Study the Scouts BSA handbooks handbook and the Camping merit badge pamphlet, and demonstrate to your Scoutmaster or other qualified person the following:
- Explain the most likely hazards you may encounter while using woods tools listed in requirement 5 and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, manage, and respond to these hazards.
- Show that you know first aid for Injuries that could occur while using woods tools.
- Earn the Totin' Chip.
- Help a Scout or patrol earn the Totin' Chip, and demonstrate to them the value of proper woods-tools use.
- Be familiar with the proper and safe
use, maintenance, and storage of woods tools
including:
- a. Ax Axe
- b. Hatchet
- c. Loppers
- d. McLeod
- e. Pickax
- f. Pry bar
- g. Pulaski
- h. Saw
- i. Shovel
- Pick Axe
- Pry bar
- Demonstrate proper use of four of the tools listed in requirement 5.
- With unit leader approval and supervision, using woods tools, spend at least two hours
doing one of the following conservation oriented projects:
- a. Clear trails or fire lanes for two hours.
- b. Trim a downed tree, cut into 4-foot lengths, and stack; make a brush pile with branches.
- c. Build a natural retaining wall or irrigation way to aid in a planned conservation effort.
In addition to the Patch shown at the top of this page, a wallet card ( No. 34235A) shown below, is available.
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The older version of the wallet card (No. 4235) is shown below.
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Source: SCOUTS BSA REQUIREMENTS 2020
