HOW TO CUT AND MARK YOUR OWN TRAIL. CONDOR MACHETE. NEW ZEALAND BUSH.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- How To Cut And Mark Your Own Trail. Using my Condor Jungolo Machete I have previously cleared the regrowth from about 1.8 kilometers of my Pest Control Trail. In this video I share the techniques I use for safe and efficient Trail Cutting and also Marking the trail to make it easy to follow.
Thanks very much for watching. Please like and comment .
Dave
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I have new a mini Duku Parang from condor, excited to try it and have always heard good things about condors blades.
I have owned a few Condors, knives and this machete. Great steel at good prices. Let me know how your Duku Parang performs. The Parang shape and the heavy Condor steel will probably make an excellent cutter.
Great video thanks.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed. Dave
Nice I've been wanting to do this myself just haven't got around to it Great video once again 👍
Thanks bro. Hoping you can get out there soon.
Hey bud, loving this series of you out in that area, great tecnniques and practices, you do a cracking job out there, interesting about the army and the silence, makes sence. Here I use a pruning saw and axe but not often to be honest, mostly it's open woodland, nothing like the bush. But I have done the odd path, miss the machete, I was more a danger to myself😂😂, great video again mate, cheers Chris
It is a great area to be out in. Secluded and rugged, perfect machete country. Thanks Chris
Un machete estupendo, me suscribo. Saludos desde España
Gracias por mirar y suscribirse. Este machete fue una buena compra. Es un poco pesado pero funciona bien.
Great to hear from you again.
Very good info on trailblazing. 👍
Thanks Kevin. Have a good one bro.
I have an idea for notching..... make either a hole or a wedge and cut a reasonable thick stick and jam it in there maybe baton it into a hand drilled hole like how bush crafter makes three legged chair, I made a trail recently I don't want to be found so the first 50 meters is still dense ,...secret trail to a secret clearing on an island in the middle of a saltwater river ,, made it for me and my son to camp and bushcraft ....its only possible in winter as it is blanketed in mosquitos and sand flies in summer .
Interesting idea, thanks Charlie. A marked trail but with a stealth element to it, difficult for unwanted eyes to see the markers. Did it take much more time to mark the trees in that way?
@@southernlandsolo7839 we didn’t need to mark our trees , that was an idea, our spot we know by memory 😁
Good pointers Brother and I love the machete. You don’t see many machetes where I hunt in the Ruahine but I have a lot of interest in them from a practical perspective. I use an army issue folding saw (1 RNZIR - what unit were you in?) I am normally hunting major ridges and streams so don’t mark a trail. I own an old issue Golock too but have never used it yet. Like the look of your every day carry and kit. From memory there are a few ex army boys living up where you live. Cheers Dave 🇳🇿 🥝
Thanks for commenting David. I started my first year in RF Cadets then onto 1 RNZIR. The army was where I developed the love of the outdoors. After the army is where I developed that love of "smoothing it" rather than "roughing it" lol. How about you bro?
@@southernlandsolo7839 I joined in 92. Started off life as a rifleman in 1 RNZIR for 5 years or so. I have always liked the outdoors but the (sometimes) hardship of the army helped me develop skills and also develop a liking of being comfortable in the hills - bit like you maybe. Cheers Dave
@@davidneal6920 Awesome David, thanks bro.
I really like that Machete! There's no getting through supple jack with those though. I have a small forest axe (gransforsbruk) and my main tool is a good pruning saw (Friendly swede). The axe can be used for trimming/de-limbing along with simple wood cutting. The pruning saw I tend to use the most though as it's light, and get's through vines and things with ease. The most important thing is the saw is safe! One decent cut out there and you're pretty much screwed. I would love to know where you brought the machete (I'm also in NZ south)
Thanks Kev. Interesting to hear of using a saw for getting through the bush. I can see how the long blade gives a good long stroke for cutting through the vines. I have a Wetterlings hatchet and a Marttiini hatchett. They are great for camping but limited for trail clearing.
I bought the machete from Blade Master in Auckland.
www.blademaster.co.nz/results.html?q=jungolo
@@southernlandsolo7839 awesome cheers mate
Cuts punga and palm leaves sweet-seems pointless cutting down the native lancewood/Horoeka as they never bush outwards and take about 15 years to grown to their maturty size - No chance for those ones you carelessly hacked down ignorantly - You would do better to teach yourself about what it is your actually looking at and walking past(Tree identification) when travelling through N.Z.bush Your not the only one I was the same until two mature hiker women in the bush confronted me on an adrenalin seeking misson through Waima Forest - best thing that happened to for many benificial reasons ie animal/bird food zones - firemaking - hunting - wild survival tukka - Taiaha - kete - hinaki - Rongora =N.Z.Native medicine plant types and names.
Thanks for viewing and commenting bro. It brings up interesting points. My and other youtubers videos also receive comments on cutting and harvesting in the forests. Peoples personal experiences, knowledge and individual spiritual or religious beliefs get mentioned. This is a good place to look into that more.
I understand your thinking on the cutting down of small young trees. My attitude in the bush is low impact and a minimal foot print. The video footage only showed a very small section of the track. It did not show how those trees were growing in the pathway. Clearing those particular Horoeka was necessary for a safe path. I would have changed the track to go around mature trees (as I did many times on this trail). That would have saved the mature Horoeka but then other plants would need to be cleared. This bush is thriving with growth so the loss of a two or three young is simply and logically not harming the environment. The reason for cleared trails is to provide a narrow cleared path through the bush. The alternative is a large trampled area of bush. Cutting and clearing a path is less impacting on the environment. The cyclone that had just ripped through devastated more of this bush than the 1.8km of pathway did.
I am particularly careful and selective when I have the long blade of a machete in my hand. I don't swing and cut carelessly or needlessly. Each swing brings potential danger.
I once read a comment on a youtubers video where the commenter said she would not eat a certain tree shoot because it would kill the tree (Nikau). She said she would not eat it even if in a survival situation. The tree before her own life. That kind of hesitation or thinking in a life or death situation can get a person into serious trouble. To be effective and safe when in the bush requires learning, logic, common sense and self-control. The opposite to being effective and safe would be having little understanding of the environment, not willing to continue learning, fear of cutting or harvesting a plant, subjecting to others peoples personal opinions or beliefs. All can be a breeding ground for ignorance. And ignorance can put a person into a survival situation or hinder them getting out of one.
You really got me thinking on this bro, thanks again for your comment.
@@southernlandsolo7839 I know Puhoi bush well - done my years of tracking through it - Good budz every were.