Thanks for this video, these blades do not get a lot of attention. We use one in the garden for planting bushes in rocky terrain. Very handy. About 30 clams on Amazon (25 euros or so). Wooden handle, full tang, stainless blade. I did not like the serrations on ours, they were too fragile and ran all the way to the tip - my wife immediately cut her off hand with it (no gloves, pulling on roots with her left hand and digging/stabbing through them with the hori hori at the same time). I took them off and then replaced them with hand-filed sawteeth similar to those on a chainsaw, for the pull cut, leaving the tip on that side unserrated and unsharpened. That way the risk of hurting your off hand is slightly less. It does not replace a real saw or a real good knife, but for digging out roots and planting vegetables etc. it is a great tool. I can see this as the favorite tool of a truffel farmer (you know, these horribly expensive underground mushroom things they search for using dogs or dwarf pigs). It would make a great tool for digging cat holes during a trip into the woods, clearing space around a tent or shelter and such. You can delimb and debark with it but the edge is too thick for real fine knife tasks, and the saw is not suitable for say cutting through a sizeable log, but very useful for notching. Ours came in a pretty decent thick leather sheath, I'd say they are good value for money.
It surely is a good value for the money. It’s an extremely versatile tool, as you’ve demonstrated with the examples in your comment. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the reminder... I'm familiar with the Hori-Hori, and used the concept to seek a survival hand "shovel" (in name only) that has many of the qualities of the Hori-Hori. I used the concept, but forgot the principle... Thanks for the wake up call... Good vid!
I've had one for about ten years .... has become indispensable for my work (I'm a gardener) ... Don't think I would add it to my wilderness kit though .... I do carry a folding hand trowel though for digging tasks.
I have used a hori hori for several years, I use and abuse mine. I actually have an inexpensive one with a heavy plastic handle, the a bit higher quality with the hardwood handle and full tang, they both take quite a beating. I use for the traditional gardening tasks, but also great for rock hounding. Much smaller than a shovel and handles most tasks, I do try to keep at least one of them sharpened. Obviously you can't expect it to keep a sharp edge if used for digging, but it still a versatile tool.
I seen this knife in my pinterest, I was browsing Japanese Knives. seen the design and thought right away, as you, that it will make a. excellent addition to bushcrafting. I am glad to have seen your video! thumbs up!
I am getting this, as a mater gerdener this is ideal. I have a mora 510, and a shrade F10 spear point, and a fiskers X7 hatchette, light strong and useful tools are what I carry.
Brilliant video. Im only here because I saw a Hori Hori on a gardening website and immediately thought "I reckon that would be great for bushcraft!". I think its one of those overlapping tools that will be perfect depending on the situation. Eg if you are camping somewhere and you need a trowel, but a trenching tool is a bit much. Personally I normally take extremely tough, plastic trowels for "doing my business" but if I was on a trip that was higher risk or longer, I would trade the weight for one of these.
Interesting tool. I am always trying to find "bushcraft uses" to everything. I always use a Mora knife, an axe an a folding saw. That is what i like most, but is always good to try new tools. Regards from Argentina!!!!
I like people who think outside the box. Was looking for a multi-use trowel while out on the trail. Nows all I gotta do is find it with a plastic handle.
Nice tool, have heard of them before but never even thought about their usefulness as a bushcraft tool. You are making me miss those east coast Autumn leaves :) Have you tried sharpening it up? I wonder how hard it would be given the concave blade. Great idea none the less!
How easy is it to sharpen? I just bought a book on wild edibles and this is a suggested tool, so I'm very interested in getting one. Thanks for the demo!
Duluth Trading Co. carries this knife for $28.95. I've used one for years, it's a very good sturdy tool. With a little work, you van get a decent edge on the knife side. I rut a lanyard through the handle hole and I put ranger bands on the handle for a better grip.
I saw an ad for this knife on my social media. The Fiskars is $30 with a life time warranty and the amazon is $20 looks the same? But I immediately was curious of its possible hiking / camping and bush craft applications. I like that it looks a bit more like a tool BUT you could use it to defend yourself. My brother used to sharpen one side of his trench shovel. This looks very interesting. I think the only issue is under hard use that blade might cause unusual twisting or indexing? It also seems to be made out of a very good steel with full tang for a fraction of the cost a name brand knife would cost. Your video helped a lot. thanks.
