Foxy Folly's First Sea Trial

There was one guy on the forum who abused HI khuks. A infamous deliberate incident was using the Kobra to cut down a frozen Pine in the dead of Winter. The Kobra is not to be used as an industrial/timber harvest tool. This former forumite complained of breaking several other HI khuks. We had a long Cantina discussion about it. But the bottom line is any tool can be destroyed. Using HI Khuks or any other tool with grotesque amounts of pressure and force on unyeilding mediums will break them. Throwing them can break them. (I've read) So it's one thing to proof test a khuk, and quite another to subject it to everyday abuse of the same kind month after month, year after year. There have been a few, very rare few individuals for whom Uncle Bill finally refused to sell kukris because they broke them.

I can relate to that. I've broken a lot of stuff in my life. (that would make a good thread- "stuff we've broken")

So, there's a difference between HI's modern khuks done right and Thor's Hammer.


munk
 
Nicely put.

When I get my own, and when he brings his out to work with, they're not really considered tools for the job anymore. We'll clear brush with 'em and we've cut back on the rampant destruction of random trees. Always followed by a good cleaning of course. So it may come off like all we use them for is breaking cinder blocks and falling long dead trees with heartwood that rivals a good steel bumper. But honestly, the only people that put them to use are Satori, myself and one or two others. They're well taken care of and the abuse has been cut down to minimal at most. So I don't want it to come off like they're applied with maximum force 100% of the time. From what I've seen of Satori's maintenance, the only time it gets mistreated is on the recomended reciept inspection. That made me grimace a bit, but I guess it's the standard for HI khuks.
 
That's good, Gunner.
There's a lot of us who use the khukuris as tools and have learned to trust them. Right out of the box I saw that, these khukuris were serious. It was rare to find something that was acutally what the maker said it was.

I don't expect a new toaster to work.


munk
 
Satori said:
For the record, I learned the "woodchuck" method of tapping my way through from Hollowdweller. It's the only way to go with the lighter khukuris and works well enough with the larger ones. One really needs to see him in action to understand just how effective it can be.
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LOL...I've said the same...Hollow can nibble his way through stuff with a smaller khukuri like no one else I've seen. He's like an industrial chipper. Great technique and fun to watch the chips fly.

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Nasty said:
LOL...I've said the same...Hollow can nibble his way through stuff with a smaller khukuri like no one else I've seen. He's like an industrial chipper. Great technique and fun to watch the chips fly.

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Hollow must be part beaver, reckon? ;) :D
 
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