Big knives SUCK!!! ?
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I think the main problem is people are doing too much talking and not enough doing. If you use your knives, you will find out very fast what works, what is practical, and what is marketing and gimmicks.
@@JDStone20 🎯🎯🎯
I just tape a small, light knife to my large knife so I have everything covered. I am glad to see someone sticking up for large tools.
When it comes to a large knife for chopping stuff, it’s important that the tool doesn’t break me I’ve used a lot of large knives that fuck my wrists after and hour or two of use. That being said, I have two that I really like. I really enjoy a a 1/16” thick Tralmontina bolo machete, it swings fast, cuts deep like a hatchet, and doesn’t fatigue me after using it all day it’s biggest flaw is that it gets stuck sometimes in dry wood. The other one I like is a Tereva Scrama 240, it is a really well balanced design between performance and durability, it isn’t too fatiguing to swing, it bites deep, cuts really with a very fine edge, it can split wood in camp and I can even use it wack in tent stakes. Honorable mention to the Ontario SP-8, which is less of a knife and more of a sharp chisel/pry-bar/hatchet/hammer, spade, and and wood splitter (I just used it to tear up a bunch of flooring.
@@nandayane I agree on all points!
Especially the sp8 haha
It's funny you mention Kukri's deflecting. I think it was this last season of "Naked and Afraid" , I saw one of the contestants fillet the top of his wrist with a Kukri due to that exact reason. Also, I prefer a Top Storm Vector when working heavy brush. I found it after bending and breaking a half dozen cheap machetes. Even a cheap Sugar Cane Knife is better for clearing brush than most machetes. Keep up the good content!
@roostershooter76 so I don't think all khukuri's are bad by any stretch but yeah, they are more likely to deflect if at the narrowest point at the ricasso they are too thin.
Glad to hear it! 💪🏻
The "bigger the knife, the bigger the fool" crowd is incredibly tiresome. Much of the world uses much larger knives than this in their day to day working life. Would a mobile woodshop perform better? Of course, but carrying a dozen tools isn't always practical or affordable. A big knife covers all bases, which is why it's so popular around the world.
I agree. Seems like people who are adamantly against big knives don't have experience properly choosing and using big knives. People against axes don't have experience using and choosing axes. It'd be odd to go into your toolbox and say "vise grips are crap, channel locks are superior," or "never use a hacksaw, coping saws are the best". The argument just makes no sense. Different tools, different jobs.
@@AdventureSworn 🎯
I generally prefer small knives, but I also like really big ones. I have a Skrama 240, which the manufacturer describes as a "hookless bill" (it's a seax). It's a very versatile tool, but also one which is very different from a typical knife.
Remember what A.J. said about the frogs?
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Very good points, BUT my feelers got hurt bc you talked smack about my “men’s” yoga pants and my big knife from Walmart.
@Kennerd007 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "they aren't yoga pants, they are for origin and they are for jujitsu!" 🤣
@@Thepreppersbunkeroutdoors hahaha yep that’s it jujitsu pants. That’s also from Walmart like my big Winchester Bowie
If I’m carrying a larger knife hiking thru the woods it’s gonna be my ESEE 6, if I’m going thru brush I’ll take my machete
IMHO, that's a medium knife, which is ideal for many tasks small knives don't perform well.
When practical to carry one, i do often prefer a large knife over other options. I personally like Lynn Thompson's argument for large knives: A big knife can do anything that a small knife can do, but the opposite isn't true. With proper skill, you can do fine detailed work with a big 10" blade knife all day as long it's a well designed knife. For this reason i love my Junglas. I also love my Avispa but I'm not going to be taking down any trees with it.
I like big knives and I can not lie.
I would rather use a Hatchet 🪓
Would love to see it.
Good to see you enjoying that bushwhacker mistress!!!! Love the videos of you using it!!!!!
@rawdog5506 a lot more will be coming this fall. I love the knife! I'll be sad to send it off for a sheath! That's why it's still in a Tops sheath!
To me I always find having a good balance is most important to me. Yes I want a knife to be able to knife, and still be decently tough. So finding that good balance and in between is what I look for. If it’s just a blunt crowbar then I’m not too interested but also warping/chipping/ an edge or breaking something all together also sucks.
@@thelasthuntsmanoutdoors 🎯🎯🎯
Love my big blades.
I whole heartly agree, but i would fight with a barong even with a machete. I perfer fixed blade knifes dor basic stuff and if i need ro chop trees then axes and hatches are fine.
I carry an axe most of the time I’m in the woods. Usually 4lbs. My stalking ARs are as little as possible. I don’t think I massive knife would is overkill but I’d probably carry my pocket knife as well. Habits
@@jeffhuntley2921 it all depends on where you are and what you are doing! A 4lbs axe can be AWFULLY handy!