Thanks for commenting. The pack is the Mountainsmith Tour Lumber Pack with the optional Straps. Carries the weight down at your hips. Very comfortable, strong and roomy for its size.
On the saw aspect, the concave will prevent you from cutting through thick stuff, I'm not sure how much more effective this is as a digging tool compared to a wide bushcraft type knife for example??
The sawing is definitely its weak point, but once you get the hang of adjusting your wrist it performs as well as the saw in my Swiss Army knife. As a digging tool, it really shines.
I stumbled onto this knife myself and thought it would make a great outdoors knife and I might want to ad it to my stuff and be able to replace some things. your video is the only one I could find that did an outdoors use general review. thank you. now I think I definitely will be buying one. But which one...
+Lonewolfsurvival Then you should be quite happy with this tool. Make sure you look at the handle. The knives that are full tang have 3 brass pins. The cheaper ones with the half tang only have 2.
Just got one of these, and waiting for the rain to eventually stop, so I can give it a try, lol,, I don't know how I missed your video, till now, or I'd have got one of these years ago,,, !! It looks handy, for all the rough jobs, that you don't want to use your "best" knife for,, ha ha.. (ps,, there's a lot of very poor videos, about these, yours is about the best,,) Best regards,, John....
kabaruser That's the Mountainsmith Day Lumbar Pack. It's awesome. You can pick it up at REI or Amazon, but be sure if you get it to also buy the optional "strapettes," which turn it into a backpack. Without those straps it's just a Lumbar pack and not able to carry as much.
Ok thank you I can't find a pack just the right size or its to big I'm going nuts trying need one just a bit bigger then a butt pack but not by much thank you
Ok brother, have a beef, I've been a knife collector and outdoorsman since the late 70s. My wife has used the Hori Hori for decades as well. So, yes, knife guys do know about this knife so a little credit maybe? Note, digging in the dirt with this knife dulls it fast, and you're going to need to buy a small stone or ceramic stick to keep with it (you get used to sharpening the strange curved profile and it's easier with a smaller stone) and for hard use you're going to need to resharpen it often (but they typically are not very sharp anyway). Also, the saw edge is for managing relatively small roots, not for sawing dry wood.
@@weekendwanderer5514 HAHAHA! WW, I'm 70 years old and thinking out of the box just ain't part of my generation and best to stick to what makes sense. Now, I ain't saying you can't teach an old dog like me new tricks, you just can't reasonably expect them to remember them when it counts.
+Weekend Wanderer thank you. Those are all come from Shenzhen. Having the same nylon sheaths. That's why it is not among Nisaku products in Japanese part of the Internet.
Great for "getting rid of" number #2 in the bush. The number of times I have found toilet waste just off the trail, oh boy! Obviously many, many more "knife" uses as well, but no one likes to dig a hole with their $200.00 knife. Even as a gift for your wife (which you may borrow at camping time).
Great Tool but for bushcraft?🤔 I don't know depends wot bushcraft related tasks your talking about. I can't imagine you would be able to baton with this due to the thin serrated edge that would destroy your baton in seconds not to mention the concave shape of the blade would probably fold inwards after a while if pounded on. Delicate carving tasks or push cut using the thumb pushing the spine on the blade to do notching is also a no no with this knife because of the long serated edge. So no flat spots to do that either. However for a digging tool & clearing aid then this would suit especially digging a fire pit or dakota as mentioned. I would replace my much heavier trenching tool for this hori hori as I think it would be better & lighter. But for bushcraft I would have to get one & do a full review on it
My U.K. friends tell me that just about everything with any kind of blade is illegal there and that may apply to this tool. I couldn't find it on Amazon U.K. 😥
Every knife is legal here in the U.K. if you have a valid reason to carry it. So if you're using it to garden fine. If it's in your backpack with your other camping equipment then also fine. The only knives you can carry without reason are non locking folding knives with a cutting edge of three inches or less. Under no circumstances can you carry any knife as a means of self defence as this automatically makes it an offensive weapon.
