Zenport K310 Brush Clearing Sickle with Carbon Steel Blade and Aluminum Handle, 9″, 9″, Black
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Adams Parker
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- Designed for heavy duty clearing and scrubbing of tough vines weeds undergrowth
- Black soft rubber grips and the 9-inch aluminum tube handle
- Razor sharp 9-inch carbon steel straight edge hooked blade provides powerful cuts
- Useful in many horticulture applications
- Overall tool length measures 18-inches
- Designed for heavy duty clearing and scrubbing of tough vines weeds undergrowth
- Black soft rubber grips and the 9-inch aluminum tube handle
- Razor sharp 9-inch carbon steel straight edge hooked blade provides powerful cuts
- Useful in many horticulture applications
- Overall tool length measures 18-inches
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PERFECT for cutting blackberries and brush. I live on a rural property with a lot of blackberries. I need to trim them back a fair amount to keep them from scratching the paint on our vehicles and we drive down our road. I’ve been using a Fiskars Brush Axe for the past 15 years or so, and while it’s built really well and it has a hook at the end of the blade to stop the blackberry stalks from just sliding off before they’re cut (we’ve found standard machetes to be pretty useless for blackberries with their straight blades….) the Fiskars never was super sharp in large part because of the thickness of the double-edge blade. This Japanese style chisel blade sickle is SHARP! It’s got a thin blade kerf and a high carbon steel blade, and man it cuts through blackberries like a hot knife through butter!! To be fair, I think the Fiskars is has a thicker blade because it’s designed to cut larger branches, but, this limits it’s effectiveness for blackberry stalks. Add to that the plastic handle (while robust) can easily slip out of a a gloved hand (and we wear gloves to avoid blackberry thorns in our hands….) the sickle has a super comfortable rubber, non-slip handle. It’s also a couple inches shorter than the Fiskars which makes it easier to store. So if you’re looking for a super sharp brush knife to cut blackberries and other underbrush (and we’ve easily cut 1/2″ diameter branches too) this sickle works great!!!
Nice tool, not perfect for grape hedging. I have to hedge a mile long grape trellis every few weeks. I was hoping I could drive along on my small tractor and clip off what stuck out. It does great on anything less than 1/4”. Anything larger than that and I dont get the clean cut I need without holding the vine with the other hand. Which is questionable safety wise. Antique Billhook grape machetes are heavier like a meat cleaver and would probably do a better job on the thick stuff. But it’s hard to find 17th century stuff. I may try the longer handled version of this to see if the extra swing speed helps. It will be great for nipping off suckers, etc next spring. I did resharpen it with a scythe stone to get a concave ,slightly toothy edge. It’s carbon steel, so it rusts, but that’s actually an advantage on scythes, etc. the fine rust help you see where you are removing metal when sharpening. I also rounded the point to prevent eviceration. As everybody else points out, a sheath is a good idea for something this sharp. The one that came with it lasted about 2 uses, so I’ll prolly make something
Gets the job done. I had a section of lawn where the Goldenrod got out of control and this sickle-type knife took care of the problem along with a few brushy shrubs with ease. It came working sharp and retained it’s edge. It seems to be very durable as long as you don’t try using it on anything too heavy.It comes in a rather flimsy “sheath” but it’s good enough for storage. I will clean and oil the blade after use and expect it to last for years.All in all I’m very satisfied!
Great tool for hacking down weeds. It is easy to use and arrived with a nice sharp blade. The construction looks to be of good quality and it has a solid feel to it. Gave great performance the first time out of its plastic blade cover.
Very satisfying to machete things. Blackberries. I’ll probably never win this battle, but I work on it every year. When the going gets rough, I appreciate having a dangerous implement nearby to swing into the unforgiving earth that is my yard, or to just pick up to establish dominance when strangers walk by. It’s the perfect size for small gardening projects or larger, futile ones like blackberries.