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Another “Oh my gosh I’ve been so busy look at this thread.” Summer has a tendency to do that both in knife work and in real world work. Besides the articles I’ve been working on, I’ve had to contend with a few weeks of summer camp. The summer camps were really fun. I had to balance activities at the camps with the zip line, mud slide, and water tubing with the potato cannons, shelters, and other arts, crafts, and super pool games. They also got to use machetes of course, and knives after a stern talk about their importance. With the advent of being the only adult working with 7 kids 50 hours a week, I had been a little tired when I got home. After putting some trout in the creek to see if they survive, I had a chance to slowly catch up with just enough time to go out and help my buddies do salamander research up in west Virginia. These were the snake hunting guys I had talked about before, they are employed with the forest service during their grad research doing transect studies. Talk about machete use! They reported that the research would not be possible with out the glorious tools I’ve sharpened for ‘em. Kevin has an Ontario I gave him a while back, Nate, uses a Hansa, and Adrian uses a glorious Imacasa 16”, all of which are thinner than one would think and have kept edge retention perfect. Anyways, we would go around checking out different species of salamanders, and also checked cover board for recaptures. Injectable plastic makers are used to Identify each specimen. I also caught a Milk snake and many garters and ringnecks, 15 snakes in all! To top it all off, Mannlicher (Sam) came by and visited yesterday and today on his way up to Wytheville. We chopped in the little “bushcraft lab” (not really much) behind the house and checked out a few choppers including the contest machetes, and his Oseola knife by Tim Olt.
those are sweeeeet !
