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Posted: 2/12/2024 12:08:26 AM EST
[#1]
Wow. I bought these last year, I don't remember shipping being $20. Am I missing something?
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Posted: 2/12/2024 12:46:21 AM EST
[#2]
I have 2.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 1:03:01 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had two bucket O machete a couple of years ago. I brought them out when the entire extended family was over on Christmas Day. I announced that every adult male member gets a machete. Guys were lined up inspecting and horse trading machetes for an hour. A couple of the ladies wanted one as well, so they got to select one too. I heard compliments about those for the next two Christmases. I didn't tell anyone how cheap they were. My Haitian DIL got so excited when I showed her the bucket. She grabbed one like the one she had growing up. Within 10 minutes, she was out in the woods whacking bushes and everything else. She even took a pic and sent to her mom in Boston. Her mom was like WTF?  Ah, your classic machete thread story! Thread isn't complete without it! |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 5:42:50 AM EST
[#4]
Well this site cost me more money- ordered the 5 machete deal- probably going to give 3 to friends.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 7:40:31 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Let’s clear a blackberry or wild rose patch and see who wins ;) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Because they suck compared to quality loppers? PL 40 https://assets.northerntool.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=2000/products/638/images/638551.jpg Let’s clear a blackberry or wild rose patch and see who wins ;) That's what a Bush Hog is for. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:03:55 AM EST
[#6]
Already got a set of 5 of those Colombian ones. I like this better:
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:08:10 AM EST
[#7]
Out of the batch I bought from that place one was barely passable to keep, one is a loaner I won't worry about getting back and the other three are in the scrap pile for use as flat stock for a future project.
Total waste of money if you want a real machete. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:10:19 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Out of the batch I bought from that place one was barely passable to keep, one is a loaner I won't worry about getting back and the other three are in the scrap pile for use as flat stock for a future project. Total waste of money if you want a real machete. ^^^ Boo this man. Some of them may be in the rough, but the potential is still there, and at a great price. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:36:22 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think I'll buy 500 and put in a machete truck. Kinda like a street taco truck except I'll peddle machetes to new Americans so they can have something to behead wypipos with. If the zombie apocalypse ever arrives, man, you are going to be a king. 
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:53:08 AM EST
[#10]
Hatchets are better.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 8:59:26 AM EST
[#11]
What are we using machetes for, OP?
For trails or clearing blackberries, a battery powered hegemony trimmer is my new best tool.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:00:20 AM EST
[#12]
Because a 60v battery chainsaw spins up instantly with huge torque and no idle noise to alert the victim like a gas chain saw.
Kharn |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:10:47 AM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What are we using machetes for, OP? For trails or clearing blackberries, a battery powered hegemony trimmer is my new best tool. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/217005/dewalt-cordless-hedge-trimmers-dcph820m1-3126654.JPG On the average 10,000 acre Arfcom ranch they're all too far from electricity to recharge so a machete is the clear choice.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:17:30 AM EST
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Out of the batch I bought from that place one was barely passable to keep, one is a loaner I won't worry about getting back and the other three are in the scrap pile for use as flat stock for a future project. Total waste of money if you want a real machete. Say what? I have 20 and all are great machetes of various lengths and weights. They arent lookers, they are tools to be sure. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:19:23 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: On the average 10,000 acre Arfcom ranch they're all too far from electricity to recharge so a machete is the clear choice. Around 200 acres and I am not carrying a pole saw with me when walking a property line or through the woods. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:29:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Around 200 acres and I am not carrying a pole saw with me when walking a property line or through the woods. What are you hacking at? Trails I assume? A battery hedge trimmer IS the better tool. Surgical, precise, fast. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 9:30:38 AM EST
[#17]
Because I have a kukuri.
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Posted: 2/12/2024 10:21:39 AM EST
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I bought one in 2015 to clear some brush from around my house. I have not touched it since. I really don't see much use for one. Power tools work faster and easier. For offensive/defensive purposes, buy a good sword and join a HEMA group. A good swordsman will drop someone with a machete every time.
Quoted: Let’s clear a blackberry or wild rose patch and see who wins ;) My 24" battery powered hedge trimmer that came with a 10' pole. |
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Posted: 2/12/2024 7:52:17 PM EST
[#19]
I ordered, already shipped. I'm kind of curious what will show up.
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Posted: 2/13/2024 10:59:35 AM EST
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I ordered, already shipped. I'm kind of curious what will show up. Should be 5 machetes. |
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Posted: 2/13/2024 11:25:43 AM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Let's clear a blackberry or wild rose patch and see who wins ;) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Because they suck compared to quality loppers? PL 40 https://assets.northerntool.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,width=2000/products/638/images/638551.jpg Let's clear a blackberry or wild rose patch and see who wins ;)
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Posted: 2/15/2024 2:56:04 PM EST
[#22]
Ordered the 5 pack of Machetes from MajorSurplus & Survival. Man these are junk. I definitely got what I paid for…
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Posted: 2/15/2024 3:03:21 PM EST
[#23]
America is full of hardwoods. Axe and chainsaw work better.
