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Hi I'm a coppicer and hedgelayer here in the little old England were the billhook is our traditional woodland tool, I've been using an old service kukri for a few years now as it compares nicely to the bill and works very well as a draw knife and splitting knife as well as having the weight to deal with hazel, willow and alder, which a machete does not. I have a theory that tool matches environment, whilst in tropics\sub tropics the machete dominates as it is more suited to the jobs and flora associated with those climates. Whilst in more temperate and colder climes the heavier tool wins as you have for instance to build heavier structures for survival and gather more wood for fuel. It's just a theory, but I have worked the countryside for years and wouldn't swap my old kukri for any machete......though if I lived in Nigeria I probably would. Ps I think the kukri was a tool before a weapon, so a bit unfair comparing it to a dagger designed as a dagger. Great video and channel, much love from I and the Somerset Ferrets
Thanks. Yes, hard to say which one was first. Like the machete, the shape lends its for both, utility and as a weapon. I would say it was probably a daily tool that could also work as a weapon when/if needed.
It absolutely is the best, "one tool option" knife you could have. As long as it's a quality forged one and the proper design and edge geometry for what you're trying to do with one. I'm waiting on another one coming in from Nepal made by Kailash Blades. I have a 12" GGK with only around a 6mm spine thickness (quarter inch) that is designed primarily as a fighting/hunting khukuri but even that one EASILY out chops my trusty ESEE Junglas despite being the lighter blade (yet thicker spine). I'm never with just one tool alone, though. My all time favorite big blades are: 24" Tramontina machete ESEE Junglas Most any, quality made khukuri 10-13" ...and maybe the TOPS Power Eagle 12 but I haven't had one to try yet!
I have a Cold Steel magnum Kukri. Love it ! It out cuts any of my other 6 Cold Steel machetes. Once I got the wrist action down, it cuts thin, loose hanging twigs, as well as thicker branches with 1 whack. I wouldn't make a full weight Kukri as my main tool. Especially when I could carry an extra mag in the exchange for the weight.
I have a Kukri in the style of what WWII Gurkha used. It's still a very beefy blade, but shorter than previous iterations of the design. The bigger ones tended to have more distal tapering and were probably more weapons than tools. What do I think of mine? I got it dirt cheap and it's expectedly poorly made, but it gets the job done. You can hammer a nail in, or dig with it, if you have no appropriate tool and it will do a better job at it than most other blades! It's definitely not a weapon to do a knife duell, but even when utterly blunt, it could quickly stop a threat. Sharp as it is, it probably will take off any limb, as long as you get the range right.
I think one thing that people forget about Nepalese warriors is the have lived in high altitudes they're entire lives. Scientists found that they're lungs are more effective at absorbing oxygen. If they can get more oxygen than other people on a mountain it doesn't matter what blade they have 😂
Indeed. Not just Nepal. When visiting football players have matches in La Paz in Bolivia they literally need to play with constant intkae from oixgen tanks. Nearly impossible to beat them there, even if they arent that good.
Many Sherpa young men apply to the Gurkha but not every Gurkha is a Sherpa. Nepal straddles an altitude range from 60m upwards. Sherpas are one of the high altitude adapted people. In central Asia the adaption is lung capacity. In Andes tgey have more effective red blood cells.The longest adapted are Ethiopians but their adaption is harder to figure out.
Khukuris that are hundreds of years old exist and are just as thick as newer made and replicated khukuris. Yes a thinner khukuri is better for combat in some ways but a thicker one is better in other ways. A thicker khukuri would deliver a lot more energy as its a lot heavier than a thinner blade. It also is wedge shaped at the belly, similar to that of an axe which even when blunt would cause serious amounts of damage. A thinner blade may cut deeper but it doesnt porduce the same amount of energy, it can bend, it can snap, tip is weaker and, most importantly the edge is more fragile and less stable. A thick khukuri which is dull, will still open a massive wound and will still split timber. A thin khukuri which is dul wont cut, wont chop larger or medium timber and so on. Thicker khukuris are more durable especially if you're chopping timber, using it as a shovel and abusing it and relying on it as people of Nepal have. Think of how old knives were made. They were forged from steel, lumps and ingots of steel not sheets like modern day. Today we have thin sheets of steel (or thick for survival knives etc.) and we laser cut them to shape them. Back in the day they had to beat on the steel to thin it out. A thin khukuri would be very time consuming and labour intensive to produce something that's not good at tasks where a heavier blade is needed. Overall a khukuri is a multi tool. It needs to be used for defense, cutting, chopping, fine tasks, food, skinning etc. and this is why it is the way it is, because it's time proven through the thousands of years.
i have the heavier kukuri je is showing, i love it, and use it in the woods, and practice a few fighting forms with it, i have no issue carrying it,and i could certainly use it, in combat.
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Hi I'm a coppicer and hedgelayer here in the little old England were the billhook is our traditional woodland tool, I've been using an old service kukri for a few years now as it compares nicely to the bill and works very well as a draw knife and splitting knife as well as having the weight to deal with hazel, willow and alder, which a machete does not.
