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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:16:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:17:28 AM EDT
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nah
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:18:52 AM EDT
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What did you chop down? A metal fence post? 
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:19:17 AM EDT
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reviews say it sucks.
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:20:07 AM EDT
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Quoted: What did you chop down? A metal fence post? I don't have one, but there are a lot more pics like that one |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:32:33 AM EDT
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Your better of with one of the cheap Brazilian machetes.
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:46:08 AM EDT
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If you want a solid hunk of metal that will chop though just about anything and cheap enough that if you fuck it up you wont care.
Get this: http://www.amazon.com/BudK-Genuine-Gurkha-Kukri-Knife/dp/B000UUBFDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371307170&sr=8-1&keywords=bud+k+kukri 
It comes completely unsharpened and you will have to put the bevel it on yourself but trust me its a tank. |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 6:48:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:09:21 AM EDT
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I like the cutlass but its still hard to beat the 22" Ontario G.I. for durability, and it takes an edge very well. the one in the pic is over 20 years old and still gets a lot of use
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http://www.amazon.com/Ontario-22-Gi-Govt-Machete/dp/B001ANG4S8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371309151&sr=8-1&keywords=22%22+ontario+GI+machete |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:12:07 AM EDT
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If I was bushwhacking a trail, I'd want something longer than the cutlass, but for things that most people actually do I think the cutlass is a better tool
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:15:51 AM EDT
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SOG is junk. This is actually my machete. Split in half on a swing into some harder wood. SOG sent me another and I sold it for $20.
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:23:05 AM EDT
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That is probably why my 22"machete gets a lot of use we have a infestation of buckthorn around here and every time I use the shorter blade I find myself doing the jump and chop. The cutlass is definitely more portable and useful for camp and gp and compared to some of the fashionable machetes out there its hard to beat the price
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:25:48 AM EDT
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This would server you better.
Woodsmans pal 
I use one of these occasionally as well. Condor 
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:38:40 AM EDT
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This would server you better. snip Both of those are great quality wise and usefulness but you can get two KBAR cutlasses and 3 Ontario machetes for the price of those two. I know you get what you pay for but my machetes get beat to crap and they still work perfectly fine. |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:42:40 AM EDT
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Quoted:
SOG is junk. This is actually my machete. Split in half on a swing into some harder wood. SOG sent me another and I sold it for $20. It sucks that SOG can make one of the best multitools in my opinion but all of their other stuff seems to be chinese junk except for a couple of their older model knives  |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:43:35 AM EDT
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Mine looks exactly like that too!
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:44:02 AM EDT
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Quoted:
If you want a solid hunk of metal that will chop though just about anything and cheap enough that if you fuck it up you wont care. Get this: http://www.amazon.com/BudK-Genuine-Gurkha-Kukri-Knife/dp/B000UUBFDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371307170&sr=8-1&keywords=bud+k+kukri http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5135je5FJeL.jpg It comes completely unsharpened and you will have to put the bevel it on yourself but trust me its a tank. I have a Authentic Khukuri with the Karda and Chakmak, It was given to me by a British Soldier during RV89 in Wainwright AB. And your right... It will chop through anything and hold an edge longer than anything else I own. |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 7:51:03 AM EDT
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I have a SOG Fusion tomahawk, and that thing is pretty beast. It's punched through car doors, hoods, trunk lids, trees, and all sorts of other things,
all without breakage. On the flip side, I got a SOG Fielder knife for Christmas, and the clip fell apart within two weeks...
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Posted: 6/15/2013 8:04:55 AM EDT
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I want one of those that islanders use to chop coconuts.
Thick hardy steel. Not flimsy crap or brittle BS. |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 8:07:53 AM EDT
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For around the same price, Tramontina makes machetes that are made for, and used by, people that actually work with them... Not fancy fantasy pigchoppers with brittle blades made to look badass.
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Posted: 6/15/2013 8:20:19 AM EDT
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I want one of those that islanders use to chop coconuts. Thick hardy steel. Not flimsy crap or brittle BS. Traditional machetes aren't thick. They're thinner and flexible. GI machetes, while head and shoulders better than a lot of the fantasy garbage and chinese two buck mistakes, do sometimes break because they're too thick and stiff. Tramontina, Imacasa, Hansa, all of them are cheaper than most fancy showoff "machetes". All are thinner in the blade. All have some spring to them, and will outlast blades made by people unfamiliar with the machete that seek to "improve" it. The machete's form is the result of hundreds of years and countless lifetimes of humble work by poor folks that couldn't replace their tools every week if they wanted to. While we all probably did better on our SATs than they would, they do know more about the machete than we do. |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 9:11:21 AM EDT
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The golok been cutting bush and bamboo for hundreds of years.
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Posted: 6/15/2013 9:13:11 AM EDT
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please don't waste your money i had a thread on here awhile ago with pitchers i chipped the blade cutting 1/4" thick branches absolute worthless piece of crap |
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Posted: 6/15/2013 9:20:33 AM EDT
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Nearly any other machete or woods tool would be better than that, except maybe the $10 generic wal mart one.
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