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30 inch Sirupati
18 inch Gelbu Special
16,5 inch WW2
Finally after a long time of waiting the package has arrived. You people who live in USA are lucky who can get your knives delivered after a few days. I have to wait for a month or two, depending on.
Norwegian customs has rejected some knives from Uncle Bill so he has to send them to my mother in Sweden. Then after arriving there the knives will stay there for some weeks until my mother has a reason to travel to Norway and can post the package there and finally reach me. If she posts from Sweden I just have to pay taxes.
30 inch Sirupati
That thing really is huge. It is an unbeliveably big piece of a metal thing that is just incredible. A real monster khukuri. This would be something for Conan, or the future Californian governor.
I have already tested it in the forest. I chopped down some trees, real big ones too. The power of the 30 Siru was really awesome. Just hack hack hack and crash! That tall tree went down in no time. How simple and quick! It was as if someone had given growth hormones and adrenalin to that Siru. One thing is for sure though. This thing is different from all the other khuks. This one needs a fully focused user.
I must say though that I don't kill live trees. I always walk to find old ones that are dead without anything green. And I even cut down only those who are mere grey skeletons without any lichens growing on them. Simply because I want to let the lichens feed on the dead tree in peace. I fear that if I was to chop it down so it would touch soil then those lichens would be out of their habitat, not so high up in the air and possibly be outcompeted by other lichens on the ground. You see the lichens on dead trees (here at least) are different when the trees are lying on the ground than from when they are still fully erect and decaying. Anyway, when the tree is empty of any nutrition the lichens die from it too, and that is when the tree skeleton meets khukuri. But I always make sure there are more grey skeleton trees close by so that the woodpeckers don't run empty of trees to hack homes in. They prefer them grey.
The Siru is a bit over my limit I think. I am not sure if to keep it. It is really heavy. I need two hands on that thing. And the problem is that the end part of the handle has vibrations like a church bell on a Sunday. It hurts the hand. So now I am figuring about picking apart the handle and weld on a longer tang and put on a longer handle so that this becomes a 2 1/2 hand handle or 3 hand handle. The idea would be that the church bell vibrations could play around as much as they like at the end of that longer handle without feeling painful for me. And also I would get a much much securer grip with two hands. Now one of my hands has to grip on the flared out end part of the handle, which is not so comfortable or secure.
What do the experts here think about this?
Any ideas if alternatively a 25 Siru would be better? I am in need of a real user khukuri for some logging and clearing of an overgrown hectar or two close to the farm. I would have to put a double handle on a 25'er too I believe. My experience with a 25 Kobra tells me this.
18 inch Gelbu Special
This one was sent as a replacement of the one I broke.
Warning: The pictures in the links are over 500 kb big.
http://groups.msn.com/Justmypictures/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=24
http://groups.msn.com/Justmypictures/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=25
But here is a strange thing. I always hear about the variation between the kamis' styles. But these two 18" Gelbus which are both made by Sher have a big variation. The broken one is lighter, thinner and a definate weapon as well as a camping tool. The new one is heavier, thicker and the handle is remarkably thick. Definately not a weapon. Not for my body build at least.
I had a 20 inch Ang Khola once and the handle on this new GS is identical to that one. It's a bulldog kind of handle. And this was the reason why I had to let the Ang Khola go. The handle didn't like me. I can hold it and use it, but it doesn't feel optimal.
I know. Sanding it down. But still the blade is also a bit heavy.
Hmmm... I will see if some people I know would like to purchase it so I could buy a new one from Uncle Bill. All problems have a solution.
16,5 inch WW2
Not much to say. We all know how these work.
All I can conclude is that out of the 18 and 16,5 incher I think the 18 incher is better as it has just enough reach to give swinging momentum and can more easily take down a tree.
But the 16,5 incher is an ok to go thingy.
18 inch Gelbu Special
16,5 inch WW2
Finally after a long time of waiting the package has arrived. You people who live in USA are lucky who can get your knives delivered after a few days. I have to wait for a month or two, depending on.
Norwegian customs has rejected some knives from Uncle Bill so he has to send them to my mother in Sweden. Then after arriving there the knives will stay there for some weeks until my mother has a reason to travel to Norway and can post the package there and finally reach me. If she posts from Sweden I just have to pay taxes.
30 inch Sirupati
That thing really is huge. It is an unbeliveably big piece of a metal thing that is just incredible. A real monster khukuri. This would be something for Conan, or the future Californian governor.
I have already tested it in the forest. I chopped down some trees, real big ones too. The power of the 30 Siru was really awesome. Just hack hack hack and crash! That tall tree went down in no time. How simple and quick! It was as if someone had given growth hormones and adrenalin to that Siru. One thing is for sure though. This thing is different from all the other khuks. This one needs a fully focused user.
I must say though that I don't kill live trees. I always walk to find old ones that are dead without anything green. And I even cut down only those who are mere grey skeletons without any lichens growing on them. Simply because I want to let the lichens feed on the dead tree in peace. I fear that if I was to chop it down so it would touch soil then those lichens would be out of their habitat, not so high up in the air and possibly be outcompeted by other lichens on the ground. You see the lichens on dead trees (here at least) are different when the trees are lying on the ground than from when they are still fully erect and decaying. Anyway, when the tree is empty of any nutrition the lichens die from it too, and that is when the tree skeleton meets khukuri. But I always make sure there are more grey skeleton trees close by so that the woodpeckers don't run empty of trees to hack homes in. They prefer them grey.
The Siru is a bit over my limit I think. I am not sure if to keep it. It is really heavy. I need two hands on that thing. And the problem is that the end part of the handle has vibrations like a church bell on a Sunday. It hurts the hand. So now I am figuring about picking apart the handle and weld on a longer tang and put on a longer handle so that this becomes a 2 1/2 hand handle or 3 hand handle. The idea would be that the church bell vibrations could play around as much as they like at the end of that longer handle without feeling painful for me. And also I would get a much much securer grip with two hands. Now one of my hands has to grip on the flared out end part of the handle, which is not so comfortable or secure.
What do the experts here think about this?
Any ideas if alternatively a 25 Siru would be better? I am in need of a real user khukuri for some logging and clearing of an overgrown hectar or two close to the farm. I would have to put a double handle on a 25'er too I believe. My experience with a 25 Kobra tells me this.
18 inch Gelbu Special
This one was sent as a replacement of the one I broke.
Warning: The pictures in the links are over 500 kb big.
http://groups.msn.com/Justmypictures/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=24
http://groups.msn.com/Justmypictures/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=25
But here is a strange thing. I always hear about the variation between the kamis' styles. But these two 18" Gelbus which are both made by Sher have a big variation. The broken one is lighter, thinner and a definate weapon as well as a camping tool. The new one is heavier, thicker and the handle is remarkably thick. Definately not a weapon. Not for my body build at least.
I had a 20 inch Ang Khola once and the handle on this new GS is identical to that one. It's a bulldog kind of handle. And this was the reason why I had to let the Ang Khola go. The handle didn't like me. I can hold it and use it, but it doesn't feel optimal.
I know. Sanding it down. But still the blade is also a bit heavy.
Hmmm... I will see if some people I know would like to purchase it so I could buy a new one from Uncle Bill. All problems have a solution.
16,5 inch WW2
Not much to say. We all know how these work.
All I can conclude is that out of the 18 and 16,5 incher I think the 18 incher is better as it has just enough reach to give swinging momentum and can more easily take down a tree.
But the 16,5 incher is an ok to go thingy.
