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Helko Billhook Machete Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
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Blade Length: 11.8 inches
Steel: Unknown High Carbon
Handle: Stacked leather
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Made In: Italy
Price: $48 (Sold at: www.helkonorthamerica.com/)
This is a very high quality classic billhook style machete, manufactured in Italy for the German company Helko.
The billhook style of machete is a classic and versatile design, capable of clearing brush, cutting branches and saplings, de-limbing branches, digging, carrying, pruning, cutting down fruit, and many other uses. Some billhooks are just for the garden, but this Helko Billhook is strong and durable enough (1.4 pounds) for the wilderness.
In my virile youth, I had a side business trimming coconut trees. I copied the samoans and used a cane knife. That was too dangerous, all that close quarters flailing and glancing blade misses. I developed a hookknife similar to this blade. I welded a socket to the spine and installed a shortened axe handle. This blade made me thousands of dollars over 15 years of weekend side jobs. A coconut palm frond is pithy and has fibrous tendons that when Knicked just right, would let gravity do most of the work of peeling the stubborn frond away. I could remove fronds, flower pods, coconut bunches, fabric and shape the remainder into a beautiful looking tree with no tooling marks. All that with one tool. I was able to easily keep up with the professional Polynesians due to the efficiency of this billhook blade.
I miss my virile youth. Time has take it from me forever! But yes, this is a great Billhook, nothing that meets that inner curved edge is going to escape.
I'm italian aand this is a typical italian instrument called roncola and has many variants different in every italian region...is very common and handmade so durable and adapt to italian vegetation...
i have a vintage italian rinaldi billhook just like the one used in the 1971 italian horror movie bay of blood . the old ones are thick and heavy . unlike the newer made ones . i love mine .
Cool machete! The Billhook has been around for hundreds of years, and was commonly used by peasants during the Middle Ages as an agricultural and forestry tool, designed to trim tree branches, prune grape vines, and other uses. Of course that variation of it was a polearm, used to reach high branches and vines in trees.
It was actually one of the most common weapons used by peasants to fight off knights, both domestic and invading knights. It was used to hook around the plates of armor, and pull a knight down on foot, or off horseback. It was no doubt the predecessor to the Halberd, or any other number of polearms used in the Middle Ages.
It is cool to see a company that makes Billhook machetes. I know they do over in England, but I'm surprised to see a German country does, considering the Germans do have a lot of limiting knife legislation. But there are always profits to be made by exports ;)
Interesting! I was not expecting much, but I was quite impressed. I look forward to your woodsman's pal tool. I have thought about picking one of those up. Blessings!
Sorry for my English (I'm using the google translator) That's a rocola model "Bergamo", not just to prune the small branches, if used properly quell'atrezzo them, it can easily substitute a hatchet and break down, without much effort trees also of 12/15 cm. in diameter with a few well-aimed blow not on the curve of the blade, but in the central part of the same, and can, be used to split pieces of wood 10/12 cm without making batoning.
Is used here im Italian hundreds of years, I have used some of that my grandfather was born in 1889 rip still perfectly funzionaznti and sharp, I like to restore them
I like the respect that every blade gets in this channel. Some less skillful reviewer could end up just trying to destroy the blade for not understanding the design and thinking that is overall too weird but not here. Every time you bring zombies I am laughing my ass dude.
I love the destruction tests!!! so much cheap garbage out there!
I knew this one was made in Italy when I saw it as they can be found in every hardware store or flea market in Italy and every farmstead or country cottage is equipped with at least one of them. A friend of mine's Grandfather could climb a large pine tree using two of these things. They are called "roncola" the Rinaldi brand being the most popular, in fact it looks like they are making them for Helko.
Nice review. The beak also protects the edge if you strike towards the ground. One can also strike with the back and with the flat, nuts or tent pegs or...one can treat the stacked leather with Linseed oil. Draw cutting with the hook is very good if the brush is thick.
Of course, Bear Grylls would marinate those earthworms in his own urine...
Have you ever heard of the the Silky Yoki chopper and Silky Nata hachet? I hear they are pretty great tools. I'd like to see reviews of those two.
That machete structures similar to "Arit Gede" in Indonesian farming tools. To prune or even cutting middle size branch or trees (10 cm in diameters). The hook shape especially to do the small task(making hole in coconut fruit, splitting/battoning log or bamboo).
It may be interesting for you, that this a swiss "Gretl" (pronounced "Gratl"). (Original produced in Italiy for the swiss company Stiehl)
An all purpose farmers tool in the alps also found in southern Germany and western Austria.
The swiss used it also as weapon in the middle age wars. The hook was used to break the amor of knights.
(Sorry for my english ;-)
Nice Machete how would it do cutting water jugs?
That looks like just the tool I need to carry in my truck at work. I'm a DOT supervisor in charge of road sign crews, and we have to clear a God awful amount of brush. Sometimes a bush axe is too clumsy getting honeysuckles from around signs, but a one hand blade like this would be just perfect. I like the way the Helko is made. I've also been looking at a British made Martindale. Bill hooks aren't that common here in the US as machetes, but they looks very useful.
Lex5576 go ahead... a bill hook is about the only weapon that can chop, pierce, hook,pull, and break every thing... its also a powerful defence weapon, once u ave it to a razor edge, u will have the most lethal of all blades, way better than a kukri
Definitely seems like a super easy and versatile tool! Only thing that's "bad" about it is that it may be hard to sharpen, but that could be easy enough to get around. Great review!
triumphant39 There ya go!
