roys
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Beer bottle opening is certainly a good use of the notch, believe it had several uses including what you mentioned plus a drip point and a marker for the end point of the sharpening edge. i also inherited my dads kukri from his military days in the 60’s it is still in very good condition even with my brother and I playing with it during the 70’s, it was the 70’s after all😀
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Think that was a bit of an urban myth 😀
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Usually the two smaller knifes served different functions, one was blunt (chakmak) and used for removing burrs from the main blade and the other was a small utility knife (Karda).
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My kukri which has spent a few shifts in the woods.
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Found the bill hook in a field by a stone dyke wall, well rusted and no sign or remnants of any handle, the tang is 6” long with no signs of it being peened over in its past life, although I do see the logic in that and I do have two kukri’s with the tang peened over.
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Good info and picture, what do you mean by “caulked handle” I am guessing it is the flatter profile rather than round but as I say only a guess?
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Cheers, but I’m not sure what you mean, it is a 6” tang and other than friction from hammering the handle onto the tang nowt to stop it coming off, but how else would / could you do to it to make it more secure? I know with kukri’s they allow the end of the tang to poke out the end of the handle where it is then (peaned) mushroomed over but I haven’t seen that done on a billhook, of course willing to be corrected on that.
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Thank you, just noticed a marking above the “Made in England” mark, I think it says “Brades”
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As an update, my mate has turned a bit of hickory to make a new handle.
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Wasp as in a helicopter?
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We had to get our jet turbine generators (Rolls Royce RB211) water washed after so many hours of use, however if this was required when ambient was below 5 deg C they would wash it using walnut shells to mitigate against the damage caused by freezing.
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I’m impressed Mike
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You also do a mighty fine job of pulling out rhododendron😀
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I am not an arborist but outside and working and playing in the woods a lot, the knots I use the most are: Munter hitch Clove hitch, Siberian hitch, Fig 8, bowline, ( one handed and the 2nd knot I learned) reef knot ( the first knot I ever learned) I do like knots.
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Ahhh the old chuck key in the chuck trick😀
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Oh man, don’t think that is what is meant when they say do a break fall. only had a plastercast on once, when it came off my wrist and hand after 6 weeks it looked like it belonged to someone else, all strength and muscle gone, it soons build back up but it did surprise me. Speedy recovery eggs.
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Wonder if he also offers a window cleaning service.
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I can 2nd the Charnwood being a great stove, I have been using a 16b multifuel for about 18 years, last year was the 1st part I had to change, a plate at the back of the grate think it was about £60, so it’s doing good touch wood. @Alycidonare the 16b’s still made or do they have a direct replacement, just thinking if it it die catastrophicallywhat would I replace it with as it does all my domestic hot water and central heating ? -
Won’t work as he is needing to measure about 1200 ohms, needs to use a multimeter set to resistance (ohms)
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Think the issue re the continuity test is, as hinted at, that you did it on the buzzer which would not buzz at the expected 1200 ohms, it will have to be tested with the meter on the Ohms range and not the continuity buzzer.
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Yip I was just about to say that😀
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Road Traffic Film remover
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Guess he is just being pragmatic where you have more emotional involvement with it. I am only second guessing as I am not there.
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You are of course correct but a 500 m extension is going to be a twat to coil up at the end of a shift😀
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Hate being Captain Obvious, but you have tried a different spark plug?
