Hurricane Gustav

[Darteres]

Pleased to say that my 18 in m-43 has successfully chopped it's way through everything that Gustav could knock down in my yard, up to and including a 12 in diam pine tree. Actually, it chopped through the tree several times, since I can't pick up the whole tree. No knicks, dings, rolled edges after three days of steady use. Unfortunately, it's pretty dull now, so I'm going to get to spend a few hours with some sandpaper. Darn.

 

[Original]

Good deal, bet ya have some blisters to fix also. They sure are a hard working tool.

Glad you got thru the storm ok.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Hope ya wore gloves!

Glad to hear it held up for ya.
You might want to consider getting something like a fine diafold diamond hone that fits in your pocket, so you can tough up as you go for prolonged work sessions, rather than let it get real dull.

 

[Darteres]

I wore gloves and would run a file across the edge every 30 min or so. Not to take off a lot of metal, but it kept a good edge on it. Now that I'm done, I get to have that pretty convex shaving sharp edge back.

 

[wildmike]

I took my M-43 jeeping with a friend of mine. Even though he hed seen the cabin I built with it he still couldn't believe the size chips it threw when clearing a couple trees off the trail. It cut better chunks than even larger axes.

 

[winkleried]

Yep that would mathch my experience with the M-43. Expect fot one ding due to some hidden steel wire that put an extremely small ding in my blade.
It is one hard working blade.

Marc Adkins

Pleased to say that my 18 in m-43 has successfully chopped it's way through everything that Gustav could knock down in my yard, up to and including a 12 in diam pine tree. Actually, it chopped through the tree several times, since I can't pick up the whole tree. No knicks, dings, rolled edges after three days of steady use. Unfortunately, it's pretty dull now, so I'm going to get to spend a few hours with some sandpaper. Darn.