Just for SwampDonkey I'm going to start a thread just for our hooked brush machetes.

In another post I mentioned how I love it but it's not great for chopping wood.

Well today I spent the afternoon at Elk Island National Park and was pretty surprised with it's performance. Being a national park, cutting down small trees for wood is a no-no but they supply firewood in bins for park use.

Unfortunately they're not on their game this winter and the bin was empty. After plowing through knee deep know and checking every fire pit I found some logs and proceeded to try and chop them.

I had much better luck today than in the summer as frozen wood is more splittable than the wet and green summer wood that is pretty common around here. Some of it was pretty knotty and I still managed to get enough Kindling to get a small fire going in the tiny park fire pits. I didn't even have to baton it but I could have if I'd chosen to.