W.W.--Your comment about the curved trowel blade found on most hori hori prompted me to continue my search for a bushwhacker.Check out the hh at barebonesliving.com. This is not a trowel. As Crocodile Dundee said when mugged (not) in the NY subway "Now this, this is a knife (noyf)" Features: unique handle design; steel cap on the end of the handle for driving tent stakes, etc.; heavy stainless steel; virtually no curvature. Would also be good for a GHS (Get Home Safe) kit in the car if you live outside a metropolitan area. And, the Company is involved with helping the third world.Only drawback: so sharp that you must figure out what to make/use as a scabbard--not included with tool--to prevent injury to YOURSELF.Thanks for helping me down the path to finding the right stuff. And, thank you for actually using the word "onomatopoeia" on the interweb. I believe that makes up for at least 100 billion instances of people confusing the words "your" and "you're" . SHB
I guess . . . . I mean, the whole idea of day hiking is the walking part. Food generally doesn't require a fire and most places don't allow it. Most of the branches this thing can cut can be done by hand. I can dig with a sharp stick. I don't know . . . . this looks like another gee-whiz idea looking for a purpose. Bushcrafting has become all about introducing the Next New Thing so someone can profit off your gullibility. It sucks.
I'm sure "your" going to like it if you invest in it--at $29.99+shipping it gives a lot of 'cut for the buck'.BTW--I probably overestimated the number of times (100 billion) that the words "your" and "you're" have been interchanged on the internet throughout the years . After all, there are 'only' about 300 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. However, our Galaxy is very old, so the internet still has plenty of time to catch up in terms of poor grammar and spelling.
Thanks for this video, these blades do not get a lot of attention. We use one in the garden for planting bushes in rocky terrain. Very handy. About 30 clams on Amazon (25 euros or so). Wooden handle, full tang, stainless blade. I did not like the serrations on ours, they were too fragile and ran all the way to the tip - my wife immediately cut her off hand with it (no gloves, pulling on roots with her left hand and digging/stabbing through them with the hori hori at the same time). I took them off and then replaced them with hand-filed sawteeth similar to those on a chainsaw, for the pull cut, leaving the tip on that side unserrated and unsharpened. That way the risk of hurting your off hand is slightly less. It does not replace a real saw or a real good knife, but for digging out roots and planting vegetables etc. it is a great tool. I can see this as the favorite tool of a truffel farmer (you know, these horribly expensive underground mushroom things they search for using dogs or dwarf pigs). It would make a great tool for digging cat holes during a trip into the woods, clearing space around a tent or shelter and such. You can delimb and debark with it but the edge is too thick for real fine knife tasks, and the saw is not suitable for say cutting through a sizeable log, but very useful for notching. Ours came in a pretty decent thick leather sheath, I'd say they are good value for money.
It surely is a good value for the money. It’s an extremely versatile tool, as you’ve demonstrated with the examples in your comment. Thanks for watching!
That’s a great idea you came up with!👍😵💫
👍 Interesting tool. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the reminder... I'm familiar with the Hori-Hori, and used the concept to seek a survival hand "shovel" (in name only) that has many of the qualities of the Hori-Hori. I used the concept, but forgot the principle... Thanks for the wake up call... Good vid!
awesome, thank you for
your report.
I've had one for about ten years .... has become indispensable for my work (I'm a gardener) ... Don't think I would add it to my wilderness kit though .... I do carry a folding hand trowel though for digging tasks.
I have used a hori hori for several years, I use and abuse mine. I actually have an inexpensive one with a heavy plastic handle, the a bit higher quality with the hardwood handle and full tang, they both take quite a beating. I use for the traditional gardening tasks, but also great for rock hounding. Much smaller than a shovel and handles most tasks, I do try to keep at least one of them sharpened. Obviously you can't expect it to keep a sharp edge if used for digging, but it still a versatile tool.
I seen this knife in my pinterest, I was browsing Japanese Knives. seen the design and thought right away, as you, that it will make a. excellent addition to bushcrafting. I am glad to have seen your video! thumbs up!
Thanks my friend. As long as you don't try to baton with it, it's a great knife.
