log peeling with an ak.

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eastfork

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Hi everyone Iam a new join to the HIforum,anxiously awaiting a 16.5 Churawa from uncle bill. has anyone tried to peel house logs with an ak? recently purchased an atlanta cutlry kukri before i discovered the HI-IMPORTS web site and uncle bills products. wish I would have waited, tried to chop on a live cottenwood limb with the atlanta blade and was very dissapointed with the preformance. much to light for real work.Cant wait to get my HI-kukri and put it to the test. grate site best wishs to all forumites from the Eastfork.:D
 
Welcome, Eastfork.

I'll bet that any of the HI products 16" or above would have made short work of that cottonwood.

Don't have any personal experience peeling logs, but I'm sure someone here does. If the churawa doesn't handle it, one of the other khuks you buy will. And there WILL be others. I'm living proof.
 
eastfork. A friend of mine gave me one of those light indian made Atl Cut. khuks, after I'd had a few HI khuks. You are correct in saying "very dissapointed with the preformance. much to light for real work.".

There really is not much comparison.

Stick around, and check back daily, you may see a special deal or two on HI khuks...:)

Keith
 
Welcome, eastfork. I think Keith pretty much said it. Keep looking at the specials. You'll see the perfect one before too long.
 
Some wise guy once said "You never know what a good car is until you've driven a lemon."

I don't know how it applies, but I just wanted to type it.
 
Welcome, eastfork!! You'll enjoy the company here for sure and UBBB's and CPD's and the info and the fun and ........

Hoghead just gave me his Atlanta Cutlery khuk he got before he knew about HI. He said I could use it for gardening and playing in the dirt:rolleyes: I was amazed at the difference in it compared to the HI khuk's. Cheap is definitely the key word here. Maybe I can manage to hide it and forget about it:D There's truth in the belief that all HI's have a "spirit" and they have a way of finding their true soulmate.;)
 
I wouldn't use a khukuri to peel a log - I'd use a broad axe. Now, if I was stuck in the woods with only one khukuri and I had to peel a log to make a bench or table, etc. - then I'd go with something broad faced and easy to wield, namely a YCS of GRS.
 
I use my teeth, like the family of beavers that adopted me at birth taught me. Keeps the teeth inn good shape, keeps the khuk back fer serious chawin';)
 
I would sure use a khuk to peel a log. Any one of them that I can use as a draw knife can be used to peel a log. I would not recommend a broad axe to peel cedar logs to build a house. The cedar logs do not have thick enough bark to use an axe of any kind. Some of my neighbors who have built log houses here used draw knives to peel the logs. So, I guess a khuk wouldn't really be a bad tool for the job. I would keep some diesel fuel or alcohol to clean the blade once in a while.:) :D
 
Pappy, as usual has good advice. I don't know about peelin' cottonwood as I've never had any experience with the bigger trees.
The saplin's peel right nice with a khuk though as we sometimes use them for or in place of wilow for a Sweatlodge frame.

By the way, welcome to the Psycho Ward Eastfork!!!!:)
Like people some trees got thicker skin than others and so are easier to peel, although the thin skinned ones come of in long tearing strips while leaving the tree sore and bleedin', just like peeples.;)

Aho, Mitakue Oyasin!!!!Hayv!!!!:D :D
 
Your getting almost as bad as me with the reading. The young man was trying to chop Cottonwood limbs with an Atlanta Cutlery Khuk. Didn't have much success. I still have the one my son left here almost a year ago and he has been here several times and doesn't want it back so, I'll leave it hanging here till some one wants it.

Eastfork, I sure didn't intend to be rude. Welcome to the cantina. Stick around, you may just get to like this place. Its the best bunch that I have run into on the net and, the forums too if you ask me. :) :D
 
Perhaps I jumped to conclusions...:rolleyes:

I assumed you would be flattening 4 sides of the log - like the cabins built here in the East.

For just peeling a log - any ole khuk would work fine - though, I still prefer the deeper bellies.

Watch out for deflections. I've had enough myself that I now peel or chop a log, with a small piece of wood at the bottom to "catch" the deflected blade.

Best-o-luck!

Dan
 
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