My hatchet has a longer than average handle. A camping store near where I used to live sold them really cheap.
I picked up a vintage cleaver, the size they use to quarter cows. What it’s good for: chopping vegetables when they are still frozen. Not good: cutting up a watermelon. Doesn’t matter how sharp the blade is, a quarter inch slab of steel hits watermelon like a hammer.
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Yes, but can I use it to trim my beard?
Hard to beat a gransfors…
I’ve got a cane knife (family’s originally from Hawaii), and yeh, It’s basically a thin but dramatically wider short machete. I probably wouldn’t use it on dry wood, but it’s good for everything else. The hook on the back is crazy useful.
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It is a beauty - $650 is a bit rich for me right now (says guy with $550 Strider in his pocket) but this has just moved to the top of my “want” list. My Gerber Gator hatchet saw combo will have to do for the time being.
What you really want is a Camillus folding machete, as issued to US Marine parachute troops jumping into jungle terrain during WW2. I’ve got one, along with a Kukri, given to my late dad after he was liberated from Changi, where he was a Japanese POW. Really neat piece of kit, although rather heavy, the handle has a liner-lock, and the blade has a folded steel ‘sheath’ that just slips over the blade.
Still a perfectly serviceable tool after around 70 years.
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