The best parang ... ever?

Then, as often happens in the jungle, some rats trapped me here. I just wanted to show you something about what I read in a book recently by Mark Cunningham and he wrote a book about walking in the Amazon and he spent years and years in the jungle and in the end I got a little sick of using a machete or

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because you know he He thought his point of view was you know it's very tiring, they sweat, right? You know it's very ecological and you know it's dangerous, you cut yourself and it's over. using pruning shears like these and you know, a folding saw that you would use, you know, if you had to do a heavier work life, I was very interesting because far, I mean, I don't necessarily agree with him, I mean, I like a peel. and for various reasons I prefer it in part, I guess because for me in the jungle, this is my last line of defense, you know, this guy, Mark Cunningham, in the Amazon, he had a gun, you know, so if he was attacked for someone. animal or what

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at least he had a gun all I have is a father and I can't get a gun here so you know, okay, I prefer couples, I can't find them at all, it's exhausting, but I think you know The point you're making is interesting because you know the more you use a matchup, the less you end up using it in the jungle.

You know you only use it when you need it. You avoid obstacles if you can and you know that you are when you're cutting weeds, you know that you're doing it in a more surgical way, you're not just cutting

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ything randomly, so that's what I wanted to see today, you know, because a lot of people has written on the site I say what is the

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base to use and you know what to look for in a pine tree. I just want to go over that again in part because of the things I've learned in the last year from people.

Writing and what do you have and things that I've seen that changed my attitude a little bit and also because you know one of the topics that I want to cover, you know, this year is to look at it as a kit and equipment for the jungle a little more debt and in particular you know how to make it as light as possible because that's really important the jungle you know you don't want to carry a heavy bag here you know it's just going to knock you out is really irritating so that's what we're going to do today you know look at the piranha and see how you try to see what makes you meet a good nosy Parral and if there is a better

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for you.

By the way, you know you can buy this, it's the book that seems to fascinate leeches, in case you're interested, it's very interesting to read, it's an interesting guy, so contact me also about leeches or anything, so one of things. What I was doing last year was I went to Taman Negara, which is a nice primary rainforest, and there was a guy there who is an e ban Sarawak and Iman who had this very small couple and I was here. I was quite intrigued. that, because you know I'm, the blade couldn't be more than twenty centimeters and yes, this is it, and when I came back I bought this one, which is very light, it only weighs about 300 grams, it has a very short blade and you know that there is a kind of conventional wisdom is that you want a longer blade for a couple of reasons: one it keeps your hand away from what you're cutting so you know there's some sort of safety element that you know and the second reason is that you know that A longer blade gives you more swing, so it's better to cut with it, but I think this is actually very good.

I haven't really had any problems with that. Certainly in terms of trail cleaning it's very good and because it's shaped like this it keeps your hands away from whatever you're trying to cut so you know I was pretty interesting and made a holster out of just a little bit of plastic. I don't want the things they used to roast. to mark cables on the ground and you know, everything weighs about 400, unless it's actually about 350 grams, very, very light, very small and it's very quick to use and a lot of control over it and I like it a lot.

This has become one of my favorite combinations, the only modification I made to it was to the handle. I just sanded it with the lift here because I like to have a little bit of movement and you know, on the outcast and this thing. I was just preventing the handle of the board from moving in my hand like I wanted, but cool, you know, I mean, that costs 35 Ringgit, which is about seven pounds, about ten US dollars, I guess, so you know, very accomplished, pretty and sharp, you know? and very It's very easy to use, so I drove over here because I want to show you some of the secondary jungle, because the secondary jungle is basically where the big trees have been cut down and the jungle is getting a lot of life, which is unusual.

We know that you typically get less than ten percent of the sunlight that actually reaches the canopy floor and because of so much sunlight that you get, different types of plants lay down on the vines to get these pioneer trees and it's very dense, you know. , the dense plant matter cuts so you know that's when you'll see people wear these longer pairs like this, which is like a tank on the pairing, and that's pretty safe for you, you can get them for that long, I mean , and they are used in a sliding move, you are not actually using a wrist with this at all, it is a slashing move, so you know they are suitable for this type of sub jungle, if you are actually clearing a path, I know that often you're not, you're not actually clearing a path, you're just moving through it and you're cutting through things that you know the main obstacles are in your way, but you know that's what you know, to be honest, I do not do it.

I don't really use it, it's too heavy, it's tiring to use and you know, I don't go into sub jungle if I can help it because it's not very nice, so anyway, in terms of moving on, getting back to that question, you know? blade length is when you know a longer blade is really helpful, but more and more in the last year you know I'm coming to the conclusion that you know shorter blade lengths help maybe 12 inches is really enough. you just don't find the need to pry that's longer than what's around you so you know this is a secondary jungle and you know the other thing about this type of jungle is that you can't really see where you're putting your feet. and there are snakes in this part of the jungle, I know because I've seen them, so you wanted to put on some boots when you go through this kind of thing, but I'm going to go a little further, yes, you can see a lot.

