chopping

munk said:
Yes, Ibear purchased a couple khuks at my urging when I found this place. He has not chopped a thing with them.
That is a sad waste.




munk
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Chopper Is As A Chopper Does!

But, you knew that, I'm sure! :) :) :)

The Sad Waster says thanks,
iBear
 
munk said:
You ever move up here; you'll chop.



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Or freeze yer iBear ass off.:rolleyes: ;)

Munk, they still burn a lot of coal up there? I can still smell that acrid smoke smell of hard coal burning.:grumpy: We used wood And Coal in the huge wood cookstove that was in our service station, garage, house.... All built together.
We only heated part of the house, had a huge, to me at the time, oil stove in the living room.
 
Yvsa said:
Or freeze yer iBear ass off.:rolleyes: ;)

Munk, they still burn a lot of coal up there? I can still smell that acrid smoke smell of hard coal burning.:grumpy: We used wood And Coal in the huge wood cookstove that was in our service station, garage, house.... All built together.
We only heated part of the house, had a huge, to me at the time, oil stove in the living room.
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Munk is a cool dude..... OR was it a cold dude...... I forget!?

HeeeeeHaaa,
iBear
 
munk said:
You ever move up here; you'll chop.



munk
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Promise? I never said I was a chopper..... but you could convert me.

You got that right! I will chop! HeeeeeeHeee!

Better get your truck fixed.... I'm coming soon! We got to haul some wood.
Do you still need a motor? I can get you one down here.... cheap!
Thanks,
iBear
 
I think the heavy one chop deeper and split better, but I think it is harder to chop as long with them. I don't have any narrow bladed ones but I have always wanted an 18" Gelbu Special cause despite the narrow blade they are really thick at the spine, and would seem to be good for chopping.
 
hollowdweller said:
I think the heavy one chop deeper and split better, but I think it is harder to chop as long with them. I don't have any narrow bladed ones but I have always wanted an 18" Gelbu Special cause despite the narrow blade they are really thick at the spine, and would seem to be good for chopping.
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Yes, that makes sense to me. As I am learning I am realizing that each person has preferences and may like one knife over the other. Apparently their is no real hard bound rule to follow. I am still absorbinbg and it may take a while.
Thanks,
iBear
 
People will throw a little coal into their stoves. Not recomended. There's coal coming out of the ground up here.


munk
 
ibear said:
I am still absorbinbg and it may take a while.

Thanks,
iBear
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Is your alter ego Sponge Bob Square Pants? I mean seeing as how you're still absorbing and all.;) :p :D
 
I watch Sponge Bob daily. I almost got out of seeing Dora the Explorer, but the two year old has decided Dora is a hit.
His mom bought him a Dora figurine. Kind of strange. The five year old has about 20 Dragon Ball Z action figures.
Yeah, I has some trepidation about a giving my son a girl figurine. Dora seems immune though. The little one says dolls are stupid- but he likes his plastic Dora.

It's a strange house. The oldest, 8, has about 20 stuffed animals. We can't have real animals because Mom's allergic. He's a sensitive kid. He takes bugs outside to spare their lives. The middle kid is a barbarian. He hasn't worn a shirt for 3 months- walks around bare chested-even outside. The older one pays him to kill spiders- but if they look real bad I'm called in.

I gave their mother a stuffed collie for Valentines. The two year old swiped it. I have to haul all this friggen stuff upstairs or he won't go to sleep. Dora, 4 stuffed dogs, a stuffed cow, and a monkey.
He checks to make sure the entire crew is in bed with him.

The five year old sleeps with Goku and a bunch of bad guys.
He's the only kid I ever met who LIKES to be the bad guy.

I never liked Dora. Sort of the left art crowd's resignation to illegal immigration.

Catdog was my kind of guy, and Courage the Cowardly dog.

I think they canned catdog because it was too darn strange.

I guess someone on the Right said Sponge Bob was gay. That's pretty bad. Not like Tinkie Winkie on the Teletubbies- that guy sashsays all over the screen. He told the british press he intends to play Tinkie as a Gay Child. What is a gay child? Do we know?

I always thought childhood was for kids- not the advance moves of the mating ritual. But Nickolodean sells all this pre pre teen pop music- really disgusting stuff.

The goal of enlightened civilization- 12 year girls who act like they're 32.
And I keep expecting a break out scene between Sparticus and Stephanie on Lazy Town.
She's pre teen and he's the hero- in his twenties.

I should have started a seperate thread on all this. The wierdest thing of all is to be watching tv with your children and have an ad for an extended hard- on product-
"For that quality experience- whenever he wants it."

All the feminine hygiene stuff was bad enough. I have to explain ovulation.


munk
 
munk said:
I watch Sponge Bob daily. I almost got out of seeing Dora the Explorer, but the two year old has decided Dora is a hit.
His mom bought him a Dora figurine. Kind of strange. The five year old has about 20 Dragon Ball Z action figures.
Yeah, I has some trepidation about a giving my son a girl figurine. Dora seems immune though. The little one says dolls are stupid- but he likes his plastic Dora.

It's a strange house. The oldest, 8, has about 20 stuffed animals. We can't have real animals because Mom's allergic. He's a sensitive kid. He takes bugs outside to spare their lives. The middle kid is a barbarian. He hasn't worn a shirt for 3 months- walks around bare chested-even outside. The older one pays him to kill spiders- but if they look real bad I'm called in.

I gave their mother a stuffed collie for Valentines. The two year old swiped it. I have to haul all this friggen stuff upstairs or he won't go to sleep. Dora, 4 stuffed dogs, a stuffed cow, and a monkey.
He checks to make sure the entire crew is in bed with him.

