Probably a mixture of state, county, parish and private owners.
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We have those here as well (although the most common has a slightly different blade shape) and they’re awesome tools! In the South they’re normally referred to as “kaiser blades.”For path clearing of bramble and the like, nothing beats a slasher. My personal favourite is the Irish Double Edge.
http://www.bulldogtools.co.uk/products/farming/cutting-tools/premier/irish-double-edge-slasher/
Billhooks and machetes are too short handled.......
Might be a stupid question: Who owns a footpath/bridleway/green lane?
The state? The county?
You learn something everyday. I now know I shouldn't use a machete in the UK and if I use one clearing my path I'll expect a visit from the police. Should I ask for a locking knife, handsaw and chainsaw to also be taken into consideration?
Anyway, I like a machete for clearing brambles and thin branches, some times. For the original question I'd use a saw and learn how to use it. If it's getting stuck look up compression and tension when cutting, or use a thin wedge above the saw blade to stop the cut closing above the blade.
And ask permission, considering the owners perhaps say a prayer?
The legal owners aren't even in the same country considering the woodland is in Wales and the church of England is kind of... in England?
Most of the time a chainsaw with a 16" bar should do the majority of log cutting.
I have both gas and electric. For rough-out wood carving, that's plenty.
You can see me leaning on some rounds in my avatar. Cut with a 36" bar.
Living in the Taiga/Boreal Forest, trees thrown across the logging roads is a constant nuisance.
Everybody travels with either a power saw or a bow saw at the very least.
Knife things don't work well in wood. Tropical plant growth, the forest understorey,
grows fast and it's like chopping celery. Nothing we will ever experience in the temperate zone.
Well I used a Martindale machete to clear the nettles along the path beside the burn, and a dog walking neighbour looked at me with horror.
So, I put it away and I found a sickle instead. (Known as a heuk around here) and not another soul commented apart to make conversation about how the council used to have enough money to be able to do this.....
https://www.machetespecialists.com/filter/brand/martindale/
Buy and use something innocuous, something that looks 'gardening' and no one will bother you.
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nothing like making a mountain out of a mole hill.Not sure what size of bar I have on the petrol chainsaw here, 18-20 inches perhaps but don't fancy the slog of dragging it into the woods. It's not like there's easy access for quad bike pulling a trailer, it's all fenced in with stiles to clamber over in order to keep livestock in their fields which surround the woodland. I don't actually own a quad bike anyway...
Might be a stupid question: Who owns a footpath/bridleway/green lane?
The state? The county?
You learn something everyday. I now know I shouldn't use a machete in the UK and if I use one clearing my path I'll expect a visit from the police. Should I ask for a locking knife, handsaw and chainsaw to also be taken into consideration?
If it's your path, then you are on your private property, and therefore have no problem.
It really depends on what sort of stuff you’re clearing too. The longer handles are very useful when slashing thorny bits where you want the extra reach to stay out of the thorns themselves...........
guess I really should get on and do my review of the Condor Eco Parang Machete, which I have had and used for over 18 months now. Lets just say that I think it could do with improvements to make it a good/usable tool. That is the problem with many such tools, the idea of the tool may be fine, but the execution is poor, leading to poor performance and the impression that the type of tool, the idea of it, doesn't work. My folks have a slasher tool, used to be fantastic, until some muppet broke the handle...the replacement handle is heavier, and longer, and it just does not work as well as it did. If I had not used it with the shorter handle it would be easy for me to think that slashers must be rubbish.
All the best
Chris
I think this is where the machete actually accels. It’ll never be the best tool for heavier cutting and definitely isn’t a do everything tool; but it’s probably the single most intuitive to use.Long cutting tool handles take a lot of getting used to - they need a lot more muscle training to use them properly so you can't just pick one up, have a go, and say it's useless. It took me a lot of pain to get to use them properly and, as soon as you stop for a few months, you have to start all over again. Fine for someone using them every day but dreadful for occasional use.
I do think the whole 'cutting tool' thing is very subjective though. As I said above, I'm doing a lot of coppicing at the moment and I'm using a billhook but all the time I'm using it I'm thinking 'this isn't ideal' - yet this is a tool developed over hundreds of years - how can I possibly know better? What I do know is it doesn't quite suit how I want to work; I'll be designing my own for next season
Long cutting tool handles take a lot of getting used to - they need a lot more muscle training to use them properly so you can't just pick one up, have a go, and say it's useless. It took me a lot of pain to get to use them properly and, as soon as you stop for a few months, you have to start all over again. Fine for someone using them every day but dreadful for occasional use.
I do think the whole 'cutting tool' thing is very subjective though. As I said above, I'm doing a lot of coppicing at the moment and I'm using a billhook but all the time I'm using it I'm thinking 'this isn't ideal' - yet this is a tool developed over hundreds of years - how can I possibly know better? What I do know is it doesn't quite suit how I want to work; I'll be designing my own for next season
The machetes are fine cutting twigs, bamboo, soft stems like banana. Anything more than 4 cm or so is very difficult, imo Also as the steel is soft, they blunt rapidly.
The billhooks are superior in everything, except bananas.
The guys that do my garden all use machetes, and if any thicker branches need to be taken down, they have to hack away like mad. And I have to go back and tidy up the cut with a saw, and wax.
It can be the skill set/level, but if a machete was any good (better than) a billhook, we would use more of them in Europe?
Interesting thought!
Well, the sugar cane came from south Asia originally, and I guess they had a cutting tool developed for it?
Parang like?
I do not remember any German in Dafoe’s novel?