Pioneer trees or short trees that grow fast in very soft wood and you just know that you don't need to go very far before you know that you will have to start fighting your way through some very grueling jungle to travel through this. I just wanted to show you the difference between, you know, it's a kind of secondary jungle, which is very difficult to get through and you have weeds and plants and vines growing everywhere and you know forests suitable for the type of rains where the canopies keep most of of sunlight off the forest floor and those kinds of sun-hungry plants don't grow and if you're walking through an area like this where there's a union forest that hasn't been disturbed too much, you know a short paragraph you're like this It would be okay because you're just going to cut off some branch or some rotten branch, you know it's out of the way, but you can still maneuver around any major obstacle and you know the other good thing. they are snakes, you have a much better chance of seeing them here than in the secondary jungle, you know another aspect to consider when choosing a piranha is to see it and feel it because you are like with The clocks say the same time, but there is a big difference in price and you know that there are many options available, so some of these classes you know almost as an emotional choice or you know that you just like to have something that is nice and that is good.

These two Cartland piranhas act, you know, more or less the same way, but the wooden one, which you know, I think I made the blade, I made the handle, you know, I like it a lot and you know it's nice, it's nice take the difference between this one and you know the lightweight version of my soul is just like this it weighs around 350 grams this is almost double it weighs around 650 grams so you know you might pay a price but I understand you know sometimes it's nice to take in something that's nice, you have to cut, you know, heavy wood or you know, strong dry bamboo, dead Mambu like this, you know you want a little bit heavier cut and although the sofa and about that, you know, I go through some halfway.

Last year was great because it is a very good helicopter. Do you know if that's really what it does well? Now you know the problem with this matchup is that it's heavy. I mean, the parang with the case weighs about 850 grams. You know there's a lot, but it's not just the weight, you know, there's a weight of everything together, but if you're just trying to move like a right turn, if I'm just trying to do a little movement like that because it's a good helicopter, the matchmaking keeps moving forward and that can be quite tiring on the wrist because if you have to keep stopping it to figure out how to clear the light rail, you know it's a little tiring to use it to build shelters or if I'm building a raft or I'm doing some intense clearing work in the jungle so you know this is great so what I find is I tend to take this if I'm just going out for the day because I'm not going to. to strip too much, you know I'm not going to wear it too much, but you know if I wanted a longer track, I'd want something lighter and less tiring to wear, and you know that's true.

Say you know, like this bamboo I just cut, I mean, I could easily crawl under it. You know, very often in the jungle you don't need to do the heavy clearing that you know you've seen people do. in the movie you can just maneuver around it so you know this is like I say, very nice upside down, very good buyer, has a very nice edge, no complaints about it other than it's too good of a helicopter so you know you have that way of going that you have to start when you're getting things out of the way another thing that I've discovered over the last 12 months is that I've been putting a little bit sharper edge on the peeling and I'll show you how to do it is very quick, but I just put a little sharper edge on it than before because I'm not doing as much cutting and trail clearing as I used to, now I'm just moving through the jungle more and you know, cutting things out of the way, that's a pain. and block my part, these things.

I just want to show you that you know that it is very complicated to cut because it offers no resistance and it is a very resistant material like a type of vine that you come across a lot. and it falls, you know the way and you need a strong around, you know, to get over this with a forceful parang, you know, you just won't be able to cut, it's really so yeah, in the last 12 months, something that I have Personal change is just put a slightly sharper edge on the pine. Another parameter that I use a lot is this.

This is one of the first ones I got and you know it's had a rough life. years and originally the blade was probably that thick, you know, I have it. I use it for some heavy gardening work. I was heating stones with it and you know I had to resharpen everything and you know this is kind of parang. for me and it was my first attempt at trying to get the peeling weight down, so this has like a little sharpening stone, you know, and a lightweight sheath protected with a piece of metal inside, but I just wanted you to know how to use this it's only shown to talk a little about Perón's edge retention, which is not good.

You hit rocks with these things, you know, they're not big chunks and they need to be sharpened all the time, but you know with a pairing it's like a continuous process, so you know you get into the habit of sharpening a lot, like I was saying before I joined this one. year I've been putting a sharper edge on the father, which is mainly because I went into such a heavy clearing that you know that's what I used to do, so I've been putting a sharper edge now, you know, to sharpen a tip, I will do this again at home, it would be easier to show. you, but you know, I can get these little pieces of whetstone and lay them on a reasonably flat surface, you know, and I can sharpen it, I mean, literally, it takes a few minutes and that's the normal, normal way, you know, I used to do it.

I found that I just had to get a little better edge towards the end once you had a decent edge instead of doing a back and forth motion, the forward motion and the blade tilts like this and then I tilt it down to come back . So I'm doing that kind of movement. I'll show you at home. It's easy to show, but the other thing you might want to do is once you burn, you know, once you sharpen it, you just grab some wood and there you are. I know I mean you like to leave it, you just want to get rid of any wire edges you may have, you know, on the parang, so a few taps you know on a piece of wood will remove any wire edges you have, but you know, I've had this parang for years, it's honest, it's great too, so long story short, you have meringues like this that are good for cutting, you have some tips like the ones II do on the couch and all of which is you know it's good to cut a lot, you're very good at doing that and then you have rows like this, which you know is very light but perfectly adequate so you know to lighten the weight of your Regular jungle clearing as you progress. through the jungle from there you can go to something like this, which is a version that looks nicer, but it's heavier and you know it's up to you, yeah, like I was saying before, Perón.

I mean, I've had it for years and it's perfectly adequate, so you know, it depends on what you're doing and I'm sure new designs will come out of the jungle here and you know, they'll come out every year or maybe I. I'll say something different next year, I don't know, but if I had to pick one parameter out of the four that they haven't been using primarily this year, I think this one is simply because of the weight. and the fact that it is very easy to use it is not tiring it is fast fast nice Peron and cheap too