Philosophy of expensive large thick chopper?

most of the assertions made by Smoking, regarding choppers, are incorrect.

That said, I just love a big chopper. This one, made by Tim Olt, is .28 thick. A2 Steel. It's a chopping beast, lots of fun to use, and goes on a lot of camping trips.
 
I love knives of all shapes and sizes. I use a chopper for batoning firewood. Like another member said, if you don't like it don't buy it. Why not talk about something you like instead of starting a negative thread.
 
SMOKING said:
I see very little practicality of the very thick knife like 5/16 inches thick with 8-12 inches blade lenght.

They are weight pretty much the same to a good axe while the axe will out chopped/out batoned them by large margin.

They are also not very good in the kitchen and too big to put in the bag and go hiking.
Well made medium size fixed blade can get the baton work done too while being much more comfortable to carry.

They barely a good self defense tool


Or just because some people have buck to spend on some cool zombie behead gear?
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I'm unaware of any choppers that are 5/16ths thick. That said, I understand the philosophy of large choppers quite well. Where I'm from I have use for an ax and a machete. I typically leave the ax at home unless I need to process a lot of wood. My personal opinion, it is better to bring a chopper if you plan on bringing anything smaller than a 20 inch ax.
Nowadays, the chopper and my saw do 90% of my work and my 4 inch blade does the rest. I've been on the look out for a birch stacked puukko to cut down on more weight.
Regardless, large choppers are cool toys to have.
 
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