Lots of practice, and one of the heavier khukuri designs. Also, are you cutting dead wood or live? Live is much easier to cut. Just as a wild guesstimate, I'd say a 1.5"-2" dried and seasoned branch is about as hard to cut as a 3" live one. And the type of tree. A lot of soft pines up here.
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I like to practice my cuts on wild grape vines. Most of my khukuris (after I sharpen them) can go through a vine the diameter of my wrist in one clean hit.
My heavier/wider khukuris (AK, Super CAK, M43, 26" Chitlangi)can do that same trick... with hardwoods.
My heavier/wider khukuris (AK, Super CAK, M43, 26" Chitlangi)can do that same trick... with hardwoods.
My comment refers to the couple of times that I've been hacking away at all-too-LIVE examples of this stuff:
Behold! The Wax-leaf Ligustrum, Ligustrum japonicum (aka Japanese Privet). The predominant invasive plant in our part of Texas, this is the main target of every volunteer outing I take the M43 on, the "monster" that (among other things) I bought it to slay. (This has only been about 2 trips, though.)
We hate this plant; we loathe this plant. We call it "disgustrum," as a joke. We'd waterboard this plant, if Congress would let us. Irresistible to birds, with super-rapid growth, roots as thick as phone cable (sometimes growing together between plants), it chokes out every other plant underneath, and takes over acres of greenery. The only reason we don't nuke it, is because we're afraid it would grow faster. It's foul, foul, FOUL stuff!:barf: :thumbdn:
It's very live, very green, very soft, and stringy in the bark; lousy for chopping. Coupled with the fact that I'd only had the khuk for a couple of days when I started, and hadn't learned to chop OR convex the edge yet, it worked, but not yet with the effectiveness you describe. Of course, since then, I've learned to hack all the way through a 2" pice of corn-on-the-cob, using it in the kitchen, so maybe the next workday will yield better results. But I'm not up to 3" one-swipes, just yet.
Behold! The Wax-leaf Ligustrum, Ligustrum japonicum (aka Japanese Privet). The predominant invasive plant in our part of Texas, this is the main target of every volunteer outing I take the M43 on, the "monster" that (among other things) I bought it to slay. (This has only been about 2 trips, though.)
We hate this plant; we loathe this plant. We call it "disgustrum," as a joke. We'd waterboard this plant, if Congress would let us. Irresistible to birds, with super-rapid growth, roots as thick as phone cable (sometimes growing together between plants), it chokes out every other plant underneath, and takes over acres of greenery. The only reason we don't nuke it, is because we're afraid it would grow faster. It's foul, foul, FOUL stuff!:barf: :thumbdn:
It's very live, very green, very soft, and stringy in the bark; lousy for chopping. Coupled with the fact that I'd only had the khuk for a couple of days when I started, and hadn't learned to chop OR convex the edge yet, it worked, but not yet with the effectiveness you describe. Of course, since then, I've learned to hack all the way through a 2" pice of corn-on-the-cob, using it in the kitchen, so maybe the next workday will yield better results. But I'm not up to 3" one-swipes, just yet.