Great video. I absolutely love big knives. Every chance I get I use them.
Big knives are for real men. Axes are strictly for beard trimming. Or the rare occasion you need to shave while driving your Willys MB into town to barter for lead and powder.
@@jimbusmaximus4624 🤣🤣🤣
I can’t grow my half Asian beard enough to be shaved by an axe,☹️….F you too😒
Totally right, I can attest to everything you said in this video being true.
Well said Jacob ,great video!💯✌️
chainsaw. right. on antique kukries, 1550s on, it looks like they all were 13'' -18'' blades; some really broad blades, maybe 1/4 of antiques quite narrow blades.
i'd say effectively 100% were convex bevels; i've only seen one, of hundreds of antique kukries, with a chipped edge. almost all antique kukries, 1550s to todays' Nepalese antique repros, have small 'side knives', some with 4'' blades.
i def had kukries deflect into MY KNEECAP, chopping hard wood-- luckily, i had heavy blue jeans on. supposedly, the Parang doesn't deflect, as, the edge is STRAIGHT (basically), and the SPINE curves 'down' to meet the tip of the edge,
a large % of antique kukries had very expanded pommels; almost a disk. this allowed a very loose 'grip' for all day, everyday, chopping, etc. the Ph solution, was the hooked-pommel of the Bolo. many antique sword pommels, all over the world, had radically hooked pommels.
REMEMBER:
People that complain about “big” knives are just people that are boring and unhappy.
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!
@@Primitivebearknives 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻🤣
Got a large knife , similar to the one pictured in this video. Busse NMFBM. I used it to baton through logs for my fireplace ( at home) …..prefer it to an axe. I’ve had a few close calls with axes.
That's a legend of a blade!
Big knives do suck, compared to an axe or hatchet, when you need pure unadulterated chopping power for processing wood. I'm looking at it purely from a survival perspective.
@@christophersteingart2237 nah
Hi im pat and im a knife addict. I like all knives regardless of size 😂
This is the way
I was never a big knife fan, never understood the appeal. I do have a Silky Nata just for clearing smaller branches and scrub while around my property, it's still not a knife however. . .
The appeal is very simple- it's whether or not the appeal works out as intended.
That's where experimentation and dirt time come in.
The big silkies are pretty cool.
No so useful for briars and wild rose etc however.
Machetes are not designed to cut thick limbs, and for that matter neither are true kukri's. There are many reasons why a blade (or ax) deflects, and it's not always caused by a thick edge.
If you're talking about efficiency when cutting a lot of hard wood, why not use a chainsaw? Sure you could use a full sized ax, but why waste your energy? You dont need to carry an ax, if you have a chainsaw.
Not everyone can afford (or cares about) a fancy custom sheath either, they use what works. Sure, if theyre gonna use the blade often, then yeah, a better sheath might becomes a priority.
Finally, not every knife needs a super fine edge. To expect that they should, is a bit unrealistic.
I don’t have any trouble using a 14” Tralmontina bolo machete for cutting thick tree limbs, I may need more swings but I can do them pretty fast. And at the end of the day, my wrists aren’t messed up like they would be from swinging a thick knife.
@@RogueWill83 I answered every question there in the video.
If we're gonna be honest, most big brand names of knives suck.
And the alternative is what? A custom?
@RogueWill83 I don't know. All I know is Buck Knife has gone to sh!t And I'm very disappointed.
@outlawsix1322 buck and Gerber are trash to be honest.
I would look into brands like Tops and Esee. Are they perfect? No, but they're miles better than Buck, Gerber, and some others
Cold Steel. Kizer. Civivi. Sitivien. Ganzo. EafenGrow. Hogue. Duratech. Rosecraft. Kershaw. Schrade. SOG is overpriced only buy on sale. Alot of brands I've tested knives from personally all good knife brands, and I'm probably missing a few, but take your pick buck is going the way of gerber unfortunately atleast they tried though 🍻
@@RogueWill83 I've never even
heard of those brands.
Knives are a cutting tool, hatchet/machete is better with a saw. Knives are to have high toughness and be brittle. One can baton a machete through a branch, better to use a saw. I see no benefit for a large knife, historically large Knives were for fighting.
@spatialinterpretations449
Why say "knives are to have high toughness and be brittle"?- those two things are opposites.
Come out and work with a machete, axe, and hand saw for this kind of work for a few days- guaranteed you would change your load out.
Historically steel sucked as compared to now- so if you need to support your point with a fact like that it likely means you need to spend more time doing what you are talking about.
