Cold Steel Two Handed Machete

Hmmmmmm Wendell... Did you watch "Apocalypse now" last night?

P.S. Have you and Angel been out to Vagabond Brewing yet?
Pretty industrial looking, yet spacious.. 😉

> P.S. Have you and Angel been out to Vagabond Brewing yet?
> Pretty industrial looking, yet spacious.. 😉

Not yet but...it's really close to us so we may have to give it a try. :beer:

Let us know the next time you're going to go there and we'll meet up with ya. 😀

:angel:

I own a cold steel SRK. It's one of the best utility blades I've ever held. As for the '2 handed' model, if it takes two hands it gets a chain saw. I'm too old and twisted up to be hacking at branches...

Who in the hell, other than MLB, would use one of those? 🙂

http://www.amazon.com/Haglof-Swedish-Brush-Axe/dp/B002GCVO64

Much safer.

Derek

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> Much safer.
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Sandvik! Love those.

HA! Apoc. Now was the FIRST thing that popped into my head too. yikes!

I work for a big company, and, a few years ago, we had a field guy come in with his chainsaw cutting chaps torn to pieces from where the chain had bound up in them. It would have torn straight through his leg had he not had the chaps on. He went into the office after work to show the safety man how well they worked... and that was the end of chainsaws.

We have since moved to 2 handed machetes almost universally although most of the supervisors are not willing to fire someone if they hear about a traditional machete. We know they work better in the right hands. After too many "work-loss" accidents from people cutting their thumbs off, the company just decided to handicap everyone and move to brush axes and 2 handed machetes.

http://www.atvyardtrim.com/BeaverBlade.shtml

If I'm going to spend all day cutting, I prefer this....Gives me a little more reach, it's faster, safer and not as tiring.

> Who in the hell, other than MLB, would use one of those? 🙂

Ain't that the truth! Where we work, you would have to cut out a hole in the brush with a regular machete, just to be able to swing that monstrosity.

WILL do!!

I joined their "limited number" Expedition club (fun benefits!) while I was there,at the last minute apparently.

I'd just got done having a "shave biopsy" on my "driving arm" at the doc's office a month or so back... ended up buying a growler to take a bit home for when the pain meds wore off!

I believe they're online in a few places, and on FB as well...

Out by the old Salem Overhead door facility, near the back of the complex, small sign out front on the road. I had to google map them from my phone to find them.

Being the brewery tasting room they have music events, a Yoga class day, and they meet their "kitchen" requirement by having a food truck parked out front. They're into the big screen projector for the Timbers and Blazers, added pool and darts as well recently from what I've heard.

They were a kickstarter startup I believe.

I'll need to re-fill that growler soon with my schedule! Doing a full brake job on the ol' Dodge (after work) between now and Saturday morning when I pick up a trailer to move a small tracter with tiller and mower setup most of the day...

Of course I'll let you two know!! I'm not sure when, but after my schedule for the next few days... I'll need a cold one!

Your a sick man Andy..... I think we'd get on famously... 🙂

I've been dying to try one of these...

This looks like tons of fun,,, especially if I can find some nice green poison oak to spatter everywhere!! (with my luck)

Still want to try one though, we've got wild hawthorns that are spikey crazy nasty trees around here that grow almost as fast as our most famous most famous invasive species the Blackberry vine!

http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/plant/weeds/Pages/profile_himalayanblackberry.aspx

Nothing cuts through black berries like a gas powered pole saw with a hedge trimmer attachment. But it even gets old with that when you are cutting line for 100 x-sections on a 3 mile railroad topo.

As a young man I discovered (quite by accident) that a single match can clear a dozen or so acres of blackberry thicket in minutes...

Only in the summer. Looking forward to 40mm of rain by Saturday in these parts.

I've only used "standard" machetes, but my favorite is a 24" wood handled martindale from England. To me you need your left hand free to bend the brush over while wielding the sword. Who would be able to swing a two handed machete?

https://www.loink.com/product/891/21

I get them from lo-ink out of Maine.