Machete

your machete should look like this









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Muckin_Slusher said:
What is hinge cutting?

Are you clearing trail or gardening?

Edit: Oh, is that the thing for deer habitat?

I'm curious, why doesn't a saw work for that?
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Cut a small tree half way, bent it 90 degrees. It will live and produce low lying cover. Turn big open woods into better habitat to hunt. I makes lines of it to different areas to give them places to cross open woods safely. I have changed the deer trails to where I want them going.

Deer and animal habitat.

A single clean cut has yielded them living longer with good leaf/ cover.

A single wack is faster, less energy and easier than sawing at each tree, I cover more ground. Think about walking by, one swing, bend, move on. Or standing and sawing or carry an electric saw
 
I have been a surveyor since the late 90s. It's mind blowing the amount of brush a surveyor cuts some days. Our company strictly used Martindale machettes. They are thin and light so not the best for large trees but I have never seen one broken. They only ones I have seen destroyed were bent from prying on them or worn out from years of sharpening. I kept one for my brush machette and had an Ontario knife for heavier work. I did see a few snapped Ontario kmachettes but never broke one myself. All of the broken ones were also used as a hammer to drive nails and stakes. My theory is the hammering caused stress fractures and the a breakage later on. I also kept a brush axe around but hated swinging it but it was good for beating down a rose bush.
 
I had this when I was a kid/boy scouts, thick & great for clearing trials on hikes. It was stamped "Made in England"
Something like this, no sheath. Made a loop to carry it in case of bear attack(s)- :laughing:
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This is the one I like, although they do need a final sharpening when new.

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Made in the US since 1889. My grandfather used one to chop up slant eyes in the Pacific during WWII.
 
Fiskars has some neat options but I don’t know about quality.

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Poke said:
It’s a soft wood but frozen. I think the glancing blows did it but I really don’t think they should have. Thin ****ty metal. I hit 0 rocks or hard wood with that blade and chunks of metal were flying.
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Beech is hardwood. They gunstocks out of it. Northern Sugar Maple and several oaks are other common northern hardwoods. Since he is into beech he is north. Not sure about southern plants. In CA Madrone and Manzanita are cursed. Eucalyptus sucks.
 
Poke for a moment I thought you took my machete out of my scrap bin.

I had exact same machete and looked the same after little use.

The saw back side is nice for wherever I couldn’t swing or on 1” and thicker stuff.

I’m looking for a new one. Leaning toward to just try a cheap one from HF or TSC and hope I’ll have a better luck. Gerber is pathetic!
 
Cordless hackzall with a decent blade. If reach is an issue I typically zip tie mine to a scrap 2/4 or full 8' stick when getting after higher tree branches (beats getting a ladder). M12 Fuel I have has treated me good this far, 6.0ah battery lasts a long while.
 
Gtrplyr78 said:
Cordless hackzall with a decent blade. If reach is an issue I typically zip tie mine to a scrap 2/4 or full 8' stick when getting after higher tree branches (beats getting a ladder). M12 Fuel I have has treated me good this far, 6.0ah battery lasts a long while.
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I do that with my cordless sawzall to but with telescoping pruner pole. I wrap the cord around the handle so its over the trigger so I can pull it.
 
I have a Woodman's Pal I bought a while back after a few libations on a Friday night. I give it a solid meh.

Weight - Good solid feel, nice carry through, but hard to get whacking speed with.
Width- Wide for good solid hits, hard to smoothly clear though with a single swing on loose stuff.
Sheath - Eh not for in and out use, but that said not sure I have ever had a machete sheath that was 'convenient'
Back hook - for looks???
Handle - My biggest gripe, nothing to keep it from rolling in your hand.

I think it might have some merit in the correct environment, but over all not worth the $- I want to say I paid less than $80 for it back when.
 

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Thatg9659 said:
I came to the same conclusion, those ****ers use machetes,

Anything marketed by bear Grylls it's gotta be worthless
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Yep. The tang on that Bear Grylls pile of **** necked down to about .50 in width. I was shocked someone would put their name on that pile of ****.
 
Aisin said:
Yep. The tang on that Bear Grylls pile of **** necked down to about .50 in width. I was shocked someone would put their name on that pile of ****.
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Crap like that the people that buy them do so with the idea of using them not the need to.

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Nurse friend of mine doesn't like that it has "bloodlines" :laughing:
 
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