Wannabe Bushcrafter's video: Primitive Digging Stick : The Stone-Age Wonder tool

Today I created a Primitive Digging stick with a fire-hardened tip. This stone age tool is incredibly efficient at digging up root vegetables, slow moving animals such as grubs, slugs, and worms, as well as tree roots which can be used as cordage and lashing. I began by sawing off a dead free standing limb approximately 4 feet in length. I think processed the limb with my hatched, removing knots, and the bark. The stave was then given an asymmetrical wedge on one end. The wedge end was then placed near a small flame and repeatedly fire-hardened and polished on a large stone. At the end of this effort I had the completed digging stick, modeled after those used by primitive aborigines. The efficiency of this tool is truly amazing, I could dig holes with just a fraction of the effort required from a simple batton. And the fire-hardened edge seems really durable. While foraging with the digging stick, I came upon several massive slugs hiding in a rotten log, providing easy animal protein.