CRKT HalfAChance Parang - FYI

[etrain16]

I know a guy named Eli that carries one of those.

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Love that movie!

 

[etrain16]

His is longer.

Story of my life

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Yeah, old Gerbers good!

New Gerbers bad!

 

[jordanka16]

Amazon emailed me this morning to tell me my parang will be here next week, looking forward to running it through its paces.

 

[The Heretic]

Yeah, old Gerbers good!

New Gerbers bad!

All mine have been bought in the last year or two

 

[Bon Sauvage]

His is longer.

Pervert

 

[The Heretic]

Chopped up some green fallen maple and alder trees today - 3 to 4 inches thick. Did a good job of it, although it took longer and more work than sawing through them with a gas powered chain saw pruner.

 

[The Heretic]

And I am receiving two more on Tuesday

 

[jordanka16]

Mine is due on Wednesday, and I have a price alert set up for if they go on sale again. If it's nice I would like to have one in every vehicle and one or two for the house. I use the OKC machete now but I like the idea of the parang style blade.

 

[Camelfilter]

Chopped up some green fallen maple and alder trees today - 3 to 4 inches thick. Did a good job of it, although it took longer and more work than sawing through them with a gas powered chain saw pruner.

Do you have/use one of those pruning saws?

Like such:

Japanese Pruning Saw - Garrett Wade

We have a fixed blade version similar to above (knock off-Coleman branded). Makes real quick cuts, especially if softer/live wood.

 

[The Heretic]

I have a bow saw, but I don't use it. I use this:

 

[Hang-Man]

I like a Strong blade and well thought out Grip, most store bought stuff didn't have what I liked, if they did, was too expensive so I built a 2X72" belt grinder, a couple forges and now make Exactly what I want. BUSSE was the main contributor to my dislike of over priced blades.
CRKT makes some decent blades for the $$, Value is something we all seek and rarely find this day and age.

 

[Cigarlvr313]

Hard to go wrong with Stihl.....

 

[etrain16]

Got mine on Tuesday. Looks like a well built blade for the money. I'll hopefully give it a try this weekend out in the yard.

 

[jordanka16]

I got mine on Wednesday, it does look like a good blade, the handle is especially nice, looking forward to giving it a workout.

 

[The Heretic]

Yeah, I got mine Monday - two of them in a large box with no packing.

Not that they were damaged, but I can see why Amazon makes no profit - their shipping practices are poor. The box was about 90% dead air - you could put another 50 parangs in it.

I know they are all about speed and volume (and low cost and working their warehouse people half to death) but they have been in business for 23 years now and I think they would have learned by now how to make a decent profit on their retail sales and how to pack things for shipping - it is their computing services that are propping up their profits.

No sweat off my brow - I am pleased to get some value goods and services from them, but I am not impressed by how they ship things - from my perspective anyway.

 

[Twodogs]

I've had a cold steel kukri for about 20 yrs , used to sell woodsmans pals but they never cut like the kukri.

 

[The Heretic]

I've had a cold steel kukri for about 20 yrs , used to sell woodsmans pals but they never cut like the kukri.

I have a Gerber brush hook, but it doesn't compare at all.

 

[Flymph]

CRKT makes a fine blade. I got the M16 a bout ten years ago on clearance at Walmart for like $13, I noticed they're still making them and sell for around $40. They're a good little blade.

Reminds me, I should sharpen my knives tonight.

 

[Dungannon]

I've had it for a couple of weeks now. Got it on sale on Amazon for $25 - which I could not pass up (normal price is $45). If it goes on sale again I will buy a couple more.
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I've had this on my Amazon wishlist ever since you first posted on it. The price has hovered around $45-48 for six months. Noticed today that it had dropped back to $26 so I ordered one.