chainsaw in the back of the truck, a hatchet and a propane torch to quickly get the fire going. Add in a cast iron pan, home welded fire grill/grate and coffee pot. Don’t really need anything else and I’ll be drinking my coffee by the fire, watching someone still sweat’n and workimg, while trying to bore a hole into a pice of wood. I ❤️ modern conveniences, and I guarantee that Pa from Little House on the Prairie would’ve loved them as well.

You must have good arms.😀 I thought you would have trimmed the head down a bit.😮 How solidly is the handle in the head?

Settlers had saws too ….would have wooden wedges that split logs and not as hard on Barney Rubble hammers…have fun stay safe.

Where/who did you order from? I think i want to try one out. Thanks and very good video

I like the fiddle.

Five fingers, four fingers,three fingers, ouch - what’s this red stuff!

Scott’s eye bore?

Have you tested the skatchet?

The hoke was pretty drilled ...we ALL seen it lol😂

Cool!

Probably worth having if it will drill through hardwood w/o snapping.

why the musak ?

Damn. Metal on metal? How long will your tool last like that?

Scotch eye auger, pretty useful tool, but beware there is a lot of Chinese steel out there that seems to have the consistency of cheese.

I’ve never heard this thing called a “settler’s tool.” I’d call it an auger.

I'll bet your wrist and your arm was sore the next day. A all metal hatchet and all metal hammer would be the best. I wouldn't ever use the settlers tool to make a hammer unless I had to do it. It would be good to build shelter with or tables etc etc, not for weight for hitting a hatchet though.

When you said you were going to put it to music, I turned it off at the 1:15 mark

I guess you'll settle for it !

So to make a wooden mallet, you need a saw, a hammer, an axe, and this settlers tool thing. Why not just bring a mallet along?

Handy gadget.

Dude you should never chop that close to your fingers as in the first part. Thanks for the vid.

Does anyone know why it is called a "Swedish" firelog? Another honest mistake and mixup with Swiss? Edited: Majority of Vinlanders really are that ignorant. That firelog wasn't thought by anyone from New Sweden by any chance?

It's an auger.

That's an auger

I received the same one ,mine did not have the silver tube piece, I used it twice in pine and the second time the tip broke right off , I contacted the company and also Amazon, and neither of them would replace it, so I won't be buying a piece of junk like this again🤬

Tempered, I'm sure, so don't think I'd be beating on it with an axe 😮 could just me

4:16 Man, this is tiring to watch.

that's what i always telling people here in KZfaq, if china can lower the price why can't the US? that's why china excel 🤣✌️👍

That's so fake, if it was real it would have paracord. Not my first KZfaq video.

I gave this a 👎 because of the music.

Being a black smith for most of my life, I tend to be too cheap to spend money on tools I can easily make myself. I learned smithing from my granddad as a young man, so I make the things I need. It seems to work well, for now. I'd be interested to see how it's doing in a year, two, ten. I got a hole cutter I made 20 years ago and it's still going strong.

7-8 dollars on Temu.