If you want to look at it from a martial viewpoint an axe offers some advantages and some disadvantages over a machete. I'm not pretending to be a super skilled mall ninja here but Kali can show how an axe can offer one distinct advantage over a machete if you are talking about actual fighting - and that thing is - Trapping.Just to go back to original point
What are peoples thought son using a machete as as backup weapon for a ranger type.
Would a Tomahawk be better
Northern arboreal/europe environment
with a Bow as a primary weapon.
And wanting to travel light.
So really boils down to would a long thin bladed but flat wide machete style sword ( falchionmesser) be usefull for woodcraft.
My own machete is short and quite thick as its the small british army one
and while machetes have been used as weapons even used in armies easpecially africa and the tropics
Whya rent they used more in northern arboreal?
I think a lot of other factors play into that other than the availability of metal tools.
Yes war axes of various types have been dug up but as far as I know they are associated with armed burials. I don't remember seeing anything like tomahawks in records of tools of historical times.We had indeed tomahawk similar fighting axes and spike hooks but they died out.
Actually you will find he has invented a sheath that does allow him to draw the sword from over his shoulder, of course it is not historical, but he has demonstrated that it works.For a start he is wearing a ridiculously long sword over his shoulder that he could not possibly draw. Fail...
Looks very much like some hunting swords. Depending on where one is and the season I would think that sufficient. For me the "problem" is that I was brought up using an axe, had I been a Sami I would be using a big Leuku happily. I understand that some people have tried using Kukris and Parangs with no problems so I don't think either solution is really better, just different traditions.Well blurring the lines between medieval, fantasy and bushcraft, I have wondered whether a Tod Cutler Breughel Messer would be any good for bushcraft. It is a historical weapon/tool carried by peasants, you can certainly use it for batoning, but it would not replace a good machete/slasher/billhook however if you are an adventurer out in the wilderness and that is all you have, it could be a decent all rounder and quite possibly was.
He did in some of the otehr books like silmarillion, tehers were the middle earth forum get a lot of info from.I dont think JRRT went into it in that depth
If you want to look at it from a martial viewpoint an axe offers some advantages and some disadvantages over a machete. I'm not pretending to be a super skilled mall ninja here but Kali can show how an axe can offer one distinct advantage over a machete if you are talking about actual fighting - and that thing is - Trapping.
I wondered this a few weeks back, he did a recent video on one of his messers that I thought looked very practical. almost cutlass like. I remember someone saying at battle agincourt falchions were used by archers to sharpen their defensive stakes, but for killing french knights they bludgeoned with mauls in to the mud and drowned them. A falchion was designed to go against cloth armour mostly. I think the messer looks better design tho.Well blurring the lines between medieval, fantasy and bushcraft, I have wondered whether a Tod Cutler Breughel Messer would be any good for bushcraft. It is a historical weapon/tool carried by peasants, you can certainly use it for batoning, but it would not replace a good machete/slasher/billhook however if you are an adventurer out in the wilderness and that is all you have, it could be a decent all rounder and quite possibly was.
Actually you will find he has invented a sheath that does allow him to draw the sword from over his shoulder, of course it is not historical, but he has demonstrated that it works.