It sounds like a pretty exciting little community. I remembered back when my dad used to take us off-roading into the wilderness, he'd always have a Swiss Army knife in a cute leather pouch by his belt. Not sharpish, but good enough to stab a monkey of it starts attacking. I guess carrying an extra machete would help, too.
I don't know anything about knives, but I think my video game exposure had thought me a thing or two. Here's something interesting that I'd love to see come to fruition, a collapsible sword. I don't know why one would need this, but if you're ever surrounded by a gang of angry monkeys, I guess it would help, eh?
I've got a few machete's, one in the shape of a Roman sword, a gladius. I'll do a post on it eventually.
I'm not sure how a collapsible sword would go, I mean on a video game it might work fine, but in real life? Who knows.
I guess it would be a bit flimsy, seeing how the mechanism supposedly works. A Roman sword however, now that's pretty fab. Not sure how a machete'd Gladius would work, but the real things are pretty effective tools for dispersing barbarians and Caesars alike.
Well, think less machete and more straight up fucking sword. It was sold as a "machete" for specific reasons and I call it a machete, for specific reasons.
Here it is my brother. I'll post about it someday.
Oakleys for size perspective.
Nicely weighted, sharp as fuck and black which assists when used in night operations.Not a true gladuis of course, but good enough for the G-dog. He takes his edged
weaponstools seriously.Jesus, I didn't realise its legal to own a sword! I mean, erm, "machete". It looks I might want to warn Bruce's cousins the next time he tries tossing G-Dog. Looks like you could slice a Roo or two :-|
Machetes are used here in the same way as they are elsewhere, for clearing foliage, and they're readily available. A good tool to have when one has stuff to cut down, coconuts to open etc. 🙂
Given how much you travel into the brush, having a machete would no doubt be rather helpful. Alternatively, if one wishes to tempt fate with death, then a machete could also be helpful in cutting open a durian.
none of my machetes would get anywhere near a durian...They have more sense than to bite into the flesh of that stinky bastard fruit.