What knife would hold a good edge to cut open round bales

Fällkniven workhorse if you're ok with the price.

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I know a guy that sells flowers that loves his because it wont dull cutting plants.
 
nlewman said:
Wasn't the hay knife intended to cut hay out of a pile? It fell out of use after round bales, iirc

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It cuts hay from stacks, but also works nicely for opening up a round bale when you want to meter out the feed instead of allowing the critters to just go to town on the whole thing.

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To cut the nesting off I got a Benchmade seatbelt cutter!,,, works good,, sharpen on Spyderco triangle or small ceramic rod!
 
DPC said:
Fällkniven workhorse if you're ok with the price.

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I know a guy that sells flowers that loves his because it wont dull cutting plants.
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I think most knives would have not trouble cutting plants :P.


Connor
 
ConBon said:
I think most knives would have not trouble cutting plants :P.


Connor
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They get surprisingly dull surprisingly fast.

Not even "thick edge" dull, with time you can even see the recurve that forms from all the dulling and re-sharpening.
 
We almost always had frozen bales, so we used an ax more often than not. polypropylene twine was cut selectively so we could remove it, sisel or hemp was just chopped up. when things weren't frozen we used a lino-knife, or whatever was to hand. targeted cutting is the idea, so anything with a hawkbill? Maybe one of the spyderco hawkbill patterns, just not H1, since corrosion is not a problem and edges are.

I'd be thinking ease of sharpening over edge retention. A good knife is never a waste of money, but that's one of the most brutal things you can put a knife through, as bad as cutting cardboard, there is a reason its used for testing. Keep thinking on it, I'm sure something will come up.

If you don't mind going to a fixed blade, a stainless mora might be the ticket.
 
[video=youtube;B9n_DhFjXS0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9n_DhFjXS0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

About halfway through the length of the bale there was a big ol' chunk of wood and the knife zipped right through it. Would have put a still of it in the video, but since upgrading Mac OSX to El Capitan, iMovie is glitching with still images and blacks them all out.
 
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FortyTwoBlades said:
[video=youtube;B9n_DhFjXS0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9n_DhFjXS0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

About halfway through the length of the bale there was a big ol' chunk of wood and the knife zipped right through it. Would have put a still of it in the video, but since upgrading Mac OSX to El Capitan, iMovie is glitching with still images and blacks them all out.
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Really like a hay saw... :) But definely does a great job.

I've had no issues with cutting twine off bales with whatever folder is in my pocket. Typically a M390, S90V or CPM 10V blade at Rc 62+ So edge retention is high... But I'd be at it a day to cut a round bale up like that with one.
 
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