Hi all,
I would like flare you that yesterday a good friend of mine announced me that his Parang XL reported a damage on the blade (to be precise, a cutting part of blade was bending) working on a seasoned part of false acacie, diameter 6 centimeters.
He was on the XL since 3 weeks, and he was really happy with it, having worked and cleaned a large part of his woodland with XL.
Past saturday he was showing the cutting skills of the XL to his nephew, and he used (a bit too much ardently, he said
seasoned wood branches stocked two years ago for fire; at the end the blade showed a bending on the larger part of the blade. He completed anyway the cleaning work of the woodland with the XL on Sunday.
I had still not the chance to see the damaged blade.
Well, of course this did'nt make me happy, I just may say that Parang XL was designed and realized to work as a machete, on dense but normally fresh woods. I never had problems since 1.5 months having worked also on dry and hard woods, but who knows maybe I was just lucky.
Regards, Alfredo
PS at least I'll had the bending blade I'll post pics.