This machete 101 video has a lot of info about applying a machete to bushcraft or modern camping. This is just the first machete-based video we'll see from the passionate machete enthusiast, Joe Flowers. reddirtsurvival...
Awesomely informative and entertaining. I'm buying a joe flowers knife because his enthusiasm and personality has won me over. I'd love to have this guy over for dinner all ages would be in awe.
guess no 1 caught on that if I use the pich grip that has to mean I have a very lil dick.. I set my self up to get clowned by a troll but it never happened :(
You mentioned that you’d show how to fix a ding from a rock but never showed it. Is that in a different video? ...because I will totally watch more machete videos.
Costa Rican here, great video. Just to add we use machetes here to work in Banana, Sugar and Coffee plantations (heavy work), cut grass to feed farm animals, to kill snakes, fishing in rivers shores, and to open coconuts (very dangerous btw).
I grew up in Peru and I've seen the skill they have. I also saw a man that landed on a 2ft sapling cut at an angle and it was ugly. please finish the job and cut to ground level.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on the subject and should be of benefit to many. I surely could have used it decades ago. I’ve had or been near a machete since I was a child and have had some sorry ones and good ones, but never was a machete fan. I considered them only something to be reckoned with. In the military Uncle supplied me with Ontarios, not surprisingly. Even those with their reputation failed to impress me. Little did I know, or consider, the fault was my ignorance. After all, what is there to know? It’s a long knife, blade at one end and a handle at the other. It never occurred to me to ask how to use it. That’s just as well as if I said how do I use this thing, sarge (who probably knew no more than I did about it) his wrath would have been greater than I wanted not to mention the ribbing I’d get from my buddies. I’ve been living in Central America now for approaching a quarter of a century and the Latinos make good instructors. Machetes are now a favourite of mine and king here. The only thing that I can think of that you didn’t touch on is their digging ability. You mentioned in the video that you had a follow up on kukris and parangs, neither of which I was able to find. Kukris, I like and use about as much as machetes. I can’t say which is best, to me that depends on the job at hand.
that tip about using a grabot (sp?) just changed my life! that's gonna make trail clearing so much easier for me now! and the bushcrafting tips! thanks for that. :D
Love the sound. On the pointy wood problem. Usually I’ll just cut the tip again to make it less sharp. I feel to cut again at the bottom still has the pointy danger and also introduce more danger of cutting your feet.
Joe, you legit you alright with me I love the way how you showing the correct way how to use the machetes because I just got 2 machetes different length though 1 is a 22" and the other is a 18" different brand though.
I consider myself to be pretty good with the machete (for an ohioan), but I admit that I'm a bit unsafe towards myself with the leg placement thing. I tend to make diagonal saber-slash like chops.
i live in a place where machetes are very impotent in the garden and i found that Fiskars x3 is a super tool! light, good steel, and a nice blade shape. good video =) thanks
Agree with the pinch grip. I have a 1945 US issue and swear the thing slices better than Amy store bought machete. Why is that? Does say true temper and the steal has circles in it.
Hi Eric be sure to check Joe out at Bushcraft Global. He can take you to the Amazon for that hike and show you some pretty smoove machete skills in person :)
Salve amigo! Primeiramente parabéns pelo vídeo! Boas colocações sobre o facão! Aqui no Brasil, no estado onde vivo, o facão faz parte da tradição como ferramenta para todos os tipos de trabalho. Em especial, no bushcraft, essa é uma das ferramentas principais do homem do mato. Com ela fazemos desde abrigos até pequenos trabalhos em madeira. É muito legal saber que ai também vocês utilizam! Grande abraço do Brasil e parabéns pelo vídeo!
Personally i wouldent recommend the pitch grip, you wanna make sure you have a good hold of the thing, especially after long hours, instead leave the wrist loose after the machete makes impact and if it cuts trough you just let it turn with the wrist, grew up using machetes and i think thats how i do it without putting too much thought into it,i maybe had it slip a couple times when working on the rain long time but very rare :)
I love my machetes. Last time I went to Colombia and thought I would be picking up a good and cheap one there. I mean it's close to Brasil and Tramontina is a really good brand. They do make very nice leather sheaths in Colombia but very poor quality machetes imo and could not even find a Tramontina. Next time going to Colombia I will bring my own machete. Very nice video btw. ;) Atb from Holland
I find Bellota makes a good machete. If you are in Colombia again check them out. I’ve bought three over the last 15 years or so of different styles, not because they gave out. All are still going strong. Best regards from Costa Rica.
@@pgandy1 Ok. I did not find that brand. I will look for it next time I visit. The one I used is a different brand. Maybe locally made. And functional as a machete but just not the quality I hoped for. I hear Imacasa machetes are also pretty good. Greetings from Holland.
Very good points here you are one of the very few ove seen that knows the proper way to use a machete, namely the pinch grip very good point also comment on not using the lanyard, the only use for it is to hang it
11:40. Amazing! I had thought that sharpened clip/back edge was some silly Rambo-style affectation, but the short, sharpened back edge has a real purpose.
My friend found a piece of rebarb sticking of of the ground while it was raining in his creek, slipped, fell, and the rebarb shishkabobbed his wiener. So you wanna be careful when its raing by sharp pointy things.
Wild man!like it.ive had 15-20 machetes over the years.most were crap some were decent & I just didn't know it.have kept only 2. Vietnam ,possibly a WW 2? Ontario that was my pop's.us on plastic handle.May vaguely remember a olive drab nylon sheath from when I was 8-9.?& A Condor parang .it's goood.trying the grabit on invasive( huge ) species briars in am.before they get hard & out of control.thx from Sandhills of NC.LIKE&SUBED.
I watched this video again and Joe has the knowledge and has a natural fun way of presenting. I never did see the part two but came across some channels from people in South East Asia that often use it as their only tool for everything and they do wear flip flops or are barefoot. I don't recommend this for beginners but as Joe says they grow up using this tool. My favorite has become the 12" Tramontina and I'm thinking about making one into a 10" as a cross between a large cook knife and small machete. You can use a machete for food prep and made a short video about it 9 years ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GFFqBNhi_iQ.html
well...some useful stuff here I didn't know yet^^ the pistol grip on the parang thou....for some reason it didn't take me long to suddenly slip back there and just hold it like that
You the second American I've seen that knows how to use a machete the other talk a lot of b.s. they don't know about in Central America 5yr old can use one that true the first one you were using looks like a Collins to me what part of Central America did you lived and how long cause you surely didn't learn all that in the states