I saw these and remembered a recent thread. Locally made .

Those arent heavy duty scott

Time to get hacking?

Keith

ok what brand are they , that is made local?

Well they weren't light duty....and Sharp

I'll find out

When I was a kid, we cut green corn stalks for our mules. Our knives were make from scrap steel like leaf springs, bolted into wooden handles. Knives were about three feet long. The handles were probably 30” long and the blades were about 6” long. The handles might have been constructed from axe handles. I don’t remember. We probably had 4-6 of them. I drove the two horse wagon and men cut stalks and threw them into the wagon.

a machete is one of the best and most versatile tools you can have--- only one to have is a high quality Tramontina---- made in Brazil by people that work with machetes-- E bay has them and they arent expensive but they are the best

A good machete is about quarter inch thick made from leaf springs or railroad rails. The philipinos are known over the world for the best. They use them in life. Ive seen them completely take down grown coco trees with them. Looks like a beaver was there.

I have a tramontina , they work , they come not very sharp and they come with sharp edges on the wood handle , some 220grit sandpaper on the handle and some linseed oil and a file and stone on the blade and you can make them quite nice with a little work.

once you get one sharp then the trick is making a sheath they don't cut through

A lot of the linecutters(prospectors) here would take a machete,cut about 6 inches off the end,remove the handle,and haft it on a sandvik handle.
What a bush hacking machine that is for work in the boreal bush.

I'll get more info on these tomorrow

Sounds like a brush axe
https://counciltool.com/shop/garden...itch-bank-blade-40-3-hole-wooden-handle/

Pete, that's a sling blade. Some folks call it a Kaiser blade but I call it a sling blade.

Thats a golok or parang. They are thicker than a Latin machete. Difference is purpose, the golok/parang (and the kukuri of nepal) serve as choppers for wood that can handle light stuff like grasses. The machete is thinner and designed for light grasses and vines.

This is a pretty cool old piece of cutlery I got from my dad a long time ago. We kids always called it a machete but I suppose it is not. It is 20 1/4 inches long and has a blade over 1/4 inch thick at the top so it is very heavy duty. Your post reminded me of it. It has beheaded a few snapping turtles in it's storied past. It is a Foster Bros. # 14.

I have one very similar to the one 7th in from the left. I need to refurbish it some though a previous owner put some kind of shellac on the blade.



That would look nice in my collection!

Bravo 1 Machete, a higher end piece.

"I'm you boy Name of Carl. So I take the Kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a Kaiser blade, and I hit my mother upside the head with it, Mm Hmm."

Cool Chopper MnMan!!!