United Cutlery Survival Kukri Sawback Machete

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Just to add something positive here, it looks like it could probably make a fairly good knock around blade for your shrubbery or back yard garden. You could abuse the heck out of it and avoid using your more valuable blades on such mundane tasks. Then, when you pack your gear to go out into the woods and play mountain man, you can leave this thing hanging in the tool shed and strap on whatever knife, kukri, machete, sword, or axe you have the most confidence in, and blaze your own new trail.

Yep, that's it. But the sawback is totally useless and only serves to hurt yourself. On mine (I did not know it was United Cutlery, it was sold by a hunting supply store) I took the sawback off with an angle grinder, and now it is sort of a bolo as I kept the point. This thing is too thick to be a really effective chopper of green vines, but you can still bludgeon stuff with it. I keep it in my car for that reason, and just this morning chopped my way through a narrow trail invaded by thorny vines to make way for my balloon chase vehicle (with a balloon you often land in strange places; do not mind scratching your vehicle during retrieval).
My Tramontina 14-inch Bolo leaves this thing in the dust, of course. No contest. Half the weight, ten times as effective.
The thick blade of the colombian sawback, once you have ground off the sawback (!), is good for batoning logs of firewood. ;-) With the sawback it sucks.

 

[marcinek]

I've been raised from the dead!

Really though, ANY thread I opened more than deserves to be zombied. Pure gold, baby.

And that knife probably hasn't gotten any less silly looking as time has passed.

 

[22-rimfire]

Every saw back design I have looked at or tried to use have been ineffective. You think with the saw back that you can leave the saw at home, but that simply is not the case. I have to admit that they look interesting and the whole point is to sell stuff. Most people aren't like me with a small pile of machetes or machete choppers. They have one and the saw back attracts attention.... hmmm, maybe it might be useful.......

Yes, this thread was raised from the dead. Perhaps it should be a discussion on saw back designs in general on machetes versus a specific machete. Still an apt topic from my point of view.

 

[NJBillK]

I was always under the impression that the United Cutlery brand always worked better as the bumpers and hubcaps that they prior to being made into knives.

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