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Greetings fellow sufferers of HIKV, Hopefully I can get some pics up and running so you all can see just what I have been putting a number of HI and non HI products through.
Background ( for the newbies): Purchased a house up in Tulsa OK. Property had been neglected for ten years and used as the local illegal dump, managed to put a ding in my new M-43 blade when I discovered a cog up in a tree covered by vines........
Lately we have been doing some pretty heavy lumberjacking and vine hacking in order to discover the property line boundry in order to plan the fenceline. Even invested in goats to help chew thier way through the worst of the vines, (Poison Ivy, Wild Rose, Greenbriar and Honeysuckle (?)) Kuks have been worn acting as small belt machetes to cut through the low overhanging vines and small limbs. And the damage from one of the worst Ice Storms to hit this area in a long time. Trees bent over double etc.
Right now the Kukris of choice have been a 16.5 WWII and a non HI (when I start getting too close to metal, As in what happened tot he M-43) this thing has chewed up what ever I get into. If it looks too big I either get an axe or I trek up the hill and get either the M-43 or the Dui Chirra. I have even been known to wear both the WWII and the M-43 front to back. Talk about something that'll pull your pants down
Main brush has been small diameter ( <24") hardwoods (Oak,Hackberry, Mulberry, Elm and an unidentified hardwood) all wrapped in various vines. all the kukris have hacked through what I need them to do and in various stages of seasoning ( completly green to completly rotten)
As we fell the trees (normaly with an axe) we pull them and pile them up in the backyard. Mama decieded that it was time to start cutting the piles into firewood so she can walk to her garden with out tripping and falling.
Out comes the WWII and a CS Trail Hawk and a Chineese boys axe with a replaced handle. I normally use this axe for delimbing, well the handle broke again. ( with the use I have been putting it through I'm surprised it didn't go sooner) so I was forced to use the WWII for delimbing. Not exactly my most favorite idea, particulalry since I was with out gloves at this point.
Well it performed in true HI form and didn't give me a lick of problems other than in some seasoned wood that I just brut force powered through. Might have to see about picking up it's bigger brother in a few months. only one knot stopped it in it's tracks but it also slowed down the CS Hawk as well so I won't hold it against it. I plan on honeing the WWII and seeing if anything happened to the edge or not. although I pretty sure it will comeback to it's original sharpness quickly.
I am planning on seeing what the Malla will do tomorrow, since we are mainly delimbing or maybe wearing the WWII and Malla Combo.
Just to give an idea how bad it is I figured out everthing that had broken doing the cleanup
1 double bit Axe handle
1 single bit handle
1 single bit replacement handle
2 Boys axe handles
1 single edged Bush hook handle (original)
2 shovel handles
1 rake handle
1 hoe handle
1 Pole Saw Shaft
1 dinged up Austrian Scythe blade
1 Nubian Goat
after some pretty solid use the HI's are going strong, no loose handles, no rolled edges, no loose bolsters or buttcaps,.
I have had a problem with my BAS with a chipped handle but I think it was a matter of the Autistic one playing with it while I was on the road. found it under a blanket in the tool room with part of the heel that rests on the buttcap chipped/sheared off. But since it wasn't a casuality of the clean up I am treating it as a seperate case. I will be contact Auntie Yangdu about it soonish.
So far the following HI blades have been involved in the clean up
BAS
M-43
16.5 WWII
Dui Chirra W/ Extended tool kit
Malla
I have been very impressed with what these blades have put up with and still kept coming. Hopefully the financial deities are going to smile on me and I will be able to add the 18" WWII to the mix and see what it can do.
I will try to get some pics and hopefully video up and wait to hear back from the HI family.
Ok gotta go, Mama's paging me
Marc Adkins
Background ( for the newbies): Purchased a house up in Tulsa OK. Property had been neglected for ten years and used as the local illegal dump, managed to put a ding in my new M-43 blade when I discovered a cog up in a tree covered by vines........
Lately we have been doing some pretty heavy lumberjacking and vine hacking in order to discover the property line boundry in order to plan the fenceline. Even invested in goats to help chew thier way through the worst of the vines, (Poison Ivy, Wild Rose, Greenbriar and Honeysuckle (?)) Kuks have been worn acting as small belt machetes to cut through the low overhanging vines and small limbs. And the damage from one of the worst Ice Storms to hit this area in a long time. Trees bent over double etc.
Right now the Kukris of choice have been a 16.5 WWII and a non HI (when I start getting too close to metal, As in what happened tot he M-43) this thing has chewed up what ever I get into. If it looks too big I either get an axe or I trek up the hill and get either the M-43 or the Dui Chirra. I have even been known to wear both the WWII and the M-43 front to back. Talk about something that'll pull your pants down
Main brush has been small diameter ( <24") hardwoods (Oak,Hackberry, Mulberry, Elm and an unidentified hardwood) all wrapped in various vines. all the kukris have hacked through what I need them to do and in various stages of seasoning ( completly green to completly rotten)
As we fell the trees (normaly with an axe) we pull them and pile them up in the backyard. Mama decieded that it was time to start cutting the piles into firewood so she can walk to her garden with out tripping and falling.
Out comes the WWII and a CS Trail Hawk and a Chineese boys axe with a replaced handle. I normally use this axe for delimbing, well the handle broke again. ( with the use I have been putting it through I'm surprised it didn't go sooner) so I was forced to use the WWII for delimbing. Not exactly my most favorite idea, particulalry since I was with out gloves at this point.
Well it performed in true HI form and didn't give me a lick of problems other than in some seasoned wood that I just brut force powered through. Might have to see about picking up it's bigger brother in a few months. only one knot stopped it in it's tracks but it also slowed down the CS Hawk as well so I won't hold it against it. I plan on honeing the WWII and seeing if anything happened to the edge or not. although I pretty sure it will comeback to it's original sharpness quickly.
I am planning on seeing what the Malla will do tomorrow, since we are mainly delimbing or maybe wearing the WWII and Malla Combo.
Just to give an idea how bad it is I figured out everthing that had broken doing the cleanup
1 double bit Axe handle
1 single bit handle
1 single bit replacement handle
2 Boys axe handles
1 single edged Bush hook handle (original)
2 shovel handles
1 rake handle
1 hoe handle
1 Pole Saw Shaft
1 dinged up Austrian Scythe blade
1 Nubian Goat
after some pretty solid use the HI's are going strong, no loose handles, no rolled edges, no loose bolsters or buttcaps,.
I have had a problem with my BAS with a chipped handle but I think it was a matter of the Autistic one playing with it while I was on the road. found it under a blanket in the tool room with part of the heel that rests on the buttcap chipped/sheared off. But since it wasn't a casuality of the clean up I am treating it as a seperate case. I will be contact Auntie Yangdu about it soonish.
So far the following HI blades have been involved in the clean up
BAS
M-43
16.5 WWII
Dui Chirra W/ Extended tool kit
Malla
I have been very impressed with what these blades have put up with and still kept coming. Hopefully the financial deities are going to smile on me and I will be able to add the 18" WWII to the mix and see what it can do.
I will try to get some pics and hopefully video up and wait to hear back from the HI family.
Ok gotta go, Mama's paging me
Marc Adkins
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