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Yup, and they haven't always been used for farming
Neither was the tommahawk. Or the Viking axes. They were always meant to be multi-use items exactly because they were carried by just about everybody.
Thar said, some of the items in the video seem to be more heavily oriented towards the weapon aspect than multi use. In reality I see them more oriented toward the "neat gadget that will sell" aspect than any other.
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I'm dissapointed by the folder with the flip out guard, I would have tgought it better to have the guards flip out with the blade, ignoring the other design flaws, that one makes me sad, as if its an idea half realised.
Isn't the kukri used for everything from a kitchen knife to a farming knife to a machete substitute in jungles to a war knife for killing people. Kind of the NEpalese army knife in that it is many tools in one. Amazing how many variations on it there are too. Variations can be as subtle as the number of those little notched at the handle end of the blade. Not a knifey type so know not what they are called. I did read a bit once on the various more common styles of kukri such as the Indian or was it British Raj army one.
Anyway the one that looked a bit like the kukri was really just an overdesigned verson of the kukri that ruined it for me.
BTW That Hawke guy...wasn't he the "survival expert" that they had on the TV studio commentary part of that programme a good few years ago where they got a good mix of normal people and shoved them on a semi-tropical island with a hut and left them to try and fend for themselves and create their own community? He was the guy in the studio telling the studio audience that it was safe to drink your own pee for up to 10 minutes after you pee it out. A case of a guy with military training getting into the media and making some money. An American Bear Grylls perhaps although I prefer BG any day over him.
Anyway the one that looked a bit like the kukri was really just an overdesigned verson of the kukri that ruined it for me.
BTW That Hawke guy...wasn't he the "survival expert" that they had on the TV studio commentary part of that programme a good few years ago where they got a good mix of normal people and shoved them on a semi-tropical island with a hut and left them to try and fend for themselves and create their own community? He was the guy in the studio telling the studio audience that it was safe to drink your own pee for up to 10 minutes after you pee it out. A case of a guy with military training getting into the media and making some money. An American Bear Grylls perhaps although I prefer BG any day over him.
of course why settle for plain old boring survival when you can have elite survival lol
Myke Hawke? Err, surely that's taking the urine?
Its like Emma Roid or Richard Head.
Yeah me too. The style you describe is what's on every swithblade I've ever seen.
Other than this video I've never seen him. But based on it alone, I get the same impression you do.
He and his wife do or did the series Man Woman Wild
Get his wife instructing on the BCUK courses if you want to increase their popularity
Not a bad show, easy to watch
[video=youtube;lGhXfNLGd1Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGhXfNLGd1Q[/video]
That's one of several theories (almost all related to Hinduism) Another is that it's Shiva's trident. Still another is that it's a female phalic symbol.
In any case, they're called a "cho."
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