Busse Combat Basic 7 failure...

[Spark]

... to stop chopping through wood!







Here in Louisville we've had a spate of pretty nasty storms recently, rain mostly until the unreal 6"+ of snow today. Last month we had 10" of rain when the standard for February is 2-3". With all that, there's been a ton of downed trees and resultant firewood to be carted away... and I've been getting as much as I could for my backyard firepit.

Pictured above is a 5-6" diameter piece of wood that I wanted to section up to burn. I have no clue what type it is, I just grabbed my Combat Basic 7 from my gear and started batoning it on through.

Of course, like an idiot, I wasn't paying attention and wound up going through a knot. With the overall thickness of the wood, I didn't have much blade tip to hammer on either, but the CB7 powered on through anyhow. You can see how it split the wood right down the center of the knot.

Sorry about the crappy pictures, these were taken with my iPhone.

 

[clone7]

The wood never stood a chance.

 

[book'em]

Lucky to have one of those. I use my Dodfather all the time because of the Res C handles. Thanks for the shots.:thumbup:

 

[resinguy]

When I clicked on those thumbnails, some kind of ad server bot tried to take over my CPU. I had to crash my computer to stop it. I do NOT like Imageshack.

 

[jimmyjones]

Cool, thanks for the pix :thumbup:


The Basics 7 makes for a great all around camp knife !




.. oh and careful around the kool-aid Spark

 

[Andy'sLeatherHouse]

the same thing just happened to me. i thought my laptop was a gonner....
cool Basic 7 though......

made me realize though that i have not backed up my photos in a couple of weeks.....gonna do it now!
--good things realized through bad happenings!

 

[OldPhysics]

Thanks for thanks for the photos! The Basic 7 looks hungry.

Fortunately, my blockers caught that bot and killed it dead.

 

[RokJok]

Jeez, Kevin, watch out what you write for your thread titles!! This one just about gave me heart palpitations and hyper-ventilation.

I read the title and thought maybe all those Busse Basics I've been conscientiously collecting for many years were about to be proven trash and that I would have to chuck them all in the river to assuage my doubts of possible Busse less-than-perfection residing in my collection.

Good thing I read the thread and have received verification that the Basic series is as perfect as I think it is -- which is really, REALLY perfect IMHO.

Well, I'm off now to tuck the Basic beasties in for the night to enjoy their dreams of whackin' and cuttin' and smackin' and slashin' and chunkin' and pryin' and ....

 

[Jaxx]

No bot here, but cool PIX! :thumbup::thumbup: Funny... The first one I opened had a PIRATES of the Caribbean game ad... Kinda funny considering these were posted by the Head Pirate In Charge!!! ... Thanxx for posting these, Spark, good to know that even Pirates drink the Kool-Aid occasionally. :thumbup:

 

[Andy'sLeatherHouse]

must be somethin about us OHIO HOGS......bots are drawn to us...

 

[steelnut]

Oh no, Spark is drinking the kool aid!!

 

[Tyrkon Lawson]

Great pix Spark. It's good to see another piece of Busse Combat in action.

BTW: No bot here either. But I am on a Mac. Perhaps it's after Windows based operating systems. ???

 

[papathud]

Got to love the Basics, so much ability so little price.

Thank you for the post and the pics.

 

[1kimo4u]

aaaaaaarrrrrggghhhh captain...................................i mean oink, oink!!!