What blade is best for cutting through branches, vines, and other annoying overgrowths?
Biggest knife I have still struggles to cut though vines or anything with fiber, so I'm trying to figure out if it would be best to buy a machete, kukri, hatchet, or something else.
when it comes to this kind of thing you really cant beat a billhook or machete. kurkis are expensive, heavy gimmicks and hatchets are inept at cutting anything below 2" in diameter. good brands for machetes include Tramontina, OKC, Gavillan de Incolma, and Fiskars. the only billhooks i have ever used have been either a locally-made no name or Fiskars, both being good.
Condor makes a stainless steel parang machete...it's probably the best chopper on the market. I have the non stainless version and I have to do maintenance on it even when not using it because I live in a very wet environment...i still love mine and use it all the feking time.
In my opinion, Condors are far too expensive for what they are, being machetes. an $80 condor is gonna do exactly the same stuff as a $20 Tramontina.
Tramontane doesn't make a parang style and they don't make stainless. An 80dollar condor will last forever and requitre much less attention. You get what you pay for.
From left to right:
Waylett from 1960
Ontario knife: 1990
Condor: 2019
The condor is hands down a better chopper than the other two...again, I just wish it was stainless.
What kind of blade/style/whatever is the condor called? I need one exactly like that.
I herd in some goats into the area and come back in a week.
Honestly OP, a battery powered weed whacker with a 6ah battery and a saw blade attachment, makes quick work of any bullshit in your way and you don't waste precious hydration by hacking and swiping for hours.
Tell me you live in a city without telling me you live in a city.
For a rural property owner this is the right answer.
>Has a manicured lawn in the middle of a forest
...ok boomer
Go troll somewhere else homosexual.
>nail
>head
I didn't realize telling the truth was trolling--I manage a lot of forests and by manage I mean remove invasive species, clean up trash, and leave everything else alone.
The only people that claim to be "rural" but need a weed wacker are boomers who move in, cut down everything around the house and plant grass and other non native species.
You're mad because I'm right.
I dint care enough about the opinions of zoomer nitwits larping about “forest management” to be mad. I’ve got acres of land and a ton of blackberries/weeds to clear, I’m not going to use a hand tool for that, sorry if that upsets you pumpkin.
But I’m guessing you’re referring to being on a sheriff’s work crew for shoplifting or a dui or something. Clean it up.
The weeds are are result of your shit land management, boomer.
I'm glad you have to point me out as a villain as you're obviously a moron who knows jack shit about your native biome.
It's a parang and it cuts better than the longer ones by far. I bought it because it fit in my gardening kit and now it's all I use.
this shits the way to go, shares a battery with all my other tools including my qt chainsaw, while it's annoying to monkey around for miles with both, it's well worth it. I already spend most my days chopping firewood, I really don't wanna chop more than I need to.
belt hatchet helps a lot too.
lol
they are literally called brush attachments, what do you think they are for?
>I manage a lot of forests and by manage I mean yap yap yap
no you don't lmao
you'd know about brush cutters
We get it, you're moron and spend all your energy fighting back the forest so you can have a boomer lawn. No one cares, people who actually know non boomer land management don't need your chink power tools.
You do what's called "industrial clearing"
because you're moronic
I do permaculture because I'm not moronic and I do probably 1/4 the work with easily 4x the yield--keep seething and buying those chink chemicals and chink power-tools while you slowly destroy the land because you're clearly that kind of boomer.
>I do permaculture
You're a larper playing around the back yard of your < quarter acre suburban lot.
Yes
You don't know shit about forests, I don't need any more proof but there it is.
tell us more about your pristine lawn in the middle of your "rural" lot
>I own something therefore I'm right
lol, ok boomer
Lol, okay city parasite.
Mods, can you permaban this obnoxious little discord troony? Every thread he infests immediately goes to shit.
>REEE BAN HIM FOR TELLING THE TRUTH
yes, censorship is your only opttion because the more you talk about your land management the more obvious it is you don't know anything about succession, soil, biodiversity .. or anything really other than --machine go brrrr
You’re arguing with like 5 different anons- and losing, badly.
Post a pic of your land, city parasite.
...what argument?
you're a parasite reinforcing your delusions; there was never an argument. You're just coming up with cope after cope for the fact that you don't know anything about forests or trees or land managment and you have other boomers that watch as much TV as you do saying the same moronation--is that what you're arguing about?
>reee I'm not a parasite and neither are those other parasites reeee
To accept your concession, city parasite 🙂
>NO YOU
that's usually the best you idiots can do
you don't know what same gayging is, boomer
Aww the city parasite is mad he got called out. Sad.
>If I complexly change the subject from the topic I keep getting intellectually owned on I WIN
every time
But I want to hear more about your manicured lawn in your "rural" homestead? I want to hear about how you keep killing the deciduous trees (totally ignoring canopy trees) and wounder why you have "weeds"
come now, this is what you're reduced too? Tired used memes? you're more pathetic than I could have imagined.
Post a pic of your “land”, city parasite.
>I won the argument reee
eh what argument
>Show me a picture reee
it would be nothing but trees and underbrush and there is about 12 acres--so what would be the point?
>I don't want to talk about land management anymore reee
>I don't even want to mention species succession because I don't know what that is
wow, big mad boomer has lost it
So then post it, I mean for all your shittalking it would be interesting to see what a bonafide land management genius has accomplished
But you won’t, because you’re a 20 something, city parasite nitwit.
...the fact that you're asking me to take a picture of forest restoration just makes clear you don't know anything about what your talking about at all.
>NO YOU"RE THE PARASITE
i really struck a nerve there--that much is obvious.
I accept your concession, nice chat
>Says nothing of value
>makes no tangible point but spams nothing but moronation and over used memes
ok, bye
Are you going to cry? Or just seethe and mald?
Poor wittle biddy city parasite 🙁
>totally not same gayging
>NO YOU
wow, I truly struck a nerve
I just wanna see a pic of your land, city parasite
>Comes in to a thread about machetes
>Starts talking about power tools and property management
>Acuses other people of fricking up threads
Boomer logic is truly amazing
>completely missed the point of OP’s question.
HRT really messes with the troony brain.
>What blade is best for cutting through branches, vines, and other annoying overgrowths?
ok boomer
Samegayging city parasite
A STHIL Weed Wacker
>Comes into a thread about machetes
>Tells someone to buy a power tool
Boomer ladies and gentlemen.
Next you'll be telling me clearcutting is good for forests brag about your big truck and golf course like lawn.
a hatchet.
or if you thinkin long term, a sawzall, chainsaw, weed whacker etc. sawzall ftw
maybe that's more PrepHole but if you're clearing trails often then you simply need power tools.
Depends on the trail
Most of the trails around me are game trails until you get into the national forest/national park. You can easily clear the game trails and improve them into walking trails with hand tools--nothing fancy. The park guys use chainsaws because they're dealing with 2 to 4 foot trees falling across a trails or building bridges.
Brush = machete (razor sharp is enough)
Branches = at least a Trail Master size and weight is what you look for
https://www.machetespecialists.com/product/condor-12-inch-stainless-steel-village-parang-machete/
why does it have to be 80USD
It hurts me