Machete vs. Survival knives for Heavy Chopping Project Ok, some smart guys strengthen and re-engineer this HF product. They feel it becomes an awesome chopping tool. Pride in your mod is one thing, but putting it on equal footing with a PURE BREED, full-tang chopping tool...is insane. So let's make some clear points: ▶️The Cane Knife shown in video IS A MACHETE RELATIVE! It confuses people because it doesn't look like a traditional jungle chopper (like Indiana Jones). Gavilan Colombian Cane Hook Machete 1074 High - Cutlery USA www.cutleryusa.com/Gavilan-Can-Bush-Machete-21-25778 ▶️ It doesn't matter if you weld the HF knife together - it isn't TIME effective for thick growth cutting. Preparing wood for a fire, yes. Not serious landscape work! ▶️ The Colombian-style tool was sold as a machete. It also goes by cane knife, but it doesn't matter if the natives, who employ it, call it a pineapple. It is a chopping tool. I was sold it as a yard care tool, and it has delivered! ▶️ To take on sticker bushes and thickets, the full tang machete is better designed for the work. SUPERIOR DESIGN. ▶️ For yard work, I wouldn't buy this HF product for chopping when there are better choices. A friend would have chased me out of his yard, LOUDLY, if I brought that HF knife to hack through a Blackberry Bush. You don't bring a knife to a machete job! ▶️In a survival situation, yes, having a strengthened and modified HF knife would be great for chopping EMERGENCY in the wild. LIGHT chopping.
Several folks have resolved the problems of the blade loosening up when chopping or batoning wood, by simply removing the set screw, remove the blade from the handle, mix up some two part JB Weld and cementing the blade back in with it, then ripen the set screw back in and tighten it, set aside for 24 hours for the JB Weld to harden completely. I have done this and am fairly certain I can chop small stuff, to 1” diameter, and baton wood with it with confidence. Incidentally, the saw back is no good for sawing, but if you need to secure a line or some paracord, it cuts a nice groove for that purpose.
Bob, that is a hand held sharpener by United Cutlery. This one will be easier to find: www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Combination-Knife-and-Scissors-Sharpener-48036/100647727#overlay My edge took 52 strokes. But is sharp enough. As long as your expectations are realistic, it should serve you well. I'm happy with mine!
@@daisy880fanaticfixit9 i have 6 of them and I custom painted them. Take that little screw out that holds the blade in place and put some expoy in were it goes to hold the blade in . I even put some in side the handle. It gives it some weight.
⭐️ON MOD EXPERTS⭐️ I consider folks who mod this knife successfully the 1% of customers who buy this product. Similar to the top 1% of the population who controls most of the money in society, this small group of buyers do great things with this knife. This video is DIRECTED at the 99% who break it - almost immediately out of the package. Buyers literally take this knife, as is, and try to landscape with it. They tackle a blackberry bush - or even harder thickets - full on. Bad move, and this HF product doesn't survive. Many try to mod it but don't do it right and destroy it - normally the handle is damaged. Please watch the video below by GIFTED craftsman. He has great skills and humility. Please watch to the end for his final verdict on the product. ruclips.net/video/9ObSb9-uTAE/видео.html Without credible modifications, please don't abuse this partial tang fixed blade. ▶️ DON'T MACHETE ▶️ DON'T CROWBAR ▶️ DON'T BATON ▶️ NOT A THROWING KNIFE
Machete vs. Survival knives for Heavy Chopping Project
Ok, some smart guys strengthen and re-engineer this HF product. They feel it becomes an awesome chopping tool. Pride in your mod is one thing, but putting it on equal footing with a PURE BREED, full-tang chopping tool...is insane.
So let's make some clear points:
▶️The Cane Knife shown in video IS A MACHETE RELATIVE! It confuses people because it doesn't look like a traditional jungle chopper (like Indiana Jones).
Gavilan Colombian Cane Hook Machete 1074 High - Cutlery USA www.cutleryusa.com/Gavilan-Can-Bush-Machete-21-25778
▶️ It doesn't matter if you weld the HF knife together - it isn't TIME effective for thick growth cutting. Preparing wood for a fire, yes. Not serious landscape work!
▶️ The Colombian-style tool was sold as a machete. It also goes by cane knife, but it doesn't matter if the natives, who employ it, call it a pineapple. It is a chopping tool. I was sold it as a yard care tool, and it has delivered!
▶️ To take on sticker bushes and thickets, the full tang machete is better designed for the work. SUPERIOR DESIGN.
▶️ For yard work, I wouldn't buy this HF product for chopping when there are better choices. A friend would have chased me out of his yard, LOUDLY, if I brought that HF knife to hack through a Blackberry Bush. You don't bring a knife to a machete job!
▶️In a survival situation, yes, having a strengthened and modified HF knife would be great for chopping EMERGENCY in the wild. LIGHT chopping.
Several folks have resolved the problems of the blade loosening up when chopping or batoning wood, by simply removing the set screw, remove the blade from the handle, mix up some two part JB Weld and cementing the blade back in with it, then ripen the set screw back in and tighten it, set aside for 24 hours for the JB Weld to harden completely. I have done this and am fairly certain I can chop small stuff, to 1” diameter, and baton wood with it with confidence. Incidentally, the saw back is no good for sawing, but if you need to secure a line or some paracord, it cuts a nice groove for that purpose.
Very well put! On intended purpose of knife your demoing!,thanks for video
What's the brand and model of sharpener?
Bob, that is a hand held sharpener by United Cutlery.
This one will be easier to find:
www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Combination-Knife-and-Scissors-Sharpener-48036/100647727#overlay
My edge took 52 strokes. But is sharp enough. As long as your expectations are realistic, it should serve you well. I'm happy with mine!
@@daisy880fanaticfixit9 i have 6 of them and I custom painted them. Take that little screw out that holds the blade in place and put some expoy in were it goes to hold the blade in . I even put some in side the handle. It gives it some weight.
⭐️ON MOD EXPERTS⭐️
I consider folks who mod this knife successfully the 1% of customers who buy this product. Similar to the top 1% of the population who controls most of the money in society, this small group of buyers do great things with this knife.
This video is DIRECTED at the 99% who break it - almost immediately out of the package.
Buyers literally take this knife, as is, and try to landscape with it. They tackle a blackberry bush - or even harder thickets - full on. Bad move, and this HF product doesn't survive.
Many try to mod it but don't do it right and destroy it - normally the handle is damaged.
Please watch the video below by GIFTED craftsman. He has great skills and humility. Please watch to the end for his final verdict on the product.
ruclips.net/video/9ObSb9-uTAE/видео.html
Without credible modifications, please don't abuse this partial tang fixed blade.
▶️ DON'T MACHETE
▶️ DON'T CROWBAR
▶️ DON'T BATON
▶️ NOT A THROWING KNIFE