Paul Bunyan Award
The step beyond the Totin' Chip: know the hazards and first aid for woods tools, earn the Totin' Chip and help someone else earn it, learn nine tools and use four, then spend at least two supervised hours on a conservation project with them.
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The plan behind this
What it builds on
The Totin' Chip is requirement 3. Requirement 4 is helping another Scout, or a whole patrol, earn theirs. A Scout who already holds the Totin' Chip has requirement 3 done.
The nine tools in requirement 5
Requirement 5 lists the tools whose safe use, maintenance and storage you need to know: axe, hatchet, loppers, McLeod, Pulaski, saw, shovel, pick axe and pry bar. Requirement 1 is about the hazards of those same tools, and requirement 6 is proper use of four of them.
Requirement 7 needs your unit leader first
At least two hours of conservation work with woods tools, with your unit leader's approval and under supervision. One of three kinds:
- clearing trails or fire lanes;
- trimming a downed tree, cutting it into four-foot lengths and stacking it, and making a brush pile from the branches;
- building a natural retaining wall or an irrigation way as part of a planned conservation effort.
What this page is
The Paul Bunyan Award, drawn so the Totin' Chip comes before helping others with theirs, and the tool list in requirement 5 feeds the demonstration in requirement 6. It is not a copy of the requirements: each step is a short label with a link to the official requirements, which are what actually governs.
Sources for this page
- Paul Bunyan Award Requirements, Awards Central page · The requirements themselves, and how the award is obtained.
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