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Snake Whackers: Best Machete
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05/25/16 04:52 PM
05/25/16 04:52 PM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 51,948 Round ‘bout there
Clem
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Round ‘bout there
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5Pages whacked his snake with a machete.
What's the best machete you guys use for brush, vines, snakes, watermelons, whatever, that holds an edge and has a long blade?
Last edited by Clem; 05/25/16 05:02 PM.
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Re: Snack Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: Clem]
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05/25/16 05:10 PM
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Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Little Debbie snacks? Or like goldfish snacks?
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Snack Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: 257wbymag]
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05/25/16 05:12 PM
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Posts: 9,340 Jackson County
BrentM
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Mr. Turkey
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Little Debbie snacks? Or like goldfish snacks? The little peanut butter cookies wrapped up with those little bows!
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: Clem]
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05/25/16 05:15 PM
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Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: Clem]
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05/25/16 06:25 PM
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AC870
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I got the little short Gerber. I'd have to get too close to snake whack with it.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: AC870]
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05/25/16 06:33 PM
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kodiak06
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Booner
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I got the little short Gerber. I'd have to get too close to snake whack with it. I have the same one. It's solid...
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: Clem]
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05/26/16 01:00 AM
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CatHeadBiscuit
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
[Re: Clem]
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05/26/16 01:03 AM
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low wall
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X2 on the bank blade. Far safer than a machete, far more effective. Like Turkey247, grew up working for my father's survey crews. The new rodmen would pick a machete for the first day cutting line, then go for the bank blades (which we grew up calling bush hooks.) In a pinch, they'll substitute for a shovel digging trucks out of mud holes.....or paddle a boat. (Don't ask me how I know.)
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Re: Snake Whackers: Best Machete
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05/26/16 02:17 AM
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paulfish4570
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13"-22" machete with a well tuned convex edge, and a push stick. so much lighter than a bank blade of any kind. a push stick has a fork at the end to help you push blackberry stems, etc., away from you and hold them while you flick the machete. also good for holding down snake heads. marbles (made by condor, i think), imacasa, tramontina, and such are good quality, but you will have to do the final dress on the edge. cold steel machetes are a crap shoot. i went through a whole rack at a store one day, and did not find a single unbent blade. never, ever buy one made in china (like that gerber trash); you don't know what the steel quality is. as R H Clark said, machete specialists is your friend. and please, learn to properly sharpen your machete; makes all the difference in the field.
paulfish4570 Joshua 1:9
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