I bought a machete today.

[GottaHavePride]

Now I can clear out poke plants and excess squash vine from long range. :D

[yermom]

don't you have a weedeater?

i'm guessing you just like to play with knives

[yermom]

Exhibit A:

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12248

:D

[yermom]

what kind did you get?

i think my brother has one of these:
http://www.thebladeshop.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=141

i have one of the crappy ones from Wal-Mart that i bought before i went and got a weedeater

[StoopTroup]

I've got the outcast by Kershaw.

http://personalsecurityzone.com/images/KER1079lg.jpg

KERSHAW OUTCAST KNIFE 10" FIXED BLADE W/ SHEATH

Manufacturer Kershaw
Model Outcast
Type Fixed Blade
Finish/Color TiNi Black
Edge Plain
Description Clip Point
Accessories Kydex Sheath
Size 10"
Frame/Material Double-injection-molded Santoprene (Glass filled Nylon)


However these are pretty bad a**...

http://www.specshop.pl/images/1248-cutlass-machete.jpg

11 in. blade length made of 1085 carbon steel. Handle made of Kraton G. 16.5 in. overall length. Black leather/Cordura combination sheath included.

[yermom]

i can't imagine swinging either of those around my yard :eek:

[olevetonahill]

All of Yall can come on down . I have lots of brush and stuff you can practice on . ;)

[GottaHavePride]

what kind did you get?

i think my brother has one of these:
http://www.thebladeshop.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=141

i have one of the crappy ones from Wal-Mart that i bought before i went and got a weedeater

Yeah, it's basically one of those. Cheap, $10 job. And it's for places where I don't want the mass destruction of the weedeater. You know, there are some plants I'd like to survive. ;)

If I wanted a serious knife, I'd get one of these:

http://store7.yimg.com/I/yhst-7333098713883_1801_1992330

Guaranteed - if you can manage to break it they'll send you two more free. ;)

[PhilTLL]

And there's a 7-day waiting period on handguns. HA!

Of course, I don't believe in controlling either one, but that doesn't make the disparity less ridiculous... :)

[walkoffsooner]

Would you rather someone get ****ed at you and buy a knife or gun?

[Jerk]

I think I'd rather be shot than stabbed. I know I'd rather be in a gunfight than a knife fight.

[crawfish]

I'll officially be disturbed when he buys the hockey mask.

[GDC]

I've still got my grandfather's WW2 Army machete somewhere around here.

[C&CDean]

I do not ever want to see a machete again. My experiences with them ain't all that grand.

When I was a kid (maybe 8-9) we were at my grandpa's farm in Colby, KS. He had maybe 15-20 old (1930's and 40's) cars and trucks in a pasture below his house. Anyhow, I get granny's machete out of the scabbard on her "outside wheelchair" (she was a one-legged diabetic who used the machete to off chickens for dinner on a chopping block that had more gore covering it than Ghengis Khan's executioners block) and my cousin and I go down in that pasture and decided to see what happens if you hit the window on one of the cars with a machete.

So, it was pretty cool for us kids to break every single windshield, rear/side glass, headlight, tail light, and any other glass in those old cars. About that time, my Uncle Dean (yes I was named after him - a Pentecostal preacher BTW) came down and saw us. To make a long story short, he would have been in prison if he did today what he did to us then. He took the flat side of that machete and beat the ever-lovin' **** out of us all the way to the house. I had a couple broken fingers from covering up, big old welts with blood oozing from the edges all over my back/legs/arms, and a knot on my head the size of a baseball.

Granny comes out and says "Dean, you're gonna kill them boys, knock it off." And he knocked it off. Then later, before dinner, when Uncle Dean is saying grace he goes "dear Lord, please forgive Dean and Kent for breaking a couple thousand dollars worth of glass today..."

The second machete story ain't so long.

I hacked my way through the jungles of Panama for several months with one. I hated it. Ain't gonna hack nothing with a machete no more.