Best of both worlds hatchet / machete

[Pietje010]

I know there already have been some threads about a similar topic but I still have a question about these tools. I know it are two different kind of tools. But isn’t there a good combination for an smaller hand axe like a hatchet and a machete. So you can take down 5 or 6 inch trees, split the logs and clear you way thru 1 or 2 inch bushes.

I usually like to carry them both but that’s a heavy overkill and I don’t really use them a lot. What’s a good combo tool? Is it a kukri machete, like a CS 97KMS, or some weird looking other blade. But not so darn expensive and available in Europe.

 

[Kazeryu]

A khukuri is a good choice for the work you are describing. Go and have a look at the Himalayan-Imports forum on this website for some more info.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Most of the typical long blades like goloks, parangs, bolos, are made to do exactly that type of work. Some are closer to a machete and others to a hatchet. Valiant makes fairly inexpensive ones, Jim Aston has done a lot of work with them.

-Cliff

 

[faceplant]

If your planning on bashing it around like it is a machete and/or a hatchet, I would go with Cold Steeles $20 dollar Kukri Machete

<www.coldsteel.com/97kms.html>

or the two handed machete might do yah for.

<http://www.coldsteel.com/97thm.html>

I personally would go with the kukri but thats just the ghurka wannabe in me talking.

 

[Kazeryu]

or the two handed machete might do yah for.

<http://www.coldsteel.com/97thm.html>

"In a self defense emergency, the Two Handed Machete will also double as a highly effective sword. It's light enough to be swung with either one or both hands and delivers enough cutting power to lop off heads and dismember limbs."

*snort* 'dismember limbs' Does their hype department even realise that this statement makes no sense?


No offence to cold steel - I hear they make decent products - I'm just poking fun at their hype.

 

[hwyhobo]

I would go with Cold Steeles $20 dollar Kukri Machete

Do you own any of their "machetes"? I do. POS does not begin to describe it. They are sure cheap, but there is a reason for it. They go blunt if you look at them crooked. Couple of strikes on hard wood, and the edge wraps around like it was made of butter. I will never buy another one. I don't think I would take one for free.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Becker Knife & Tool's original offering was the machaxe, the "machete axe". They've been out of production for a while but you might be able to find one second-hand.

 

[bigbcustom]

Becker's current 14" machete has good steel, and in a decent thickness (same as the bk7) alternatively the bk1 "brute" has a 9.5" x 1/4" thick blade, I would think that either of those would be good for you. If you want a machete I would rec. ontarios.

 

[ArchAngel]

Machete+Hatchet= Khukuri! Check out the Himalayan Imports section here and you can get some good ideas and opinions.I find I can do all I would ever like to with my 21 9/16", 28 oz HI Foxy Folly. It slices like a machete and chops better than a hatchet.:thumbup:

 

[Nick Hyle]

If your planning on bashing it around like it is a machete and/or a hatchet, I would go with Cold Steeles $20 dollar Kukri Machete

Um, ick? Wait, not strong enough - not hell no but fuck no?

I personally would go with the kukri but thats just the ghurka wannabe in me talking.

Now you're talking. I've got an old, old, CS light khukri - the kind sabre ground on a 1/8" slab of whatever they were using for Carbon V that year - and I've put it through all kinds of outdoor hell. There are times I want a real 20"+ machete instead, and times I need a real axe, but as a compromise it's damn good tool.

I would imagine any heavy-ish, medium long whacker - parang, bolo, golok, etc - would do similarly, dependoing on quality and the details of its construction. I keep meaning to pick up one of the 18" or 22" Ontario machete's, the 1/8" thick 1095 (1075?) ones, and see if it will give me 'real machete' reach with more wood-chopping power than my thin Mexican Collins.