Cliff Stamp
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I had a bunch of clapboard to cut to lengths to burn, the most efficient way is of course to use a skillsaw with a blade you don't in particular care about as it is full of nails. However that isn't overly enjoyable so I chopped and sawed it up with the following :
That is two HI khukuris, an 18" Ang Khola, 20" Sirupari, a Gurkha House Service #1, a straight handled Battle Mistress, a Bruks Wildlife hatchet and two saws from Tashiro Hardware, the Zeta pocket saw and Timber saw. I had to adjust the angle of the Zeta saw back to parallel as it was way too aggressive at that drop.
I cut up 147 sections in total. There were slight differences in performance among the blades in terms of time and number of cuts but it wasn't statistically significant and not enough to make me pick one of them over the other either. The times were about 5-10 seconds per section, this includes the time to advance the wood as I was cutting three sections and then switching tools.
This time is reflected as an actual cutting time which meant reduced effort on the swings because at full force the blades would shatter the wood. In particular the Ang Khola can just break it off in 1-2 hits, however this usually produces lateral splits as well and thus isn't productive. Even with light swings, just elbow driven with light shoulder, the wood still fractured readily hence the pile contained as much broken wood as it did cut :
If I had to pick a knife to do this the Battle Mistress was the nicest to use as it is the lightest to swing and feels weightless compared to swinging the Ang Khola. The Battle Mistress is still way too much knife though and will shatter the wood on a full swing so I would back off to the Ratweiler which would chop such wood all day long. I didn't stop during any of the cutting aside from switching tools and recording times/cuts and the fatigue was insignificant.
The saws were on average of similar times to the knives. They could not be pressed very hard into the wood because it would even crack under their cutting and since I was cutting long lengths it was very floppy. If I had to do this from a working viewpoint I would just pick the Timber saw and stack at least four sheets together and cut through them. This was much more rigid and the saw could cut at full force.
I have a bunch of straight board, 2x4, 2x6 and 4x4 from the same renovation which I will be cutting up as well. This should be more informative from a speed/binding perspective as it can actually stay together under the impact of the chops.
-Cliff
That is two HI khukuris, an 18" Ang Khola, 20" Sirupari, a Gurkha House Service #1, a straight handled Battle Mistress, a Bruks Wildlife hatchet and two saws from Tashiro Hardware, the Zeta pocket saw and Timber saw. I had to adjust the angle of the Zeta saw back to parallel as it was way too aggressive at that drop.
I cut up 147 sections in total. There were slight differences in performance among the blades in terms of time and number of cuts but it wasn't statistically significant and not enough to make me pick one of them over the other either. The times were about 5-10 seconds per section, this includes the time to advance the wood as I was cutting three sections and then switching tools.
This time is reflected as an actual cutting time which meant reduced effort on the swings because at full force the blades would shatter the wood. In particular the Ang Khola can just break it off in 1-2 hits, however this usually produces lateral splits as well and thus isn't productive. Even with light swings, just elbow driven with light shoulder, the wood still fractured readily hence the pile contained as much broken wood as it did cut :
If I had to pick a knife to do this the Battle Mistress was the nicest to use as it is the lightest to swing and feels weightless compared to swinging the Ang Khola. The Battle Mistress is still way too much knife though and will shatter the wood on a full swing so I would back off to the Ratweiler which would chop such wood all day long. I didn't stop during any of the cutting aside from switching tools and recording times/cuts and the fatigue was insignificant.
The saws were on average of similar times to the knives. They could not be pressed very hard into the wood because it would even crack under their cutting and since I was cutting long lengths it was very floppy. If I had to do this from a working viewpoint I would just pick the Timber saw and stack at least four sheets together and cut through them. This was much more rigid and the saw could cut at full force.
I have a bunch of straight board, 2x4, 2x6 and 4x4 from the same renovation which I will be cutting up as well. This should be more informative from a speed/binding perspective as it can actually stay together under the impact of the chops.
-Cliff
