Why an axe and a fixed blade knife?
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OK, thanks. What needs doing to them generally? Is it just that they have a bad edge to start?
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This was a nice wood prep Kukri
In my experience Condors need alot of TLC before they are up to the job
lovely little project pieces but out the box tools they are not
Granted, these CAN be broken too, but generally a Panawal (full tang khukuri) such as this is more robust:
This was a nice wood prep Kukri
worst you'd do to a hatchet is need a new handle
In my experience Condors need alot of TLC before they are up to the job
lovely little project pieces but out the box tools they are not
To be fair thats not a Kukri its a POS stamped out of Tin foil
maybe not but its quoted as a ColdSteel LTC Kukri which was what the OP was talking about
This was a nice wood prep Kukri
worst you'd do to a hatchet is need a new handle
In my experience Condors need alot of TLC before they are up to the job
lovely little project pieces but out the box tools they are not
To be fair, Cold Steel make a few different kukri style blades, and I think that one is one of their 'kukri machetes' (and fails on both points) It is nothing like their heavy duty ones, which are excellent. (I've had both) There is a massive price difference though.
I've got, had, and used most choppy things over the years, machetes, parangs, khukuris, billhooks etc, and it's down to personal choice really. If if you can do a good job safely with a tool that may not be the accepted norm, then that's all good. I don't get on with billhooks for example, even for coppicing and hedge laying. Can't stand the things, but there's a lot of guys around here that are absolute demons with them. I like axes for wood processing around the farm, but they are too heavy and bulky for me to be carrying them around in a rucksack. I don't really feel the need to have big fires when I'm out in the woods anyway.
Funnily enough, I've gone full circle with my 'out in the woods' tools. Back in the 80's I used to use a big old khukuri that I 'liberated' from my grandad's shed and a swiss army knife. I never got on with the survival knives that were the norm at the time. Had a few, broke them all! Of course that was all pointed out to be completely wrong with the 'invention' of bushcrafting, where you had to have a 4 inch sharpened crowbar and a saw that looks like a penknife.
Nowadays, my go to tools are.... you guessed it, a small kukri, and a swiss army knife! Slightly newer versions granted, but I guess you stick with what you are happy with.
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Wow, can't believe they managed to break an LTC kukri! I used mine for weeks/months at a time in Ecuador, Belize and the UK and barely put a ding in it... They are expensive, but you get what you pay for.
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I think that this axe trend is mostly convention/fashion. sure, hatchets are less treatening, are maybe lightweight and take less space, but there's nothing they can do that a small billhook/kukri cannot do. I own several axes and billhooks the type used in northern italy, which have not changed in style for maybe 2 thousand years. For the size, a small hatchet, say a 40 cm 500 gr one, has more or less equal penetration than a 4 mm thick, 30 cm billhook. plus, with the billhook you can grab dead branches from the ground or pull logs, you can clear saplings and brushes and thick grasses, dig roots, and also act as a big knife.
How much wood we need to chop during a trip, anyway?
I also own a kukri, a 5 mm thick, full tang one made by Fox, and even if not nepalese made, is a great chopper and nice tool, I say on par with an hatchet.
In a bush, or in the woods, I would take a small billhook and a folding knife.
How much wood we need to chop during a trip, anyway?
I also own a kukri, a 5 mm thick, full tang one made by Fox, and even if not nepalese made, is a great chopper and nice tool, I say on par with an hatchet.
In a bush, or in the woods, I would take a small billhook and a folding knife.
Well had some gardening to do yesterday as we had redone our front Fence (on to a Field for sheep so stock fenced ) so had to take out some Hazel and a hawthorn to get a nice run of rails
My silky Big boy was most usfull getting out he branches and stems up to 3-4" but we got the chainsaw out to speed up the hawthorn at 10-12" and cut out he big main bits
this left a pile of branches to deal with so out came my Test Parang which had been to Guana for 6 weeks jungle use by a Discovery film team Medic
this is the only one in the first batch witht he Chris Grant bird Beak left on
other than a quick light sharpen to take the Coating off the edge it was never touched again for the trip and still sharp
Heres about half the Brush i had to sort as i only thought about photos half way thro
and after still no sharpening needed
Pile of brush for bonfire cut small to pack and burn well a Pile of bigger logs for camp fires in the garden and a good handfull of Hazel bean sticks
very easy to use very little fatigue no hot spots the long reach made it a lot easier to use than a Billhook for this general work and you would not have used an axe
My silky Big boy was most usfull getting out he branches and stems up to 3-4" but we got the chainsaw out to speed up the hawthorn at 10-12" and cut out he big main bits
this left a pile of branches to deal with so out came my Test Parang which had been to Guana for 6 weeks jungle use by a Discovery film team Medic
this is the only one in the first batch witht he Chris Grant bird Beak left on
other than a quick light sharpen to take the Coating off the edge it was never touched again for the trip and still sharp
Heres about half the Brush i had to sort as i only thought about photos half way thro
and after still no sharpening needed
Pile of brush for bonfire cut small to pack and burn well a Pile of bigger logs for camp fires in the garden and a good handfull of Hazel bean sticks
very easy to use very little fatigue no hot spots the long reach made it a lot easier to use than a Billhook for this general work and you would not have used an axe
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