Well, S o r t of a review. Anyone ever trim wood in the stove, finding it unexpectedly too long, or some small piece hanging it up, while the flames go higher and you know you have to move quick? I have.
You're really supposed to be smart enough that that doesn't happen. Stick a chunk in the stove and you can't close the door. Geeze. It's burning like hell and you don't want to pull it out, or maybe it's almost impossible to pull out. It's stuck and glowing. Then you grab your trusty 20" AK and take a whack, and just hope it doesn't bounce into an arm nearby or send a burning stick across the livingroom couch. The more I write about this the less impressed I am with my judgement. What next? Use a knife like a crowbar? A wood chisel on steel? A small wheel spare in a big wheel truck? Put diesel into the gas tank? Get drunk and meet the President?
What were you thinking? "Get in there, I say, in you go, log, do as you're told." This is frightening stuff. I'll be shooting holes into the deer in the Deer Crossing sign next.
It was the WWll, 16.5" and a huge 30 ounces. Roger Smith gave it to me a long time ago to say he cared. What a guy. "Munk, I care that you're cramming logs into a firebox that is too small so please use this khukuri to get you out of the mess." Roger is a hell of a guy.
Well, the khuk cut the wood burning stove. I know, unbelievable- a metal rim lining the stove the door closes on: 1/8" thick. Two very sharp nice as you please cuts on the edge, all the way through. OK, someone will say that steel was left soft on purpose, and it was. But the khuk? The khuk edge shows no sign whatsoever of having done this thing. And this blade is the 'too thin' type common to the period in HI history of the Maoist uprisng in Nepal.
A knife is for cutting, a hammer for striking, a crowbar for prying. And a HI khuk is for everything. It backs up fools like me.
Oh, and I did get the log in.
munk
You're really supposed to be smart enough that that doesn't happen. Stick a chunk in the stove and you can't close the door. Geeze. It's burning like hell and you don't want to pull it out, or maybe it's almost impossible to pull out. It's stuck and glowing. Then you grab your trusty 20" AK and take a whack, and just hope it doesn't bounce into an arm nearby or send a burning stick across the livingroom couch. The more I write about this the less impressed I am with my judgement. What next? Use a knife like a crowbar? A wood chisel on steel? A small wheel spare in a big wheel truck? Put diesel into the gas tank? Get drunk and meet the President?
What were you thinking? "Get in there, I say, in you go, log, do as you're told." This is frightening stuff. I'll be shooting holes into the deer in the Deer Crossing sign next.
It was the WWll, 16.5" and a huge 30 ounces. Roger Smith gave it to me a long time ago to say he cared. What a guy. "Munk, I care that you're cramming logs into a firebox that is too small so please use this khukuri to get you out of the mess." Roger is a hell of a guy.
Well, the khuk cut the wood burning stove. I know, unbelievable- a metal rim lining the stove the door closes on: 1/8" thick. Two very sharp nice as you please cuts on the edge, all the way through. OK, someone will say that steel was left soft on purpose, and it was. But the khuk? The khuk edge shows no sign whatsoever of having done this thing. And this blade is the 'too thin' type common to the period in HI history of the Maoist uprisng in Nepal.
A knife is for cutting, a hammer for striking, a crowbar for prying. And a HI khuk is for everything. It backs up fools like me.
Oh, and I did get the log in.
munk
