Best knife for contractor? INFI, 3v, A2, D2 etc

Another bigggg vote for the Fallkniven S1. The Bark Rivers in A2 like the Bravo 1 or Gameskeeper would be wonderful also, and could handle evrything you could throw at them including hatchet duty. The Mission Knives fixed blade MPK in A2 is also another you'd be hard pressed to match for ruggedness. Fehrman Knives is a sleeper in hard use knives, like the Peace Keeper. My vote for the best value for the utility is the Bark River line in A2, especially those with a blade thickness in .215.

Good luck!

NJ
 
Twindog said:
You guys are naming wonderful knives, but the problem is that no knife is going to do what the OP wants. He needs a hatchet. When I took my GB carpenter's hatchet and HI Khukri out to chop up maple blow down, the hatchet was a little better, not a lot, but the khukri's edge rolled in two places. The hatchet's edge did not. There was a guy with a Busse for sale. He had cut a bunch of firewood with it. It's a truly great knife, but the edge was chipped and rolled. The OP expects even greater performance from his knife. No knife will stand up to that kind of abuse.
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An entry tool or a hatchet might indeed best serve his uses, but he seems to be looking for something relatively compact, which no hatchet actually is.

As for the Busse with a chipped and rolled edge from cutting firewood, frankly, I don't buy that. I've cut more firewood with some of my Busses than I care to remember, and I've never had a chipped edge. In fact, I've not had an edge chip on a Busse even after accidentally striking into rocks - dents, yes, chips, no. As I see it, either you mistook denting for chipping, or the guy had done something much worse than cutting firewood (how about cutting mild steel bars?) to it, or it was a defective knife that should've been sent to Busse for warranty. That's my experience anyway.
 
Congratulations. But, don't be surprised if the blade to handle ratio looks a little different in you hand than in those photos.
 
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