From: mkoblic@uniserve.com   
      
   "deowll"  wrote in message   
   news:hb8qp4$jpj$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > We had a discussion some time back about what to use to cut up dead wood   
   > on a camping trip. I started off suggest a hawk or hatchet. People seemed   
   > to get turned off by the very idea of an ax of any size for fear of   
   > hurting themselves which may be valid. I think they went with a fold up   
   > saw which is great for cutting across but kind of limited for splitting.   
   >   
   > Has anyone played around  with the short machetes from cold steel and   
   > others? Cold steel makes an 18 inch and a 12 inch blade.   
   >   
   > Ontario makes a nice one though the handle on it is not as comfortable as   
   > the one on the regular machete. Why they changed the shape I don't know.   
   > I certainly don't consider it to be an improvement.   
      
   A year or two ago I did a comparative trial of chopping wood with a kukri,   
   Cold Steel Barong machete, a golok and a cheap small axe from Fiskars.   
   The details are somewhere if anyone is interested I shall dig them up.   
      
   The long story short: The axe was way superior to all the others. There are   
   modifications one can make to the axe to improve it even more or so I am   
   told. Furthermore, there are axes of similar sizes but more expensive which   
   are said to perform even better - let me know and I shall dig up the links.   
      
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   Michael Koblic   
   Campbell River, BC   
      
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