I only go trapping occasionally, and when I do, there is only an occasional bit of brush to cut. All I might want to do is make a small 'barrier' of brush on a trail, or remove some brush so that the animal won't tangle. So the shorter khuk of any type would generally suffice.
If I had serious scrub-cutting to do, I would only use my precious khukuri as a last resort. I might be cutting regrowth scrub on a roadway where it is essential to cut it near the ground with as 'flat' a cut as possible to help ensure that the cut stump isn't going to act like a caltrop to penetrate feet and tyres. We often use a chainsaw for this, but occasionally we'd use something more primitive.
I would prefer to use a light slasher (bill-hook?), or maybe even a grubber (mattock?). I don't mind if these tools hit rock and have to have a heap of sharpening. This is what these tools are made for. But to use a khukuri for such work would upset me. These are relatively expensive, precision blades and it wouldn't seem right to abuse them in this way.
But this doesn't mean that I don't want a big khukuri capable of clearing acres of scrub.
If I had serious scrub-cutting to do, I would only use my precious khukuri as a last resort. I might be cutting regrowth scrub on a roadway where it is essential to cut it near the ground with as 'flat' a cut as possible to help ensure that the cut stump isn't going to act like a caltrop to penetrate feet and tyres. We often use a chainsaw for this, but occasionally we'd use something more primitive.
I would prefer to use a light slasher (bill-hook?), or maybe even a grubber (mattock?). I don't mind if these tools hit rock and have to have a heap of sharpening. This is what these tools are made for. But to use a khukuri for such work would upset me. These are relatively expensive, precision blades and it wouldn't seem right to abuse them in this way.
But this doesn't mean that I don't want a big khukuri capable of clearing acres of scrub.