Part 2 of machete styles. #sword #history #nerd #farming #machete

[kreyperez]

If I was to customize a machete, I'd go for the latin style blade with the golok handle

[HeyNighT_Art]

Fun fact, the golok machete is one of the most popular type of machete in Indonesia
And we usually used those to cut bamboo, cutting down banana and coconut trees, making Coconut ice drink, and for cutting livestock's

[krislaracoelho]

I'm from southeastern Brazil, spent a lot of time in the family's farm, and not gonna lie, the Latin machete and the heavy machete were ubiquitous presences. Heavy is particularly amazing at cutting through woody shrubbery indeed, and both were amazing against sugarcane.
Fun fact, locally, where i live, the Latin machete is often called a "katana", I'm guessing due to Japanese immigrants.

[RatRatRattyRatRat]

"In hunting and..." (Pause) "Tending to livestock!"
Oh no

[Astaroth]

Fun fact: in folklore the golok was a weapon to kill the Dutch colonizers that colonize Indonesia, although I cannot find any actual evidence of that i just heard that from my grandpa that was a guerrilla army back in the days

[rasin]

the Tapanga looks like the inspiration for the Uruk Hai swords in LOTR

[RandyLeftHandy]

If I'm not mistaken the heavy is primarily used for sugar cane and other agricultural uses.

[ravindecavalier]

My parents came from Trinidad and they always used to keep this panga machete with them for years like I mean we had this one machete for the duration of like 15 years bruh and we still used it for gardening and basically everything else. We moved so idk where that machete is but dam bruh machetes can do anything fr 💀😭

[pantrohuerta]

Another use for the latin american machete is fighting the devil on a hill

[steele_heart]

This is pretty cool and all, but which machete would be good for hunting... two-legged game, let's say? Putting a costume together for Halloween... yeah, a Halloween costume.

[cecilrhodes]

The heavy blade bears a STRONG resemblance to a sugar cane knife, which is that blade on a long handle

[rubengoodliff]

💜🔥
Love them all
2023, be like 💯👍🏽✨

[harkness]

As a Filipino I am picking the Barong. Lots of history and one of the blades of honor.

[nomad]

From as far as East Asia to the Caribbean of Haiti, Matchetes have been utilized in combat.

[googlesearchhistory]

Also, fun fact, the medieval version of the billhook (and not the halberd-like polearm) was used by the English alongside longbows even when the rest of the world was beginning to use arquebuses, and it was recorded being used all the way up to the Jamestown colonization

[primary]

Indonesian here, Golok also has its shorter variant. Shape like bucher knife for easier to carry. Wider for sustaining mass for better impact. And it's legal to own because idk and widely use.

[sandwick]

Oh my god I've been waiting for this my whole life everything came up to this moment

[NigoSlaver]

I only thought there was 1 before this guy 🙂

[tumfilius]

In Italy we have the "Roncola" too

[theradioactiveplayer]

A billhook is also used for cutting down and stripping relatively thin shafts of wood