The other day i went down to help my father-in-law set a deer stand in the woods behind his house. It is a ground blind my son made that weighs about a ton, we loaded it on a trailer and hooked the trailer to the 4 wheeler and before we left i picked up my US marked ontario machete. It's been years since i had call to use a machete and had forgotten how well it worked. I was quite impressed with how well it worked for clearing everything from brush on up to small tree limbs. it worked great. about the only thing better was an old kukri i had years ago. So if you don't have one,get one. you'll need it sometime.ahgar