Pointless thread - just some bad pics of my afternoon's light chopping

No worries, Tim. Jerry's not thin-skinned about blade competition--he practically invented it. (well...the "modern" version) :D
 
Browning Crowell/Barker 580 Competition Chopper.

This one was re-handled and re-profiled with a thinner edge by Bark River Knives.

[video=youtube;MMkQOvB2HOA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMkQOvB2HOA[/video]
 
Hey Tim, this is a great thread of user shots.
Isn't it fun to make threads like this?

No worries on comparing stuff. That Bladesport chopper kinda reminds me of an FBM LE with a thinner edge and the front 2 inches squared off.
I have thought about sending in an NMFBM to have it flat ground & thinned to .23-.25 so it would lose some weight and chop even better, but that would just make it a fancy handled B11, so I have decided against it for cost reasons.

That cable saw is a hard one to use in my experience, but it makes a decent emergency snare and cuts through soft but thick green branches pretty well. The chain version is much nicer.
 
AZTimT said:
Hey Tim, this is a great thread of user shots.
Isn't it fun to make threads like this?

No worries on comparing stuff. That Bladesport chopper kinda reminds me of an FBM LE with a thinner edge and the front 2 inches squared off.
I have thought about sending in an NMFBM to have it flat ground & thinned to .23-.25 so it would lose some weight and chop even better, but that would just make it a fancy handled B11, so I have decided against it for cost reasons.

That cable saw is a hard one to use in my experience, but it makes a decent emergency snare and cuts through soft but thick green branches pretty well. The chain version is much nicer.
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Hey Tim

Yeah it is fun but the kudos go to my wife for the awesome job she did on the videos. She held that little Blackberry cell-phone so still it looked like it was on a tripod, even when wood chips were hitting her in the face and two boisterous pups were running into her, she did not flinch.

On that note, I was just reading TNT's thread about "Conclusive-signs-you-married-a-Hog", and the "following your husband around with a camera" one made me smile.

Thanks, your post made me decide to take the FBMLE out for some fun today.
 
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l2lku2 said:
I want to stress that I mean no disrespect to Busse when I post anything about non-Bussekin knives in this forum. With the exception of an odd post in other places I post almost exclusively in the Busse forum because this is where I feel most at home within the larger BF community. Bussekin constitutes the vast majority of my collection and will continue to grow more than any other.
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I wasn't talkin bout you, I was talking about me wanting the 171.... anyway until I can get one I love reading your reviews and seeing the chopping videos :thumbup:
 
drbarnes said:
I wasn't talkin bout you, I was talking about me wanting the 171.... anyway until I can get one I love reading your reviews and seeing the chopping videos :thumbup:
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Yes, apologies, I realized you were talking about you, not me. My post was not a response to yours, I was just opportunistic and used your phrase as a lead-in to my post as I had the same concern even before your post. Sorry for the confusion.
 
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I have been doing a lot of chopping the last few weeks to test my knives and I took a few videos today, mostly for my own records, but some of you may find them informative. Apologies, they are not good quality. They were unplanned and shot with a Blackberry and an iPhone (at dusk) by my son.

I shot a few more but they are hard to watch because I struggled a lot today with the knives getting stuck in the dry wood.

I will use my HD camera and shoot a few better quality videos in the next few days.

Here is one with the B11 Asym, FBMLE and Becker BK9.

[video=youtube_share;EDFRbRtScXA]http://youtu.be/EDFRbRtScXA[/video]

And another with the B11 Asym

[video=youtube_share;PSz1_b7zXqA]http://youtu.be/PSz1_b7zXqA[/video]
 
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