machete

The condor eco is the same blade used by the esee machete. The entire condor line is allot of bang for the buck. Being imacasa's,but better finished.

Trams, ontario, condor, imacasa, esee, and the mora 333 light machete are hard to beat. I shy away from gerbers, cold stel, etc. Not that they are complete garbage.....rather they offer the same or less than those other brands for more money.
 
Tramontina fan here. I've used them on 5 continents and never had one fail. Very inexpensive and easy to maintain in the field. The factory "edge" needs quite a bit of work when you bring it home, though.
 
If I could only have one blade, in a survival situation, I think it would be a machete. But that thought doesn't stop me from buying and enjoying commercial knives from the major brands such as Spyderco, Benchmade and Boker. Yet even with a good collection of premium blades, I still think the machete is the most versatile blade around.

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Gerber brush axe. Don't laugh, as much as I'd like to hate on Gerber, it does the job.
 
^Hope I don't sound rude correcting, but it's actually a billhook. A brush axe is a very different animal. ;):thumbup:

I have lots of potential suggestions, but they depend on your intended uses and environment. Gotta' pick the right one for your targets and uses! What will you be cutting, where will you be cutting it, and for what purpose? :)
 
Hi Forty Two Blades - the trouble us Gerber don't know any better - someone in Fiskars, the parent comany who designed it, translated the Finnish 'vesuri' into US 'brush hook', instead of GB 'billhook' - and the name stuck (even in the UK where it is sold under the Wilkinson Sword brand-name - it is still called a brush hook, and that's a name we have never used this side of the pond)!!! Personally, and I'm prejudiced, for general work I would rate a billhook as a better tool than either a machete or an axe....
 
Treerooster,
Check out Condor and Tramontina then get a hold of 42blades and let him hook you up. I've recently bought a Condor tomahawk from him and he's great to deal with. He always checks the product before shipping anything out and really does a great job of taking care of his customers.
 
Billman1949 said:
Hi Forty Two Blades - the trouble us Gerber don't know any better - someone in Fiskars, the parent comany who designed it, translated the Finnish 'vesuri' into US 'brush hook', instead of GB 'billhook' - and the name stuck (even in the UK where it is sold under the Wilkinson Sword brand-name - it is still called a brush hook, and that's a name we have never used this side of the pond)!!! Personally, and I'm prejudiced, for general work I would rate a billhook as a better tool than either a machete or an axe....
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Yup! A brush hook would be an appropriate name, though. A brush AXE on the other hand is a specific tool with an axe eye/haft and hooked blade. And I love me a good billhook, though the typical blade length makes them best for when you want a shorter tool, though as you well know longer patterns exist (though rarer.) They tend to be a little more specialized than most machete patterns as well, but they're right handy in my neck of the woods like they are in yours! It's called New England for a reason! :D

Love the new site by the way. :thumbup:
 
I'm a huge tramontina fan I really dig the super thin profile of the blades also they happen to be very inexpensive.
 
i just ordered a cs magnum kukri for 17 bucks (that includes shipping) off ebay. sorta hard to go wrong there. I know i gotta sharpen it but I can put an edge which will pop off free hanging hair pretty quickly so thats not a problem.
 
eccvets said:
i just ordered a cs magnum kukri for 17 bucks (that includes shipping) off ebay. sorta hard to go wrong there. I know i gotta sharpen it but I can put an edge which will pop off free hanging hair pretty quickly so thats not a problem.
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And for those who do have a problem with sharpening them up there happens to be a source for fully sharpened convexed ones. :D
 
Yes--I find it to be a square vs. rectangle circumstance. Brush hook can be used interchangeably for either a billhook or brush axe, but brush axe may not be used to describe a billhook.

In recombinant pairings if we assign Brush Axe the label "A", Brush Hook label "B", and Billhook label "C" then A=B, B=C, but A≠C. At least as far as my understanding goes. Cool old catalogue page!

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