Here's a little update to this thread.
Well, since this thread started I've spent every weekend at our country house/"cabbin" clearing scrub, cutting down trees and arguing with a stuborn piece of scrapmetal of a %¤&¤/£$ lawn mower. MY "15 AK get a lot of work to do, particularly limbing and chopping down thinner trees/deadwood in the veritable forest of trees on the rugged 6500 m²/1.6 acre property. The property, except the imediate area around the houses, haven't really been tended for about 35 years and it's covered with tall tv and celullar-signal killing pines and monumental birches. Considering my equipment (normal garded tools, hatchet, khukuri and a small chainsaw) and the fact that everything have to be dragged or carried before the ground is cleaned reasonably up with a rake makes it slow going. I'll likely be thinning out and tending the forrest as well as completely clearing part of it for for years and years to come.
On a side note. Quite frankly, dropping a 30-50cm/10-20inch thick pine that might be more than 10-15 meters/30-50ft tall is a task that demands respect even if it might look easy. Where to lay it down and how to get it to fall precisely in a tight area while having retreat possibilities for yourself and not getting the chainsaw stuck are things you need to have very much in mind. Even when cutting the tree up to relatively small logs, they weight is on the borderline of what a grown man can handle (easily at least 50kg/110lbs and upwards to twice that). Try to carry that over soft, uneven ground.
The first shot is of the most imediate area to the main building. Mostly everything you see was completely covered in thick raspberry shrub a few weeks ago. You can probably just see the border between the old lawn and the cleared area in the bottom left part of the image. I'll be working my way into this mass of wood you see, just leaving a couple of fruit trees during this summer.
The chain of my chainsaw needs a good sharpening after dropping one of the large pines on saturday and I had no suitable file, so to at least get something done I went at this tall but lanky pine with the AK. No problem cutting it down, just a bit of work.
Quick and dirty processing. Severing the top of the tree with the nice, clean cut so typical of khukuris when you angle it right. I can only imagine what a cut like that would do to an arm or leg.
Cutting up the tree to easily manageable lengths for drying and later processing to firewood. On a tree up to this size this AK does fairly quick and comfortable work. I wouldn't take on anythiing much larger though with a khukuri this small, but it's certainly doable if you take the time.
Some of the result of this weekends work next to some of the remains of last years chopping that still havent been cut to firewood size and split. It don't look like much, but it certainly made my city dweller body break a sweat. Yes my wood stack is messy
My work foreman, Shikko, doing an inspection.
I'm still very satisfied with the performance of the "15 AK. After I did some more grinding on the pommel part of the handle it fits my hand very well. It's a bit on the small side with thick, baggy work gloves of the kind you see on the second picture, thinner/softer gloves work much better. I have of course ordered the customary 2nd khukuri, a 26oz "18 WWII (requested the lightest "18 WWII she had in stock) which should be here any day. Not because I found the AK inadequate, but I wanted to try a relatively light but somewhat larger khukuri with more handle too. At least that's my excuse
Mac
Well, since this thread started I've spent every weekend at our country house/"cabbin" clearing scrub, cutting down trees and arguing with a stuborn piece of scrapmetal of a %¤&¤/£$ lawn mower. MY "15 AK get a lot of work to do, particularly limbing and chopping down thinner trees/deadwood in the veritable forest of trees on the rugged 6500 m²/1.6 acre property. The property, except the imediate area around the houses, haven't really been tended for about 35 years and it's covered with tall tv and celullar-signal killing pines and monumental birches. Considering my equipment (normal garded tools, hatchet, khukuri and a small chainsaw) and the fact that everything have to be dragged or carried before the ground is cleaned reasonably up with a rake makes it slow going. I'll likely be thinning out and tending the forrest as well as completely clearing part of it for for years and years to come.
On a side note. Quite frankly, dropping a 30-50cm/10-20inch thick pine that might be more than 10-15 meters/30-50ft tall is a task that demands respect even if it might look easy. Where to lay it down and how to get it to fall precisely in a tight area while having retreat possibilities for yourself and not getting the chainsaw stuck are things you need to have very much in mind. Even when cutting the tree up to relatively small logs, they weight is on the borderline of what a grown man can handle (easily at least 50kg/110lbs and upwards to twice that). Try to carry that over soft, uneven ground.
The first shot is of the most imediate area to the main building. Mostly everything you see was completely covered in thick raspberry shrub a few weeks ago. You can probably just see the border between the old lawn and the cleared area in the bottom left part of the image. I'll be working my way into this mass of wood you see, just leaving a couple of fruit trees during this summer.
The chain of my chainsaw needs a good sharpening after dropping one of the large pines on saturday and I had no suitable file, so to at least get something done I went at this tall but lanky pine with the AK. No problem cutting it down, just a bit of work.
Quick and dirty processing. Severing the top of the tree with the nice, clean cut so typical of khukuris when you angle it right. I can only imagine what a cut like that would do to an arm or leg.
Cutting up the tree to easily manageable lengths for drying and later processing to firewood. On a tree up to this size this AK does fairly quick and comfortable work. I wouldn't take on anythiing much larger though with a khukuri this small, but it's certainly doable if you take the time.
Some of the result of this weekends work next to some of the remains of last years chopping that still havent been cut to firewood size and split. It don't look like much, but it certainly made my city dweller body break a sweat. Yes my wood stack is messy
My work foreman, Shikko, doing an inspection.
I'm still very satisfied with the performance of the "15 AK. After I did some more grinding on the pommel part of the handle it fits my hand very well. It's a bit on the small side with thick, baggy work gloves of the kind you see on the second picture, thinner/softer gloves work much better. I have of course ordered the customary 2nd khukuri, a 26oz "18 WWII (requested the lightest "18 WWII she had in stock) which should be here any day. Not because I found the AK inadequate, but I wanted to try a relatively light but somewhat larger khukuri with more handle too. At least that's my excuse
Mac
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). Having been given away at least twice and thus lost his loved ones before coming to her, he understandably suffers from a kind of anxiety for being left alone. He wants to keep the entire family within ten feet to really feel secure. He is very bright, playful with no health issues and absolutely love to work so we're trying to train him more, taking classes with him. He'd probably be excellent for agility, problem is finding the time to train him. 
