A fun way to polish the edge of your B11! ***PIC DENSE***

PeteyTwoPointOne

PeteyTwoPointOne

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A Busse afi's idea of fun on Sunday afternoon ;)

The B11 provides equal parts comfort, acceleration, and whoopassabilty....meaning you can crank it pretty fast and still maintain accuracy. Sure it doesn't have the brute force of a MOABolo or even a Mistress but it possesses a good balance of excellent qualities.

First find some recent deadfall around your lot.
This is a 1/2 of a forked Dogwood that recently busted off:

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A part near the top, ca. 2" diameter, seasoned, close-grained, no sign of insect work, and quite hard! :eek: It succombed after 4 quick uni-directional strikes on a slight bias:

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Further down the trunk, even tougher:

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Further still....

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First whack, purposely placed near a limb juncture:

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Note the spalting...

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About at the halfway point...Brother, you better believe this stock wasn't cracking under its own inertia or busting out because of rottenness!

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Nearly there...

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Success! :cool:

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Fun, but I wouldn't want to make a living doin it! ;)

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The B11 is an awesome chopper for it's weight. It also doubles as a heavy machete. Good pics.
 
Well those aren't Saw Horses per se. More like Chop Horses! Fun pics, thanks for the share!
 
That looks like a good bit of fun there, hope you enjoyed it. I will say this though as it seems you made a comment referencing one of my previous posts…

While it may seem like chopping that log would be much more of a feat than the wood in the video I referenced, you would be wrong to assume this sort of wood is an easy challenge for a knife… look what these small dead weathered twigs do to the edge of an ESEE machete.

[video=youtube;q8hyfbcSJ18]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hyfbcSJ18[/video]

If you are using an edge that takes this sort of abuse without flinching… then you are using something that is horribly inefficient for cutting the sort of materials your photos demonstrate. As you noted, you wouldn't want to do that job over again by the end of it. If you HAD to do this sort of thing more than once, which edge would you prefer?
 
Maggot Brain said:
That looks like a good bit of fun there, hope you enjoyed it. I will say this though as it seems you made a comment referencing one of my previous posts…

While it may seem like chopping that log would be much more of a feat than the wood in the video I referenced, you would be wrong to assume this sort of wood is an easy challenge for a knife… look what these small dead weathered twigs do to the edge of an ESEE machete.

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If you are using an edge that takes this sort of abuse without flinching… then you are using something that is horribly inefficient for cutting the sort of materials your photos demonstrate. As you noted, you wouldn't want to do that job over again by the end of it. If you HAD to do this sort of thing more than once, which edge would you prefer?
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ESEE machete v. B11?

Apples and oranges...different philosophy of use too, to boot.

"small dead weathered twigs" v. a properly profiled INFI blade...are you serious? :confused:

My B11 could delimb those cedars all week long and twice on Sunday without dulling. Taking my knife into the wood for that kind of "abuse" would be like throwing a rabbit into the briar patch. ;)

I did this for FUN-- just wanted to share what my B11 did. It shaved arm hair pre-bucking, and more importantly it shaved post-buck. :thumbup:

I didn't run multiple tests or double-blind trials....but if I were so inclined to put a blade or a particular steel or edge geometry to the test and take the time to post it on YouTube and pass it off as legit, I'd damn sure pick some solid stock to demonstrate on-- not some moth and dust ridden detritus that any self-respecting termite would turn its nose up to. Come on man, you could bust up the deadfall in that other vid with a baseball bat as effectively as what he did with the knifechete and prove just as much doing so.

As for the vid you just posted...What's its purpose besides proving what everyone already knows?

BTW, the YouTuber causes as much damage to the machete with his technique as he does with the other factors he seems to be trying to highlight. There's multiple variables at work contributing to the damage in the vid.-- not just the tool itself. Trying to blame it on the machete itself and introducing all the other factors into it is just bad science.

Notwithstanding that, he is correct about the direction to chase the limbs, that may be new, useful information to a couple of guys.

And to answer your last question, if I HAD to buck logs for a living, I'd choose the edge the pros use-- a chainsaw. But given the B11, Gavko knifechete, or ESEE anything as the only options, that's easy...the B11 with my edge! :D

Hope that's what you were asking. :)
 
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Maggot Brain said:
My mistake, hope you had fun.
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Yeah, I think you guys argued the same point.

Machetes are purposely soft, they are also thin for flex so that they can keep cutting vegetation when they are dull, which they do well. Against hard wood they have no chance. Even twigs regardless of technique. A more obtuse edge will help a little but not much. I have used a tramontina on hard small wood(twigs) and by the time I was done it looked like I had a serrated edge. It took me an hour to grind out the deep dents.
 
B11 is great. I messed up the asym edge with the Scotchbrite wheel after stripping it, so it and the asym B9 are heading back to Busse to get the edge reset.
 
Cobalt said:
Yeah, I think you guys argued the same point.

Machetes are purposely soft, they are also thin for flex so that they can keep cutting vegetation when they are dull, which they do well. Against hard wood they have no chance. Even twigs regardless of technique. A more obtuse edge will help a little but not much. I have used a tramontina on hard small wood(twigs) and by the time I was done it looked like I had a serrated edge. It took me an hour to grind out the deep dents.
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They are also soft so when you hit rocks clearing brush you don't chip or break the machete in half :thumbup:
 
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