@@Thepreppersbunkeroutdoors An Axe is usually softer metal that bends when hitting a harder object: i.e. designed not to chip. A knife is a cutting tools designed to hold an edge but but be more brittle. Tying to get a metal that hold's an edge but does not chip is a dark art and unnecessary - the right tool for the right job. If you watch "Joe X " you will notice cheaper knives with softer metal don't break as easily when chopping and being abused (no chipping and snapping - the meal bends). So a knife is to have high hardness and a chopping tool a softer metal. A person can process a lot more wood with a saw than just about any other tool. Chopping wood with a tool designed for chopping is always more efficient than a straight knife even at the same weight. Big knifes are a cool bushcraft thing for rednecks but for people that live in the wilderness, do hunting guided tours etc.. very seldom do you see them carry a large knife. If a large knife is you thing go for it if it makes you happy in the woods.
So you didn't understand what toughness means in terms of knives.
That's fine.
"If you watch Joe X"
I guess you don't realize that Joe sent me broken knives to be examined for further explanation of breakage as I have done already and he has mentioned me and my channel quite a few times right?
If you need to support your point with terminology you don't understand and youtube examples you need to stop talking about the subject and get out and start DOING.
I say this not to be snarky but because it's a life lesson that is vitally important and far too often overlooked anymore.
@@Thepreppersbunkeroutdoors hahaa do wat exactly run around with a big knife chopping wood and trees down, no professional arborist uses a big knife - it is just plain dumb. My wife is a horticulturist and used to mange crews of arborist for a large town for tress in the parks, pavements etc. Using a big knife for pruning, chopping control of tree growth is dumb beyond all belief.
@spatialinterpretations449 so your wife has more experience than you.
Not surprised at this point.
I have a T.O.P.S. Axe that does the job better than the big knives lol. I think knives in general should be used for certain tasks.
@@KeikoFXDesigns interesting
Which brand are you referring to, that has quality control issues and blades consistently breaking?
I think he is talking about Bark River.
Hopefully Mike Stewart doesn't come looking for me, LOL!
@@JDStone20 🤣
@@JDStone20 I have 21 Bark River knives, and have had at least that many more come through my hands. I've only had one with an issue, and that was one I got in a trade, so I can't speak for what the previous owner may have done with it. It was bent, and Bark River replaced it.
I only know of one that's been broken by DBK.
As far as quality control issues, I haven't had one in the 40-50 examples I've held and used.
Does it happen? Sure. We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people sometimes produce imperfect products.
But I know Mike Stewart stands by his product. Hence, the warranty.
Big knife....the one use tool.
Nah
What size timber do you say thats too much work for a knife and go for a saw? i under esimated some 5in round oak once and was gassed after.(thats what she said)
@____MC____ it depends on how many I have to cut! Here in this video I did that 4-5" oak and that was fine and I did a 3-4" pine and that was easy but I was the other 6-8 trees down that were up to 10" and went for the Chainsaw.
For bush clearing for this fencing normally I could do everything with a knife- but it got neglected and here we are.
While camping/ Adventuring it should be able to do whatever I need.
As a general rule if I spend more than 3-5 minutes on it it's too much.
I want to know what brand of stretchy pants you're wearing 😂
@@gotsurvivalism 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Thepreppersbunkeroutdoors thought we wouldn't notice huh!? 🤣🤣
@@Thepreppersbunkeroutdoors I like stretchy jeans myself. Good for the roundhouse kicks.
@@gotsurvivalism 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@gotsurvivalism these pants I'm wearing are Swiss alpenflage- they don't stretch- except oddly enough a bit at the waist.
I think they are the only combat pants I know of that have a button snap and elastic at the waist which is... interesting I guess haha
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I don’t know why you say you can’t carry an axe and a machete. Wrought can literally strap them to your body. One on your back and one on your chest. Keep your knife at your side.
@electricninja2122 if I said I "can't" I mis spoke.
But carrying a bunch of tools is unweildy and tiresome and annoying.
Have you worked for hours at a time with an axe strapped to your back and chest?
There are few sheaths and strap setups that are set up to allow that to be done carefully.
@@ThepreppersbunkeroutdoorsI agree with you. But maybe you could just have em strapped to you on the way in and out of the woods, not the entire time working. Hang from a tree limb the one you’re not using. I also agree with your last statement in the video…..bust out the chainsaw!
@electricninja2122 then you're always walking back and forth.
I have done it all- the big knife outside of having tons of trees down like this makes the work quicker and easier.
Cool but almost useless
@@mikemacwelch953 nah
Jacob why not a chainsaw just kidding ha ha ha!!!! (make chainsaws great again) keep on keepin on you're doing a fine job
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