Study the Scouts BSA 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:
- Axe
- Hatchet
- Loppers
- McLeod
- Pulaski
- Saw
- Shovel
- Pick Axe
- PryBar
- 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:
- Clear trails or fire lanes for two hours.
- Trim a downed tree, cut into four-foot lengths, and stack; make a brush with branches.
- Build a natural retaining wall or irrigation way to aid in a planned conservation effort.
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