Nice knife, it has many applications in bushcraft.
where did you purchase the hori hori from. The few places where I've seen this. it's always a half tang
I am getting this, as a mater gerdener this is ideal. I have a mora 510, and a shrade F10 spear point, and a fiskers X7 hatchette, light strong and useful tools are what I carry.
Brilliant video.
Im only here because I saw a Hori Hori on a gardening website and immediately thought "I reckon that would be great for bushcraft!". I think its one of those overlapping tools that will be perfect depending on the situation. Eg if you are camping somewhere and you need a trowel, but a trenching tool is a bit much. Personally I normally take extremely tough, plastic trowels for "doing my business" but if I was on a trip that was higher risk or longer, I would trade the weight for one of these.
I've heard of the hori hori, but this is the first demonstration I've seen. Definitely more useful than just as a garden shovel. Thanks.
Really the only thing you can't do with it is baton. Thanks for watching.
I have the same knife with a different brand name but, they are fantastic and indispensable.
Interesting tool. Haven't seen this before.
Interesting tool. I am always trying to find "bushcraft uses" to everything.
I always use a Mora knife, an axe an a folding saw. That is what i like most, but is always good to try new tools.
Regards from Argentina!!!!
Thanks, my friend. I share your approach--always experimenting!
I like people who think outside the box. Was looking for a multi-use trowel while out on the trail. Nows all I gotta do is find it with a plastic handle.
Gunter Patee:- take the rivets out and put on your own handle of plastic, cork or whatever.
It actually means dig, dig. I love this tool first used it in Maui on an organic farm I worked on.
Thanks!
Great vid, I want one! (maybe 2 )
I do have one. It isn't full tang but I've had it a few yrs and hasn't broken yet. Should work fine for burying your poop.
Nice tool, have heard of them before but never even thought about their usefulness as a bushcraft tool. You are making me miss those east coast Autumn leaves :) Have you tried sharpening it up? I wonder how hard it would be given the concave blade. Great idea none the less!
I'm sure you could sharpen it, but I wanted to test it right out of the box. The leaves are pretty, but the snow is around the corner!
How easy is it to sharpen? I just bought a book on wild edibles and this is a suggested tool, so I'm very interested in getting one. Thanks for the demo!
Just a few passes with a file is all it takes--very easy! It's made of a very hard steel so it stays sharp for a long time.
But with the concave shape of the blade how well would it baton, and is it any good at making feather sticks?
It's gonna be garbage at batoning, and doing so is gonna damage the serrated edge.
All tools have their pros and cons.
Duluth Trading Co. carries this knife for $28.95. I've used one for years, it's a very good sturdy tool. With a little work, you van get a decent edge on the knife side. I rut a lanyard through the handle hole and I put ranger bands on the handle for a better grip.
I saw an ad for this knife on my social media. The Fiskars is $30 with a life time warranty and the amazon is $20 looks the same? But I immediately was curious of its possible hiking / camping and bush craft applications. I like that it looks a bit more like a tool BUT you could use it to defend yourself. My brother used to sharpen one side of his trench shovel. This looks very interesting. I think the only issue is under hard use that blade might cause unusual twisting or indexing? It also seems to be made out of a very good steel with full tang for a fraction of the cost a name brand knife would cost. Your video helped a lot. thanks.
It looks like it could be very useful tool. What is that pack you have on that looked pretty cool. atb John
Thanks for commenting. The pack is the Mountainsmith Tour Lumber Pack with the optional Straps. Carries the weight down at your hips. Very comfortable, strong and roomy for its size.
Very useful crossover application for a tool. Thank you.Full tang is rare. What brand are you using?
The brand is Lifewell. Amazon has it. Keep in mind though that because the blade is curved you can't baton with it.
Far more useful that just a plain old spade for digging ground toilets or smaller fire pits. Compromise on the weight for usefulness factor.
On the saw aspect, the concave will prevent you from cutting through thick stuff, I'm not sure how much more effective this is as a digging tool compared to a wide bushcraft type knife for example??
The sawing is definitely its weak point, but once you get the hang of adjusting your wrist it performs as well as the saw in my Swiss Army knife. As a digging tool, it really shines.