I have a theory that tool matches environment, whilst in tropics\sub tropics the machete dominates as it is more suited to the jobs and flora associated with those climates. Whilst in more temperate and colder climes the heavier tool wins as you have for instance to build heavier structures for survival and gather more wood for fuel.
It's just a theory, but I have worked the countryside for years and wouldn't swap my old kukri for any machete......though if I lived in Nigeria I probably would.
Ps I think the kukri was a tool before a weapon, so a bit unfair comparing it to a dagger designed as a dagger.
Great video and channel, much love from I and the Somerset Ferrets
Thanks. Yes, hard to say which one was first. Like the machete, the shape lends its for both, utility and as a weapon. I would say it was probably a daily tool that could also work as a weapon when/if needed.
I make you right, look at any workers rebellion anywhere in the world, the bill hook and machete are almost as popular as the pitchfork.
Hell I even like the look of the Cold steel over the other
It absolutely is the best, "one tool option" knife you could have. As long as it's a quality forged one and the proper design and edge geometry for what you're trying to do with one. I'm waiting on another one coming in from Nepal made by Kailash Blades.
I have a 12" GGK with only around a 6mm spine thickness (quarter inch) that is designed primarily as a fighting/hunting khukuri but even that one EASILY out chops my trusty ESEE Junglas despite being the lighter blade (yet thicker spine).
I'm never with just one tool alone, though. My all time favorite big blades are:
24" Tramontina machete
ESEE Junglas
Most any, quality made khukuri 10-13"
...and maybe the TOPS Power Eagle 12 but I haven't had one to try yet!
The kukri I owed from WW 2 had three knives, the traditional one you showed is accurate.
Long story about the one I owned, real deal.
thank you
the curvature of the edge is what makes them utilitarian and multi functional
I know you like Busse. Ordered one of their SYclones made from infi steel. Good design
I have a Cold Steel magnum Kukri. Love it ! It out cuts any of my other 6 Cold Steel machetes. Once I got the wrist action down, it cuts thin, loose hanging twigs, as well as thicker branches with 1 whack. I wouldn't make a full weight Kukri as my main tool. Especially when I could carry an extra mag in the exchange for the weight.
I have a Kukri in the style of what WWII Gurkha used. It's still a very beefy blade, but shorter than previous iterations of the design. The bigger ones tended to have more distal tapering and were probably more weapons than tools.
What do I think of mine?
I got it dirt cheap and it's expectedly poorly made, but it gets the job done. You can hammer a nail in, or dig with it, if you have no appropriate tool and it will do a better job at it than most other blades!
It's definitely not a weapon to do a knife duell, but even when utterly blunt, it could quickly stop a threat. Sharp as it is, it probably will take off any limb, as long as you get the range right.
the kukri is a multiplier of cutting force with design...plus short so it cuts like a larger blade...does well as weapon ot toll
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I think one thing that people forget about Nepalese warriors is the have lived in high altitudes they're entire lives. Scientists found that they're lungs are more effective at absorbing oxygen. If they can get more oxygen than other people on a mountain it doesn't matter what blade they have 😂
Indeed. Not just Nepal. When visiting football players have matches in La Paz in Bolivia they literally need to play with constant intkae from oixgen tanks. Nearly impossible to beat them there, even if they arent that good.
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Many Sherpa young men apply to the Gurkha but not every Gurkha is a Sherpa. Nepal straddles an altitude range from 60m upwards.
Sherpas are one of the high altitude adapted people. In central Asia the adaption is lung capacity. In Andes tgey have more effective red blood cells.The longest adapted are Ethiopians but their adaption is harder to figure out.
Khukuris that are hundreds of years old exist and are just as thick as newer made and replicated khukuris.
Yes a thinner khukuri is better for combat in some ways but a thicker one is better in other ways. A thicker khukuri would deliver a lot more energy as its a lot heavier than a thinner blade. It also is wedge shaped at the belly, similar to that of an axe which even when blunt would cause serious amounts of damage. A thinner blade may cut deeper but it doesnt porduce the same amount of energy, it can bend, it can snap, tip is weaker and, most importantly the edge is more fragile and less stable.
A thick khukuri which is dull, will still open a massive wound and will still split timber. A thin khukuri which is dul wont cut, wont chop larger or medium timber and so on.
Thicker khukuris are more durable especially if you're chopping timber, using it as a shovel and abusing it and relying on it as people of Nepal have.
Think of how old knives were made. They were forged from steel, lumps and ingots of steel not sheets like modern day. Today we have thin sheets of steel (or thick for survival knives etc.) and we laser cut them to shape them. Back in the day they had to beat on the steel to thin it out. A thin khukuri would be very time consuming and labour intensive to produce something that's not good at tasks where a heavier blade is needed.
Overall a khukuri is a multi tool. It needs to be used for defense, cutting, chopping, fine tasks, food, skinning etc. and this is why it is the way it is, because it's time proven through the thousands of years.
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A Katana is better doesn't get you tired from swinging it longer reach Katana will beat Kukri always in Fighting
i have the heavier kukuri je is showing, i love it, and use it in the woods, and practice a few fighting forms with it, i have no issue carrying it,and i could certainly use it, in combat.