Khuk vs hedge trimmer

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mpteach

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I have no doubt khuks are lightyears faster than loppers. Can a khuk wielder hold his own with a powered hedge trimmer or even win?
 
John Henry "beat dat steam drill down" before dyin' wit his hammer in his hand- so I say YES, a reasonably fit Khuk knut could more than hold his/her own against hedge clippers. :cool::D;)
 
So then the answer is No? Seriously all these khuks and you havent tried cutting your bushes with one? ARe they all shelf pieces?
 
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ARe they all shelf pieces?
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Heck no... I've cut down and limbed numerous trees with mine... but the branches of a hedge are a different animal, thin and springy. Trying to trim them with the average khuk would probably only be a bit more effective than doing so with a sharp hatchet or axe, the Kumar Kobra being a possible exception. If one had to use a non-clipper blade for hedge trimming, they'd probably want something lighter and thinner... a sharp, short machete, golok, what have you.
 
CS is exactly right. Now entirely taking out the hedge, down at the ground level, there's a different story. A khuk is a chopper not a trimmer.
Sometimes its a draw knife...or a shaper ;)
 
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I have a 20.25" 24oz sirupati which is great for that purpose.

I also have a 20" Ang Khola which was outpacing a chainsaw for de-limbing downed trees.

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Thats pretty cool. Was the ang khola a whole lot more fatiguing than than the heavy chainsaw for delimbing? How much did you outpace the chainsaw by?

Obviously i was assuming a light sirupati or something along that lines. With all the collecting here im sure you all have one... It would take a John henry to trim bushes with an ang khola. I wouldn't be surprised if a khuk could beat my cordless trimmer but i wonder how it would fare against gas or good corded. For a free form style cutting of course not a tight box hedge.
 
mpteach said:
So then the answer is No? Seriously all these khuks and you havent tried cutting your bushes with one? ARe they all shelf pieces?
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It's a matter of suitability for the task at hand. In my opinion, electric hedge clippers would do a faster job than any bladed tool for cutting very thin (1/16" to 1/4"), springy shoots.

A chainsaw or even a bow saw would be better for trees 4" and up, for me at least.

But my Chiruwa AK is my go-to tool for most everything else. It is always fueled up, always starts, and rarely needs tuned up. :D Dang purty too.

Steve
 
My chainpuri works ok for hedges, but isn't ideal. My AK and WWII, no way. However, my favorite delimbing tool for downed trees is my WWII ~ beats an axe or hatchet for sure.
 
mpteach said:
Thats pretty cool. Was the ang khola a whole lot more fatiguing than than the heavy chainsaw for delimbing? How much did you outpace the chainsaw by?
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Dad was using the chainsaw at the time. I was going through each branch with one or two strikes where he had to buzz through them. By the time he had buzzed through his first, I had already sliced through my third branch.

It doesn't fatigue me much because it's my #1 work khukuri and the only way to go (IMO) for heavy chopping chores. I'm used to it. My AK has butchered many a downed tree.
 
It would have been nice for today's invasive-plant removal at the Nature Preserve: oh, the HORROR of using the Weed Wrench!
 
I'm buying a khuk, if it would be useful on my jobs then i would get one longer and lighter than i otherwise would. I clear lots of bushes and plants, sometimes a tree branch or two back several feet from houses so i can do my prep and painting.

My cordless trimmer cannot handle the thick diameter bush branches that the medium and thin stuff is attached too. I often trim back several feet and years of overgrowth from the house. Any khuk would beat out the loppers for sure, but im wondering about the hedger. Circling around houses crawling through overgrown bushes between the house and trees means i really don't want to try and deal with cords. A good gas hedge trimmer would be expensive and then id have to deal with the noise gas and oil. If a khuck would work at a comparable speed or faster id go for that. I was thinking about a sirupati or light chitlangi 21" long.
 
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mpteach said:
I'm buying a khuk, if it would be useful on my jobs then i would get one longer and lighter than i otherwise would. I clear lots of bushes and plants, sometimes a tree branch or two back several feet from houses so i can do my prep and painting.

My cordless trimmer cannot handle the thick diameter bush branches that the medium and thin stuff is attached too. I often trim back several feet and years of overgrowth from the house. Any khuk would beat out the loppers for sure, but im wondering about the hedger. Circling around houses crawling through overgrown bushes between the house and trees means i really don't want to try and deal with cords. A good gas hedge trimmer would be expensive and then id have to deal with the noise gas and oil. If a khuck would work at a comparable speed or faster id go for that. I was thinking about a sirupati or light chitlangi 21" long.
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The chitlangi will be a little heavier and broader, and therefore a better chopper. The sirupati will be lighter and narrower and give you more velocity.

Here's an Ang Khola, Chitlangi, and Sirupati all in the same size class to illustrate:
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kobra works fine.
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doggies used to run between the yellow bush to the right of the sundial and the darker green one, which were quite close, they scratched themselves so i cut a straight path for them. took a couple of minutes by khuk, chainsaw would have taken longer to check, fuel, start, cut, clean off, maintain, etc. i expected it to push the leaves aside while cutting the stems, but it cut them clean like a scissors would, all in all khuk cut like a light sabre. the bush along the fence was recently trimmed with same, while the yellow bush was mostly 1/8-1/4 light stuff, the dark green bits sticking thru the fence were up to 1 in. but fell just as easily to the light sabre.
 
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