Love my hori hori!
love your dog i have the same bread lol made my day
+Brian Conroy Thank you my friend. Unfortunately, he succumbed to cancer about 8 months ago. I sure do miss him! Stay well.
hello!
i am from japan!
thank you for youse my country kinfe!
I stumbled onto this knife myself and thought it would make a great outdoors knife and I might want to ad it to my stuff and be able to replace some things. your video is the only one I could find that did an outdoors use general review. thank you. now I think I definitely will be buying one. But which one...
Keep in mind that because of the curvature of the blade you can't baton with it if that's important to you.
+Weekend Wanderer naw I keep a tomahawk on my right thigh whenever I'm out. Forget batoning that's stupid ;)
+Lonewolfsurvival Then you should be quite happy with this tool. Make sure you look at the handle. The knives that are full tang have 3 brass pins. The cheaper ones with the half tang only have 2.
+Weekend Wanderer will do, thank you. Yeah already looked into them. gonna go with a carbon still for a little extra strength.
Cool knovel.
+cyclist01222 It's a knade man. A cool Knool.
Just got one of these, and waiting for the rain to eventually stop, so I can give it a try, lol,, I don't know how I missed your video, till now, or I'd have got one of these years ago,,, !!
It looks handy, for all the rough jobs, that you don't want to use your "best" knife for,, ha ha..
(ps,, there's a lot of very poor videos, about these, yours is about the best,,)
Best regards,, John....
Thanks John. Made that video 4 years ago and I still have the tool and it gets a lot of use.
I have to ask where did you get that pack ?
kabaruser That's the Mountainsmith Day Lumbar Pack. It's awesome. You can pick it up at REI or Amazon, but be sure if you get it to also buy the optional "strapettes," which turn it into a backpack. Without those straps it's just a Lumbar pack and not able to carry as much.
Ok thank you I can't find a pack just the right size or its to big I'm going nuts trying need one just a bit bigger then a butt pack but not by much thank you
Ok brother, have a beef, I've been a knife collector and outdoorsman since the late 70s. My wife has used the Hori Hori for decades as well. So, yes, knife guys do know about this knife so a little credit maybe? Note, digging in the dirt with this knife dulls it fast, and you're going to need to buy a small stone or ceramic stick to keep with it (you get used to sharpening the strange curved profile and it's easier with a smaller stone) and for hard use you're going to need to resharpen it often (but they typically are not very sharp anyway). Also, the saw edge is for managing relatively small roots, not for sawing dry wood.
Try to think outside the box once in a while.
@@weekendwanderer5514 HAHAHA! WW, I'm 70 years old and thinking out of the box just ain't part of my generation and best to stick to what makes sense. Now, I ain't saying you can't teach an old dog like me new tricks, you just can't reasonably expect them to remember them when it counts.
@@weekendwanderer5514 Oh, and thanks for taking the time to reply brother. Stay safe out there and stay strong.
Same to you my friend.
Having 堀堀ナイフ as a search pattern I can't find a full tang knife with 3 rivets. What brand name is that? Thank you
It seems it is Oakridge Gardens tools hori hori, right?
+akai Lifewell Garden Products Hori Hori. Amazon has it.
+Weekend Wanderer thank you. Those are all come from Shenzhen. Having the same nylon sheaths. That's why it is not among Nisaku products in Japanese part of the Internet.
+akai You can also try an American company: barebonesliving.com. They have a good one.
+Weekend Wanderer thank you. Just bought Nisaku 651 limited edition HRC-58
www.nisaku.co.jp/njc/garden/knife/0651-LeisureKnifeD/0651.html
Great for "getting rid of" number #2 in the bush. The number of times I have found toilet waste just off the trail, oh boy! Obviously many, many more "knife" uses as well, but no one likes to dig a hole with their $200.00 knife. Even as a gift for your wife (which you may borrow at camping time).
This is clearly thinking "outside the box". At the very least, it is worth considering.
Not good for sawing but I have one and really like it.
Great Tool but for bushcraft?🤔
I don't know depends wot bushcraft related tasks your talking about.
I can't imagine you would be able to baton with this due to the thin serrated edge that would destroy your baton in seconds not to mention the concave shape of the blade would probably fold inwards after a while if pounded on.
