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Well, yesterday my father asked me if I could help him trim some Stone Pines that were in the backyard. Ofcourse I said yes. The sun was shining, and the cold wind that was up couldn't hold us back any longer.
-Intermezzo: funny story about the Stone Pine... According to pretty much all the books on trees or other flora I have, the Stone Pine dóes not and cannot grow where I live. The same books claim that attempts to make them grow in gardens have been made, but have not been succesful. The ones in our yard however, are now 27 years old and we've got saplings every year
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Anyway, it took us quite some hours to get the job done. Especially since we had to seperate the smaller wood(to be taken away) from the larger wood (for the fireplace) and the larger branches had to be cleaned from the smaller stuff. That meant a lot of playing with chainsaws, hatchets, cleavers and... my BK16. Yey!
Here's the backyard, full of cr*p:
The crown of the first pine, after thinning it out. Mind the large pine cones. They're superb for starting fires.
In the end, we collected 4 of these boxes with pine cones...
The second tree before...
...and after
Becker content... I must say it held up great. It's way lighter than the hatches we used, but was able to clear many smaller twigs and branches from the larger pieces of wood. I'm impressed!
The 16 could cleanly cut through 1.5cm twigs in one swipe. It works especially well when you hold the handle with your index and thumb, around the final thicker piece of the handle. Clean, nice cuts. In most cases it worked better than the hatchets (for the smaller twigs and branches, of course). Probably because I keep it sharper than my dad keeps his stuff. When I first took out the 16, he laughed and said: "Are you going to play with your knives again?" I said: "Play? Waddayamean? I'm going to use this to work with". He didn't really think the knife could what he actually saw it doing afterwards. He was impressed (although he doesn't like to admit that...).
A final view on that beauty...
Long story short: my dad and I had an awesome day outside. We're both somewhat sore now, but that's nothing a good beer with my dad can't fix. Final conclusion: I also need a BK9
-Intermezzo: funny story about the Stone Pine... According to pretty much all the books on trees or other flora I have, the Stone Pine dóes not and cannot grow where I live. The same books claim that attempts to make them grow in gardens have been made, but have not been succesful. The ones in our yard however, are now 27 years old and we've got saplings every year
-Anyway, it took us quite some hours to get the job done. Especially since we had to seperate the smaller wood(to be taken away) from the larger wood (for the fireplace) and the larger branches had to be cleaned from the smaller stuff. That meant a lot of playing with chainsaws, hatchets, cleavers and... my BK16. Yey!
Here's the backyard, full of cr*p:
The crown of the first pine, after thinning it out. Mind the large pine cones. They're superb for starting fires.
In the end, we collected 4 of these boxes with pine cones...
The second tree before...
...and after
Becker content... I must say it held up great. It's way lighter than the hatches we used, but was able to clear many smaller twigs and branches from the larger pieces of wood. I'm impressed!
The 16 could cleanly cut through 1.5cm twigs in one swipe. It works especially well when you hold the handle with your index and thumb, around the final thicker piece of the handle. Clean, nice cuts. In most cases it worked better than the hatchets (for the smaller twigs and branches, of course). Probably because I keep it sharper than my dad keeps his stuff. When I first took out the 16, he laughed and said: "Are you going to play with your knives again?" I said: "Play? Waddayamean? I'm going to use this to work with". He didn't really think the knife could what he actually saw it doing afterwards. He was impressed (although he doesn't like to admit that...).
A final view on that beauty...
Long story short: my dad and I had an awesome day outside. We're both somewhat sore now, but that's nothing a good beer with my dad can't fix. Final conclusion: I also need a BK9
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