Most Massive Camp/Chopper/Survival knives ?

Those HI are truly massive, but they not very useful and their steel/edge holding is nothing to write home about it... The best practical large chopper ever made: Busse Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress, hands down!
 
Start with a Scrap Yard Dogfather LE or try a Busse FBM.
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When it gets serious try a Double Bit axe by Lee Reeves or do a semi Custom of your own to suit your needs like SOG Hawk with Ti Handle...
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Outdoors Fanatic said:
Those HI are truly massive, but they not very useful and their steel/edge holding is nothing to write home about it... The best practical large chopper ever made: Busse Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress, hands down!
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The NMFBM is a great knife, but the rest of your statement holds no water.
 
Outdoors Fanatic said:
Those HI are truly massive, but they not very useful and their steel/edge holding is nothing to write home about it... The best practical large chopper ever made: Busse Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress, hands down!
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Not so sure about that, for hundreds of year people have rely on that type of blade. Khukuri as well as other traditional blade like golok, mandau, parang, etc have been used extensively by the people who realy using their knives everyday.
 
Outdoors Fanatic said:
Those HI are truly massive, but they not very useful and their steel/edge holding is nothing to write home about it... The best practical large chopper ever made: Busse Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress, hands down!
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The HI blades come in all lengths and weights and thicknesses. They are useful, and their edgeholding abilities are generally quite good, certainly good enough for chopping wood.

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I have used many different types of khuks for clearing brush and chopping up limbs. My opinion is that the majority of the medium sized (length and weight) of khuks are useful for this purpose, while the largest are just too large (heavy) for extended use.

I have no complaint about their edge holding ability. I have often chopped very hard, dead oak, and was still able to slice paper afterwards.

For the price, they are difficult to beat.

Andy
 
Here are some of mine although I don't own all of them anymore.
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DFLE ,Busse SH-E and a rosarms Baby.
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I would love this barkie Hudson bay knife.
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Here is one of my dream knives ,the Winkler comp bowie.
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I have scored another dream bowie from a buddy on the Canadian Gunnutz forum who made it to my specs. Here is what it can do with one swing to a 3 inch adler.
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No pictures yet but I just finished a knife with a 13 inch blade and five inch handle. It's 2 1/4 inches tall. About 1/8 thick. So far the only testing was chopping a pine 4x4 in half and then putting it a vice and struck it hard sideways with a 24 oz Estwing framing hammer three times with no damage. I did a Convex grind on it.
 
Outdoors Fanatic said:
Those HI are truly massive, but they not very useful and their steel/edge holding is nothing to write home about it... The best practical large chopper ever made: Busse Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress, hands down!
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I think you are off the mark regarding HI. I got my first look at a NMFBM this past weekend, and it is an impressive blade, but HI khukuris are no slouches. I have had no problems with its edge holding ability, and I find it to be a very useful knife.

If you need more proof about the usefulness of a khukuri, take a look at this video recently posted in the HI forum:

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The most massive would have to be some manner of khuk. I swear I once saw a photo of someone holding a 3 foot long ang khola like khukri about to behead a water buffalo.
 
i would say the HI khuks probably get to be the biggest ranging upwards of 25 inches or so. Personally i wouldnt get one bigger than 18 inches...cause...well im a small guy.

also, in that video...thats not how you prepare a pineapple :P
 
+1 on the Busse NMFBM. It is the largest chopper I own, and the amount of destruction it can dish out is downright scary. The NMFBM is like the freak child of a sledgehammer and a straight razor- combining the hitting power and indestructibility of the sledge with the sharpness of a razor. You can sever tree limbs with it all day and then shave with it.

But the NMFBM only has a 11.5" blade. In terms of size, there are plenty of machetes and kukris out there that are bigger. But once you get above 12" or so, I don't think you're really talking about "knives" anymore, you're talking about swords.
 
What about Dave Rishar's 40" Ganga Ram? That's the biggest ever made I bet.
 

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Here are the two largest knives I have in my collection that I still consider knives and not swords.

Criswell Bowie (13" blade .25" thick A2 tool steel)
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Siegle 300 Head Splitter (About 15" blade .25" thick 5160) This is the prototype... mine has Black Micarta handles instead of green G10

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My best is a ceremonial kukri with a blade of around 34" inches. They are generally used for animal sacrifice I believe.
It's silver plated, and of excellent quality. The two utility knives must have had blades of around 5/6" inches judging by the sheath, but they are sadly not present.
 
Man the kukri is one of the best bush blades ever made as far as I am concerned. Thank you Nepalese Gurkahs....
 
I don't know about what I've seen; the heaviest I have would probably be a BRKT Golok; I also have a Swamp Rat Camp Tramp that's pretty heavy duty. Next would be a vintage Cold Steel Trailmaster.
 
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