Delicate carving tasks or push cut using the thumb pushing the spine on the blade to do notching is also a no no with this knife because of the long serated edge.
So no flat spots to do that either.
However for a digging tool & clearing aid then this would suit especially digging a fire pit or dakota as mentioned.
I would replace my much heavier trenching tool for this hori hori as I think it would be better & lighter.
But for bushcraft I would have to get one & do a full review on it
Would they be legal in the U.K ?
My U.K. friends tell me that just about everything with any kind of blade is illegal there and that may apply to this tool. I couldn't find it on Amazon U.K. 😥
Every knife is legal here in the U.K. if you have a valid reason to carry it. So if you're using it to garden fine. If it's in your backpack with your other camping equipment then also fine. The only knives you can carry without reason are non locking folding knives with a cutting edge of three inches or less. Under no circumstances can you carry any knife as a means of self defence as this automatically makes it an offensive weapon.
If you're going to carry that thing hiking I would check state laws...you could very well get into some BIG problems with the po-po of varying flavor
The Dakota Fire Pit does definitely require a shovel or spade, trust me. lol
Bwahahahaha! So glad you caught that.
LOL. We learnt the hard way. lmao
Great for metal detecting
I dang done did learn me one of them rel big big words: autonampita!
I miss that dog beside you :(
H20 STEVEXD Thank you my friend, so do I. Gone almost a year now and I think about him every day. Stay well.
Awesome how you actually pronounced "hori hori" correctly!
これどっからホリホリって呼称が使われるようになったんだろう。ベアボーンズリビングからかな？
ホームセンターとかでこういうの腐るほど見かけるけど単に「園芸用ナイフ」としか書かれてないし。
W.W.--Your comment about the curved trowel blade found on most hori hori prompted me to continue my search for a bushwhacker.Check out the hh at barebonesliving.com. This is not a trowel. As Crocodile Dundee said when mugged (not) in the NY subway "Now this, this is a knife (noyf)" Features: unique handle design; steel cap on the end of the handle for driving tent stakes, etc.; heavy stainless steel; virtually no curvature. Would also be good for a GHS (Get Home Safe) kit in the car if you live outside a metropolitan area. And, the Company is involved with helping the third world.Only drawback: so sharp that you must figure out what to make/use as a scabbard--not included with tool--to prevent injury to YOURSELF.Thanks for helping me down the path to finding the right stuff. And, thank you for actually using the word "onomatopoeia" on the interweb. I believe that makes up for at least 100 billion instances of people confusing the words "your" and "you're" . SHB
Thanks for the comment--made me laugh at the end. That hori hori in the link looks like a quality blade. I may have to get one. Stay well.
I guess . . . . I mean, the whole idea of day hiking is the walking part. Food generally doesn't require a fire and most places don't allow it. Most of the branches this thing can cut can be done by hand. I can dig with a sharp stick.
I don't know . . . . this looks like another gee-whiz idea looking for a purpose. Bushcrafting has become all about introducing the Next New Thing so someone can profit off your gullibility. It sucks.
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Why you have to dig with a knife? To resharp it 15 time a day? Just bring with you a little gardening shovel.
You missed the entire point of the video. It is a gardening shovel.
Weekend Wanderer ah, ok, now i get it!
...why you have to cut things with a shovel? Just bring with you q little knife!
@@marcoclementi9067 Lol!
Gaulteria @ 3:00
Its a kunai x
Battoning, please!
I don't think it would baton due to the curvature of the blade.
It’s a no for me everything done in the video can be done with a regular knife
handy tool put I wouldn't pry at all with it. Most just snap into. I'd pay twice for a real carbon steal made in America one.
I will order one if they guaranteed a Japanese women with each order.lol I like it good tool
I'm sure "your" going to like it if you invest in it--at $29.99+shipping it gives a lot of 'cut for the buck'.BTW--I probably overestimated the number of times (100 billion) that the words "your" and "you're" have been interchanged on the internet throughout the years . After all, there are 'only' about 300 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. However, our Galaxy is very old, so the internet still has plenty of time to catch up in terms of poor grammar and spelling.
Well, if you count the billions of stars contained in all of the other galaxies your estimate is actually quite conservative!