October 26, 20214 yr This had a tag but it just said chopper. The blade is heavy duty and had been sharpened.
October 26, 20214 yr Popular Post It's a brush axe, we have them in our survey trucks to clear line for line of sight during surveys. I guess the actual name is a "Swedish Brush Axe"
October 26, 20214 yr Popular Post 19 minutes ago, John Morris said: It's a brush axe, we have them in our survey trucks to clear line for line of sight during surveys. I guess the actual name is a "Swedish Brush Axe" Funny, doesn't look like an "Inga from Sweden". I expect it's a harsh mistress either way. .40
October 26, 20214 yr Sandvik brush cutter. Got a LOT of use out of those while working up north in '67. Found them so handy, I bought one when I got back home to clean up some areas around the farm. It disappeared somewhere along the line, and I miss it! Two cuts will take down an aspen sapling as big around as your forearm.
October 28, 20214 yr On 10/26/2021 at 10:04 PM, FlGatorwood said: Machete does wonders when it is properly sharpened. True, but that long blade can be dangerous if misused. Also, we used Sandviks to thin out poplars that had been seeded via airplane several years earlier. The seeds tended to clump, producing dense stands of saplings 2" t0 3" in size. That would have taken a lot of one-handed chopping with a machete, leaving the unused hand to get in the way! The Sandvik uses a two-handed approach, so was safer for a bunch of mostly city kids turned loose in the woods. We only had one mishap... that oversized razor blade can cut right through the steel toe cap of a safety boot, as one lad found out! He got a chopper ride and a week of lounging around the camp.
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