***** Nice! I never thought to use paper to sharpen in that fashion, great tip!
The short quick pulling cut is what avoids all the flailing accidents. This only works on pithy, wet stuff like coconut palm fronds, bananna, ginger and soft vegetation. Small diameter Hard woody stuff is best cut on the bias with a swinging chop. A lot of finesse is required when cutting through different types of vegetation with a billhook. Different cutting methods for differing substances. Fun stuff. a cane knife with a hook on the spine is the best tool for qeneral all around clearing. IMHO
Finally a woodsman pal review comming from a person who's opionions and reviews I trust!! The woodsmans pal is my first "real" machete I use it all the time have cut down way bigger trees with it then I thought I would be able to without too much effort. Can't wait. My only one gripe is the blade doesn't run all the way to the end of the machete side? Any reason for that? I am modifying mine as soon as I feel comfortable not to mess it up
Joe Roy I re-profile them and sharpen them all the way to the end. I am sure there is a good reason for the un-edged part, like you can hammer things with it, but still I modify mine like you said because machetes should have commonality, all my other machetes have an edge that goes right to the end.
Gerber has the same blade design it's amazing knife keeps edge better than any blade.
Nice demo!
This bill hook is very beautiful
If you like billhooks, check out the "Yuki Chopper" made by Silky Saws. Great Japanese made billhook that I've used in my own yard on several occasions. SKS-51 steel, nice rubber handle, full tang, comes with a nice sheath...it is a little pricy, but it's a sweet blade.
That is the top one i Think when it comes to steel and overall quality! A bit too costly for me though, and since i got a good Portuguese Billhook "Verdugo" (Douro type) already.....
Where can i buy one?
Can't find it on there site
I could have used this bill shaped blade to harvest pine boughs for a survival training over-night on Mt Baker. We needed them to shove into a snow platform at an angle to make a bed to lie on that would elevated us and insulate us from the snow. I was using a hand axe that slipped off a bough and caught my thumb. Several stitches later...I was ok...but the tool you demo'd is what would have prevented this injury in the first place.
Something like that happened to me once, the axe bounced off a bough, i have used a Billhook on Tuja, Juniper and American Hawthorn with good effect.
Hey bro another good vid! This machete is branded as stihl where I live
Yeah they actually buy this blade from Italy, so different companies also buy the same one.
A handy tool!
I have the exact same machete, whats the use of the metal hook thing at the handle?
I think it is to prevents it sliding out of hand during a swing.
Say Heah Is, I like to scout, I just teamed my Seal Pup Elite TiNi with my Compact Modified Billhook Condor Wilderness Tool, On both ends are a small and larger hatchet along the billhook you can also use it as a knife the curved chisel edge top you can dig up roots for cordage, make firepits and kittu homes, It's weuggs about a lound and it's made in the 420HC. ,, .
This machete is best used for cleaning between rows of Pineapple. Use leather gloves, long sleeves and eye protection from pineapple leaves.
when you try to use it on thick brush the tip hits other branches losing all the force you put into it
Love bush axes, bill hooks.
There's good reason this became a vital Weapon in more then one arsenal.
that kind of knife is very common here in my home town and it goes for 15 dollars
This is a commonly used farm knife in Kerala, India too. Here its refered to as 'Vakkathi'
that's a standart swiss "tessiner gertel" ^^
it like a wicked Bird Beak
"juicy bananas" killed me
Like a sickle on steroids! Thanks for the review.
In Mexico it is called "Huingaro", or "machete ranchero" aja!
Where I can buy one which store
Currently you can buy one under "Rinaldi Billhook" on US Amazon.
Its original name called vettarivaal
i could kill a thousand zombies with that!
Mmmm che bello
Is there a billhook fansite, chatroom out there ?
my people have been using those for a long time now
wow super video like always I can buy this in my local garden shop ^^ what is great because I gona buy it now
greetings from a big fan and subscriber from Belgium
MMMM HMMM, we call it a Keizer blade or a Sling blade, as good as eating biscuits with mustard!
yeah In my local hardware store is it a gardener tool ^^
yani vanhandenhove
It is a great tool though, I love to take down small trees with it! Lol
draconis hey mr erik how are you today
greetings from your blade brother yani van handenhove
yani vanhandenhove
Good morning younger brother! How are you today?
Was that a Hori Hori in that pot? lol
yes
Sily has something simular to this
Swiss gertel
This is a typical roncola that in Italy we made from the Romans. It is a typical Italian axe. Rinaldi is the best of the world.
per me l'è el podet dio cana
Par mi invexe xé el cortelaxo
Or look here at different Italian models www.fershop.it/tutto-per-il-giardinaggio/Categoria-Principale/247-roncole-e-maceti or www.flli-rinaldi.it/roncole-accessori.asp or www.baryonyxknife.com/anbnbi.html or this one with sheath (Fiskars have appearently bought the "Leborgne" company) www.hmdiffusion.com/Serpe-de-chasseur-manche-cuir-avec-etui-Leborgne-11-16025-p.htm , hunter version. If you live in N.A. Baronyx is perhaps a better choice of vendor, if in €urope not. I myself have a Portuguese billhook make "Verdugo N00" "Azores" model, very nice but small (similar to Douro model). Serpe in French, Hippe in German, Roncole in Italian. Or for heavy clearing www.harmantaonta.fi/
Thats a swiss "Gertel"
Oh great, Germans and Italians working together. That was never a bad idea...
Lmao no shit!! All you need is the fucking Japanese to Ally with them and the world's in for another 6 year shit storm!!!!!
Hewwo youtube.
Seems like he needs a Latin or something longer than a billhook for that, the billhook is in the same category as a kukri: chopper
This is aIndian wepan 🇮🇳🚩👍
Who came from chivalry medeivel warfare?
HIDE THE WOMEN AND KIDS!!!!
Love bush axes, bill hooks.