Something silly: a Walking Dead weapons "rant"

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

K9’s don’t bother me as much as the pronounced Adam’s apple!

That reminded me of this song!


https://youtu.be/ZgyrWoD9-04?t=9

[Big Frank]

About a week ago I put my camping gear back in my truck, including the hammer that was a tomahawk, and my E-tool. It was an army surplus entrenching tool that I tried to dig too much, too deep with, and snapped the handle right off. I threw away the broken handle but kept the blade, and made my T-handle from the same 3/4" pipe I later used for the hammer. The handle is 4.5" wide, and the overall length of the shovel is about 33.25" IIRC. I just made sure it was short enough to fit in the front cargo box on one of my old ATVs. Before I welded the T-bar on the handle, I hammered down the other part to narrow it down some where it goes between my fingers when I hold on to dig with it. I never sharpened the blade but it was still sharp enough to chop some branches about 1.5" diameter off a pine tree in one chop. I don't think I could have done that with my axes or machetes.

[tombogan03884]

You need a new axe.
Or learn to sharpen the one you've got.

[Timothy]

I actually CAN shave with my forest axe!

[tombogan03884]

I actually CAN shave with my forest axe!

With out hurting yourself ?
Getting it sharp enough is easy.
It's the , not slitting your throat after it is  part, That's the sketchy part.   

[Sponsor]

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With out hurting yourself ?
Getting it sharp enough is easy.
It's the , not slitting your throat after it is  part, That's the sketchy part.   

  I shave with a straight every day.  Hell I have even shaved with a floor scraper razor blade.  Its not thatbhard once you learn.

[tombogan03884]

  I shave with a straight every day.  Hell I have even shaved with a floor scraper razor blade.  Its not thatbhard once you learn.

I f#ck myself up with clippers .     
I have a beard.  It's safer.   

[Big Frank]

You need a new axe.
Or learn to sharpen the one you've got.

I was chopping in the middle of live branches roughly shoulder height with my shovel, and in that situation I had a much harder time hitting them right with an ax. A lot of times they would bounce away from the ax without cutting all the way through, if I didn't completely miss, that is. And I can sharpen an ax just fine. I can shave the hair off my arms with both of my axes after I sharpen them. But the blades are thicker than my shovel or machetes and I sharpen them at a wider angle, rather than a narrow angle like a knife blade. A wider angle can take a lot more chopping without chipping or dulling than a really narrow angle. That's why chisels aren't sharpened to the same narrow angle as knives. The shovel has a wider blade than the axes so I don't miss, and more weight than the machetes. It works better than all 4 of them for lopping off certain sizes of floppy green branches. It even lops of branches that my loppers won't. But nothing I own compares to my 18" machete for most branches, and the axes work best for big dry branches.

[Big Frank]

I got a small pocket knife from the NRA one time that I gave them some money. The blade is maybe 2" or less, I don't know. But it felt really sharp. I wanted to see just how sharp it was so I shaved my beard off with it. I never shaved my beard off with anything before or since. I always cut it off a beard trimmer or something and then shaved, but this time I skipped that step and shaved it off. When I was done it looked like a small furry animal in the bathroom sink, and I was feeling kind of stubbly. But I wasn't bleeding, and I had to shave again with a twin razor to clean up the rough spots. Considering that I never even shaved with a straight razor in my entire life, I thought I did a pretty good job with a little pocket knife.