Heavy duty chop it all chopper recommendations?

Crag the Brewer said:
Oh....NOW Fun Has to be part of the criteria???
Haha.

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Heck no ! 🥵

A real manly man always chooses the most difficult , miserable and horrid tools, and hardest ways of doing things . :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

We deserve to suffer . 😨 It builds character !🤥
 
I dont have access to some of the great knife makers you have there in the US so from what I have or are available and of which are superb choppers -

My Parang heavy chandong duku, rat tail tang is bullet proof and is proven to take huge abuse adding to the exceptional balance of the blade.

Brisa Bigmuk

Terava Skrama 240 (as already recommended).
 
I just got a couple of odd-looking cheap machetes and I'm having a blast clearing branches with them. Get the cheap ones. They're better than some bigger names IMO and they come with wood handles and no edge, so you can sand the handles and put whatever edge on that you like. My impression is that they are real working tools made by and for people who use them every day.
 
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campandtravel said:
I just got a couple of odd-looking cheap machetes and I'm having a blast clearing branches with them. Get the cheap ones. They're better than some bigger names IMO and they come with wood handles and no edge, so you can sand the handles and put whatever edge on that you like. My impression is that they are real working tools made by and for people who use them every day.
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I was raised in Latin America and brought up using a machete from a very young age. One thing many folks down there do is NOT sharpen the first 6-7” in front of the handle. This allows for grasping it by the blade for doing more precise/delicate work when you don’t need the full leverage of swinging hard and holding farther back. Machetes are awesome and have many useful applications.
 
I have a Gerber BG parang (the shorter one) for chopping and destroying.

It was an impulse buy when gander mountain had a sale a bunch of years back.

It's cheap, it's badass, it's a fun design and it does it's job well. Never had a need for anything more expensive. Next step up is the camp axe.
 
DocJD said:
Not too great as either shovel , chopper or throwing weapon ...but kinda , sorta does it all "in a pinch" . 🤷‍♂


What he said. 🙂😂 It’s funny that the Spetsnaz shovel made it into a chopping thread. Although I have used mine for exactly that🤠. Also broke the handle throwing it, so I replaced it with an “indestructible” uhmm, baseball bat. 9DB6EC5B-3763-4F28-A6AF-8EF6C6163E27.jpegE71236B0-7FA2-4FA4-95C9-4EEEAAD1526B.jpeg
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DocJD said:
Love your handle repair !
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It was a bitch grinding down that polypropylene or whatever they call that handle material. But it works, and I think the shovel will break first now. 🤷🏻‍♂️😅. Now, back to chopping knives.
 
dirc said:
many threads here similar to this, you'd notice a high % of people giving great reviews of the Terävä Skrama

it uses 80crv2, and does an amazing all around job for whatever you throw at it
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My 240 should be here Friday. Woo!
 
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