Mein Hackmesser

[ElkviewRanch]

Hier is mein Hackmesser.

Zwei kg's, Walnüß grips. Hangs in the kitchen pantry and ready to make steaks from roasts. We butcher our game and home grown lamb into mostly roasts now, and grab the Hackmesser wehn needed.

I made it from a heavy log processor bar. Edge is a stout double bevel that holds up on any bone it contacts.

 

[Egbert]

Klasse Teil !

 

[Sanji]

Vernünftige Größe. Kleiner darf so was nicht sein

 

[corax]

Hello ElkviewRanche,
great chopper! Could you explain what a "heavy log processor bar" is?
I could imagine that it is a heavy tool to split tree trunks, but I'm not sure. (something like this: http://carlneutzel.com/firewood.html ?)

Regards
corax

 

[RR20]

Hi ElkviewRanch,

i saw many nice pictures from you, not only this heavy knife.

Thanks for the impressions, looks that you have much fun

greetings from vienna (austria)

 

[sanjuro]

Hier ist mein Hackmesser........

It's huge.......it's American!

Greetz

sanjuro

 

[rolando]

Wow, ganz schöner Klopper das Ding!

Genau die richtige größe :teuflisch

 

[ElkviewRanch]

Danke alle.

A log processor is a huge, tracked machine that goes from tree to tree and grabs the tree, cuts the tree, delimbs the tree and stacks it. There are various types of these but some use a heavy bar chainsaw to buck {cut into lengths} the tree.

The processor bars are very heavy and make superb, heavy, classic cleavers.

This Hackmesser works well for classic Hackmesser work; splitting carcasses, making chops, etc. The Hackmesser has mostly been replaced by the bandsaw in butcher shops and such in America. So the Hackmesser isn't used very much, except at my place where it is used all the time!

 

[freak1308]

Great chopper, reminds of an artical in the us knife magazine Blade, where a classic cleaver and a parang are tested.

Is this monosteel or is the log processor bar a "sandwiche" made of different types of steels?


Greetings

ralle

 

[ElkviewRanch]

Freak, that is mine. I have written a number of articles over the yaers pertaining to various knives. Some I've made, some I've just tested.

The cleaver was one I wrote up for Krause Publications.

 

[Silverperson]

hi man over there,
sh.... what a thing---
in former times such a thing was used over here to
chop of heads of bad ones....
looks like you can use for slaughtering too----
holy jeeses

 

[Walter2929]

Danke alle.

A log processor is a huge, tracked machine that goes from tree to tree and grabs the tree, cuts the tree, delimbs the tree and stacks it. There are various types of these but some use a heavy bar chainsaw to buck {cut into lengths} the tree.

is it what we call a "harvester"?
However, if it is so, which part is used for the blade? The chain, part of the chassis or what? Would be very interesting for me.
Regards
Walter

 

[Andschi]

Hey

That´s great!
It´s a big thing

Can you hold it in one Hand for working?

Thank´s for showing

Greetings Andree

 

[Anvil1971]

YEAH man - love it

 

[natto]

is it what we call a "harvester"?
However, if it is so, which part is used for the blade?

Genau, so wie ich das verstanden habe, geht es einfach um das Sägeblatt der Kettensäge, hier in der etwas größeren Ausführung. Vorn befindet sich das Stirnrad im Blatt- ein Ritzel-, hinten Ölkanäle. Der mittlere Teil ist massiv. Hier sind die Bezeichnungen der Teile von einem aus vielen Reportagen bekannten deutschen Hersteller- in der kleinen Version.

Gruß natto

PS: Anscheinend hat dieses 'Bar' kein Stirnrad, oder das Stirnrad ist inzwischen selbstverständlich, und wird nicht mehr erwähnt.

 

[ElkviewRanch]

Hello and thanks.

The processor bar is the part that the chain rides around. Yes, natto, like a blade that the chain runs around.

This part of the chainsaw makes for a very good knife. Most seem to be made for 1080 or some such carbon spring steel. They are easy to anneal and reharden and temper.

The processor bars are thicker than regular handheld chainsaw bars.