The Knife Thread

[Alitis007]

here comes some deforestation lol or a shite load of fire wood

Lolol, need some more firewood. Running very low and the quick grab stuff from the servo they use now is crap, like burning mdf or chipboard, sheetloads of smoke and no heat or coals

You'll be making a bucket load of kindling not so much fire wood haha

Are you allowed to go into a forest over there and cut a trailer load of fallen timber. Over here you need a permit I think but the closest is Tallarook and that wood is shite to burn not heat whats so ever

Tallarook has Grey box, a mate of mine has some property right on the edge of tallarook and i went down there and cut up some dead dry trees and maaate they burn hot and leave a ton of coals.

Restricted areas you can but also with a permit and generally only from fallen trees

During autumn and spring we have collection areas that allow you to take 2 ton a day of mountain ash that the dse/depi drop for you to cut up

Never done a sheath of this style but giving it a crack for Geckos monster chopper

Thats nice looking leather, lol i rekon you'd need half a cow for that big knife hahaa

[threedogs]

this little beauty just arrived , it just oozes class, its a one off aswell
has file work on the spine and a top quality sheath to suit.
Could not recommend this knife high enough for your collection
and suitable priced
Will put some better pics later
@ Alitis I've been going to Tallarook since early 70's and never had a good fire yet ,your mate is lucky IMO
we camp on Red Hill Track

Some pics of the Damascus skinner ,
sheath is made from 4 pieces of leather but that may just be logistics.
Will display well with others I have, and it is the exact one that they advertised
as per the other pics, very happy indeed

[threedogs]

Picked up a Cold steel Kuhkri machete on the weekend. My mate wants to do a marathon test with it like they do in the youtube clips haha!! Its only 23" overall length but well balanced and after i use it a couple of times the protective black coating should wear off the cutting edge Attachment 47185

@ Alitis how long is actual blade just about to buy one from Nepal??

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-G...item25922c0bc8

[Alitis007]

@ Alitis I've been going to Tallarook since early 70's and never had a good fire yet ,your mate is lucky IMO we camp on Red Hill Track

Maybe the wood you pick up is wet or green, this was from a dead tree we pushed over with his tractor and cut up then let it sit for a couple of weeks under the alfresco at my dads. Gets my wood heater that hot it starts banging and creaking for the rate it makes it expand, a nice knotted piece will burn hot all night!!

@ Alitis how long is actual blade just about to buy one from Nepal?? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-G...item25922c0bc8

I might have said it was a tad bigger, its actually 18" overall with a 13" blade. This isn't like the one your getting, the cold steel kuhkri machete is to be used, abused and neglected unlike the one in your link or the cold steel kuhkri gurkha which is 3 or 4 times more expensive lol.

Next on my list tho is the Gerber BG Perang machete

[oncedisturbed]

Generally green bushwood will burn hotter, longer than dry wood. It will smoke more until the heat gets up, no good in a combustion heater though

[Alitis007]

Really!? I didn't know that, could it be coz there's more air getting to it??

[oncedisturbed]

Pretty much

Mainly because of the sap as it gums up the flu, like burning pine does the same

[threedogs]

Never done a sheath of this style but giving it a crack for Geckos monster chopper

looking very nice in the Croc pattern leather

Going to put an edge on the top of this skinner it already
has most of the work done, I'll see how I go with a field sharpener first

[Alitis007]

Pretty much Mainly because of the sap as it gums up the flu, like burning pine does the same

Oh, ok... I knew that the sap and pine gums up the flu but i didn't know it burned hotter! All the wood i use ( mountain ash, grey box and redgum) is very dry and works brilliantly

[threedogs]

Heres a nice sized trapper with 3.25" blades and bone scales and silver nickel bolsters

and some skinners