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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 19:36:20 GMT
My mom needed some hay off of a round bale for her chicken house, and the remaining hay was too dense for her to pull off. I thought "Great, let's bring a couple of swords to this hay bale and attack it!" It was almost dark, so I grabbed my Tinker GSOW, my CS Grosse Messer, and my double bladed battle axe. I used the Tinker GSOW first, stabbing to see how it worked with the spatulate tip, and got in a foot to a foot and a half. Cutting wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but it beat out a machete which even though nearly razor sharp, pretty much bounced off without doing anything to the hay Next, the Messer stabbed a little better than the GSOW, but cut far better, going perhaps six inches into the hay bale Finally, the battle axe cut the deepest, going all the way in up to the handle ;D I think this proves for heavy cutting, a machete is nothing compared to large swords and especially a battle axe. Next time, I will bring a couple of Katana to the bale, along with a 3/4 size double bladed wood axe. The hay leaves a dusty mess on the sword and axe blades, requiring me to hose it off, then dry and re-oil the blades I have to be careful, since I am deathly allergic to hay dust, I found out one time when was a little kid, I needed an ambulance ride to the hospital after playing in a hay stack
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2010 1:25:36 GMT
That sounds like a blast. I mean, uh, that sounds like important research into sword dynamics when impacting densely packed fibrous targets. Yes, that's what I meant. Be careful of that dust, man, dedication is nice but we don't need any dispatches from the hospital.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2010 14:51:41 GMT
Thanks, Slacktitude, I wear a filter mask any time I mow. or move a round bale with the tractor. Those evil hay bales are poisonous Another good reason they need to be chopped ;D When use my Katana, I should be able to cut it in half, right Kidding ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2010 18:39:59 GMT
Thanks, Slacktitude, I wear a filter mask any time I mow. or move a round bale with the tractor. Those evil hay bales are poisonous Another good reason they need to be chopped ;D When use my Katana, I should be able to cut it in half, right Kidding ;D With proper form swordmonger7 san, anything is possible! =D Cris
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2010 22:42:36 GMT
Thanks, Slacktitude, I wear a filter mask any time I mow. or move a round bale with the tractor. Those evil hay bales are poisonous Another good reason they need to be chopped ;D When use my Katana, I should be able to cut it in half, right Kidding ;D Come on now!!!We all know that a katana can cut through a tank-sheeessh!A hay bale should be nothing but air to the samuraii blade!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2010 23:05:50 GMT
Thanks, Slacktitude, I wear a filter mask any time I mow. or move a round bale with the tractor. Those evil hay bales are poisonous Another good reason they need to be chopped ;D When use my Katana, I should be able to cut it in half, right Kidding ;D Come on now!!!We all know that a katana can cut through a tank-sheeessh!A hay bale should be nothing but air to the samuraii blade! Especially my Masahiro Odachi! That blade is PATTERN WELDED after all ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2010 15:25:17 GMT
Update, Mom needed more hay off that hay bale, so this time I took my 3/4 size double-bladed wood axe, and my Cheness Nagase Katana (29" blade if I remember correctly) to the hay bale. Result? hitting the bale with the Cheness Katana at around the C.O.P. did very little damage , but thrusts penetrated very well However, when I did slashing cuts with the first 2 to 3 inches of the blade, it did pretty good No surprise when I took the axe to the bale, it penetrated beyond the handle well into the bale On one cut near the end of the bale, the axe went all the way through, and stopped next to my shin had it been 2 inches over, I would have found out how deep an axe would penetrate a human leg I just thank the Lord I did not have a trip to the ER, and a post in the "Swords are not toys, graphic images" thread ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2010 18:51:35 GMT
Ya that would have been bad, hospital trips are never fun. I expected the katana would not work very well, it just doesn't have the mass to get deep cuts on that dense of a target.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2010 21:03:54 GMT
Actually, I was disappointed in how all of the swords performed, the Cold Steel Grosse Messer did the best of the swords, outdoing the Tinker GSOW, which surprised me, I expected better performance from the Tinker GSOW, which did no better than the other swords, doing minimal damage Next time I will try my Masahiro pattern-welded Odachi, and my Chinese Dadao I suspect the Dadao will do well, since it is a very thick, heavy sword. The Odachi is long, but not very heavy for it's size, so it may not "Make Much Hay"
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Post by sparky on Aug 30, 2010 21:21:18 GMT
Brings a different meaning to the term "playing in the hay"! Somehow I don't think my wife would believe me If I asked her if she wanted to "play in the hay"......... no really with swords honey!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2010 3:43:48 GMT
Funny thing is they just had the Nova - Secrets of the Samurai program on and it showed students cutting hay/reeds in shapes of people. I actually thought of trying something similar with a low end sword.
although dying from cutting hay does put a certain spin on things...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2010 4:05:12 GMT
I bet that that Grosse Messer, or any other European longsword would do a better job on that bale than a katana.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2010 4:55:45 GMT
Yeah, hay bales are tough to cut, unless you hit the cord holding it together, then they explode.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2010 19:54:10 GMT
I bet that that Grosse Messer, or any other European longsword would do a better job on that bale than a katana. It did, but I was surprised/disappointed when the Tinker GSOW, (a large Euro for those new to the forum) didn't do a better job than it did I thought it would do about what the Grosse Messer did. Don't write off the Katanas though, I have yet to try the mighty Odachi, a very long form of the Katana
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