Had some fun today and a serious work out.
Let me start by saying if you are not in GREAT shape with tremendous upper body strength and endurance 20 Inch full size/thickness Khuks are to darn big. When they chop through something or you miss a chop they are DARN hard to stop. Make darn sure you know where your legs are and be very clear what is beyond your intended target. Do not swing a khuk even a little bit if there is ANYONE any where near being inside a 360 degree circle around your body.
Having said that this is a great work out. When I retire in a new year and move into my country place full time I am gonna chop logs and stumps daily.
So today my targets were a bunch of dead branches from a walnut tree and a large aged stump of a walnut tree. I chopped for 20 Min's with a 5 min break at 10 Min's to get my wind back.....
I chopped about 400 times into the stump and branches. The blade was scratched and dulled by this treatment. It never dulled enough during this chopping to impact cutting. I could not tell a difference in the cuts from beginning to end. The blade did sustain some abusive strikes that glanced off the wood because of bad angle. NO DAMAGE to the blade at all. I drove the tip as deep as I could into the the stump. I yanked the blade sideways ripping big chunks of the walnut stump out. NO DAMAGE TO THE TIP.
At this point I pulled the burnisher and worked the edge a bit. The edge came back to high degree. No longer hair shaving sharp. Thats OK this knife does not really gain anything from being that sharp.
I also cleared some brush and downed 20 to thirty Volunteer trees/bushes of unknown type. This worked just ok.... not this blades strong suit. I sails through inch think stems with out even slowing leaving you with the awe full and terrifying task of trying to stop the wicked thing.
So the knife passed my every test....... I on the other hand failed the tests badly. I am SO tired and sore. I am not match for a 20 inch CAK.
Let me start by saying if you are not in GREAT shape with tremendous upper body strength and endurance 20 Inch full size/thickness Khuks are to darn big. When they chop through something or you miss a chop they are DARN hard to stop. Make darn sure you know where your legs are and be very clear what is beyond your intended target. Do not swing a khuk even a little bit if there is ANYONE any where near being inside a 360 degree circle around your body.
Having said that this is a great work out. When I retire in a new year and move into my country place full time I am gonna chop logs and stumps daily.
So today my targets were a bunch of dead branches from a walnut tree and a large aged stump of a walnut tree. I chopped for 20 Min's with a 5 min break at 10 Min's to get my wind back.....
I chopped about 400 times into the stump and branches. The blade was scratched and dulled by this treatment. It never dulled enough during this chopping to impact cutting. I could not tell a difference in the cuts from beginning to end. The blade did sustain some abusive strikes that glanced off the wood because of bad angle. NO DAMAGE to the blade at all. I drove the tip as deep as I could into the the stump. I yanked the blade sideways ripping big chunks of the walnut stump out. NO DAMAGE TO THE TIP.
At this point I pulled the burnisher and worked the edge a bit. The edge came back to high degree. No longer hair shaving sharp. Thats OK this knife does not really gain anything from being that sharp.
I also cleared some brush and downed 20 to thirty Volunteer trees/bushes of unknown type. This worked just ok.... not this blades strong suit. I sails through inch think stems with out even slowing leaving you with the awe full and terrifying task of trying to stop the wicked thing.
So the knife passed my every test....... I on the other hand failed the tests badly. I am SO tired and sore. I am not match for a 20 inch CAK.