The five year old sleeps with Goku and a bunch of bad guys.
He's the only kid I ever met who LIKES to be the bad guy.

I never liked Dora. Sort of the left art crowd's resignation to illegal immigration.

Catdog was my kind of guy, and Courage the Cowardly dog.

I think they canned catdog because it was too darn strange.

I guess someone on the Right said Sponge Bob was gay. That's pretty bad. Not like Tinkie Winkie on the Teletubbies- that guy sashsays all over the screen. He told the british press he intends to play Tinkie as a Gay Child. What is a gay child? Do we know?

I always thought childhood was for kids- not the advance moves of the mating ritual. But Nickolodean sells all this pre pre teen pop music- really disgusting stuff.

The goal of enlightened civilization- 12 year girls who act like they're 32.
And I keep expecting a break out scene between Sparticus and Stephanie on Lazy Town.
She's pre teen and he's the hero- in his twenties.

I should have started a seperate thread on all this. The wierdest thing of all is to be watching tv with your children and have an ad for an extended hard- on product-
"For that quality experience- whenever he wants it."

All the feminine hygiene stuff was bad enough. I have to explain ovulation.


munk
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Now THAT was funny :D
 
Yvsa said:
If my younger brother Finn were too drop in he could explain the weight/mass versus speed thing that I can understand but can't communicate in a really decent manner.
Basically a lighter knife can accumulate mass due to its speed compared to the mass and slower speed of a heavier khuk so that they are both equal or better in the severity of the cut at the end of the strike.
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That may just be the impulse. Physically the impulse is mass*speed. So if you have a lighter blade coming with higher speed it equals the impulse of a heavier but slower one. (Think of an arrow and a bullet - the arrow is heavier by far - and slower too - but in the end it equals a faster bullet of small (=light) caliber shot from a pistol. It is just the same with knives...

Andreas
 
Hell, think of rpm versus torque.

Munk?

I'll match you one: I took the kids to Springfield, Illinois, to see the Abraham Lincoln stuff. We stayed at one of the first Holiday Inn, pool w/arcade w/minature golf dealies. They had a jacuzi, but kids were not allowed.

I watched. The girls went in the pool, splashed and all that. I went back to my book. I looked up and the younger one (of COURSE) was happily trudging over to the jacuzzi with an opaque water balloon she had found in the pool.

I looked again. Yep.

I got up, explained that water balloons should not be there and that I understood that she found it in the big pool, but I was going to dispose of it.

I went in the men's room, and burst the condom.

Then...that night, I had to explain about condoms, sexual reproduction, the...er...differences in equipment, and that some clown had filled a condom up with water and tossed it in the big pool. One of the nice things about young kids is that all they really want is an explanation, not everydamneddetail. Mostly the reaction was "Really? Ewww!"

(Addendum: I also had to explain about toxity in tampons after the kids found a door-to-door free sample of one that I had put in my medicine chest.)

WHERE was their mother when the tough questions had to be answered? :) :)


Be well and safe.
 
I wonder if Mike Venturino ever posts?

I never met him. I hear second hand stuff which of course should never be taken as gospel. If I ever make it they'll say rotten things about me too. Heck, they say rotten things about me now. But MV is always looking for a killer deal. He doesn't want to pay right price. That's normal- there's a lot of gun folks who if they can't skin you don't want to play.
For some reason I like Jim S. He sounds OK. I like the late Ian Hogg,
Dean Grennell, Ken Warner of Gun Digest was oK too.

Finn Aagard, I miss him.
Dick Metcalf. He championed the 41 bless him for that. I used to like Wiley Clapp alright until he said let's do away with the 41. Ken Waters- even though he was sometimes not quite accurate with his math.
And Jack OConnor, of course.

I was glad to see Venturino leave Shooting Times. IT seemed like every month we got to see Mike gloating about some gun he'd picked up on the cheap. Gunsnammo is better today anyway. They're owned by the same company.

A gun writer came to my town once to shoot prarrie dogs. He was a feature writer in Rifle Mag. I didn't recognize his name but did remember an article he'd written about the M1 Carbine. Or was it the 30 Mauser? Fame is fleeting.

Several big names showed up at my Gunsmith's house one day. They were here care of Hornady to shoot prarrie dogs on the Reservation. ONe had a scope problem so they went to my gunsmith. They acted like he didn't know doodle squat. This gunsmith is good. He's a funny guy though. Sometimes you see him at the bottom of a trash bin looking for good junk. He got their rifle sighted back in.

munk
 
When Carter was 3 or 4 I saw him studying grasshoppers connected together. I knew the jig was up.


munk
 
The chitlangi cuts deeply into the wood, but can be hard to withdraw - there is less wedge action. The BGRS cuts almost as deeply, but the profile is different, and so the chips fly.
I think that the chitlangi may be designed for a different purpose than some other khukuris - like cutting lighter material, or perhaps for double-duty as a weapon - but I am not sure about this at all.
The experts might know.
 
my Kesar Chitlangi's first duty was to cut down an 8" diameter tree. It bit hard and swung away easy. Obviously a different profile than yours, Arty, mine weighs 25 oz and is 19" long.




munk
 
munk said:
I wonder if Mike Venturino ever posts?

...I like the late Ian Hogg

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munk, please let me lift up the name of Skeeter Skelton, my favorite gunwriter of the '70's. Skeeter's fiction & fact were always just so readable... His books are out of print & hard to track down. But I will one day. Only last year I finally got a copy of "Hell, I was there!" by Elmer Keith.... on Amazon.

Knew I needed that one even after... oh... 30 yrs?

Anything written by Ian Hogg needs collecting too. Few that I have, I treasure. What that guy knew...


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