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Posted: 2/16/2024 6:18:23 PM EST
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ordered the 5 pack of Machetes from MajorSurplus & Survival. Man these are junk. I definitely got what I paid for… @alpinist Show us what you got |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 7:31:29 AM EST
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Posted: 2/17/2024 7:34:34 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think I'll buy 500 and put in a machete truck. Kinda like a street taco truck except I'll peddle machetes to new Americans so they can have something to behead wypipos with. Might I suggest that you get a liquor license too. You would sell beer and machetes along beaches at lakes, at school basketball games, and just in the neighborhoods on weekends and holidays. Modellos and Machettes. |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 7:53:48 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Might I suggest that you get a liquor license too. You would sell beer and machetes along beaches at lakes, at school basketball games, and just in the neighborhoods on weekends and holidays. Modellos and Machettes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I think I'll buy 500 and put in a machete truck. Kinda like a street taco truck except I'll peddle machetes to new Americans so they can have something to behead wypipos with. Might I suggest that you get a liquor license too. You would sell beer and machetes along beaches at lakes, at school basketball games, and just in the neighborhoods on weekends and holidays. Modellos and Machettes. I like the way you think. I'm in. And when I branch out to offer franchises in Michigan, you'll be at the top of the list. 
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Posted: 2/17/2024 7:59:51 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the way you think. I'm in. And when I branch out to offer franchises in Michigan, you'll be at the top of the list. it's weird being the only white guy in the RGV and being a foot taller than everyone in the RGV.
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Posted: 2/17/2024 8:03:32 AM EST
[#29]
Had some of those, they made great gifts.
I'm on to more expensive and dumber ones nowadays :   |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 8:04:28 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: "Modelos and Machetes" would be a damn fine country song title about my past work adventures in the RGV. it's weird being the only white guy in the RGV and being a foot taller than everyone in the RGV. The chiquitas likely just melt and cream while staring at you with their dirt floor bedroom eyes. |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 8:05:31 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Had some of those, they made great gifts. I'm on to more expensive and dumber ones nowadays :https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/129976/IMG_1342-3091784.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/129976/IMG_1341-3091785.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/129976/IMG_1343-3091783.jpg 
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Posted: 2/17/2024 8:08:50 AM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The chiquitas likely just melt and cream while staring at you with their dirt floor bedroom eyes. my favorite dive bar in the RGV back in the day used to have a little white chickysnack gymnast type working there. let's pretend my favorite dive bar is called "The Bah." there was a facebook page at the time called "I'm In Love With The Waitress At The Bah."
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Posted: 2/17/2024 8:49:18 AM EST
[#33]
I don't live in a jungle, so here's my machete
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Posted: 2/17/2024 9:19:27 AM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can someone please find a link or post a How - to on how to sharpen these damn things? They are super rough out of the box. Basically lawn mower blade sharp. I have tried bench grinder, file followed by sharpening stones, and none of them are as sharp or have as nice of a cutting surface as I would like. Anyone!!! |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 10:26:55 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can someone please find a link or post a How - to on how to sharpen these damn things? They are super rough out of the box. Basically lawn mower blade sharp. I have tried bench grinder, file followed by sharpening stones, and none of them are as sharp or have as nice of a cutting surface as I would like. Anyone!!! It’s a machete not a razor. If you use it you will hit the occasional rock or tree, and often the dirt. Don’t over think it. Sharpen it w/ a smooth grindstone taking care not to burn the edge and maybe a few strokes w/ a file. You aren’t going t butcher a deer w/ it and a courser more chisel shaped profile in conjunction w a thin blade will last longer and work just as well for the tasks a machete excels at. Let the weight, speed, and thin profile do the work. |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 10:55:14 AM EST
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Posted: 2/17/2024 11:06:57 AM EST
[#37]
I don't have anything that was represented to be a machete.
I do have an old, old corn knife out in the garage, which is apparently the product of convergent evolution. The several that were stuck away on the farm when I was a kid were the subject of some confusion when I started asking the older generations about the reason why they had some machetes in one of the outbuildings where they stored old, outmoded stuff. |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 11:39:16 AM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Near the front door, grab one as you head out into the zombie outbreak. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/113073/IMG_5760_jpeg-3132096.JPG  |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 12:14:25 PM EST
[#39]
Yeah. WTF
I was about to order 10 more but shipping is $31 |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 12:15:50 PM EST
[#40]
I have five. They get sharpened as I need them. Thirty seconds on the belt sander and then another ten seconds on the bench grinder and I'm a leg chopper offer.
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Posted: 2/17/2024 12:22:46 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I have a couple but I’ve never really found a use for one that some other tool didn’t do better. Same. Got one hanging on wall in garage. Been there for decades. Eventually, I'll toss it in trash. I have no use for one |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 12:36:50 PM EST
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:07:15 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Every man needs a bucket ‘O machetes.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6755/unnamed-2933131.jpg  |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:12:54 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The machete: right arm of the third world 
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:16:07 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Because a 60v battery chainsaw spins up instantly with huge torque and no idle noise to alert the victim like a gas chain saw. Kharny |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:23:49 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Near the front door, grab one as you head out into the zombie outbreak. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/113073/IMG_5760_jpeg-3132096.JPG 
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:26:11 PM EST
[#47]
Say "goodbye" creep!
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:28:29 PM EST
[#48]
I have five and a tomahawk . Two for home defense cold steel kirkuri style . Since a gun permit takes a while .
 Three workhorse machetes for brush, branches, and small trees . Also an axe , sledgehammer , and various chainsaws when appropriate . The landscaping work down here is never done . |
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:29:33 PM EST
[#49]
Parangs are better than machetes.
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Posted: 2/17/2024 2:34:22 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: To be fair, we have nothing resembling jungles in our mountainous desert. Chainsaws are our machetes. Exactly what I was thinking as I stare at Glacier NP out my windows on the beautiful, crisp winter day. |
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