A good friend and i have long been discussing testing a Hultafors HVK knife to the max, the agreement being that i try and destroy the knife and he will send me a new one from Norway to compensate for the loss of tool.
So what we did, rather than go through a series of tests that are not from the real world as you will see on a well known You Tube channel was to gather suggestions from a number of different people on the forum, by asking members to suggest "real world" tests that we could put the knife through, the tests we agreed upon were :
- Make fuzz sticks before and after the tests
- Drill wood with the tip
- Prying wood
- Digging (earth)
- Battoning knotted hardwood's
- Take down a small tree with it
- Opening metal food containers
- How much damage a ferro rod could do to cutting edge
- Cutting wire
- Bone cutting? The small kind, as one would expect to encounter 95% of the time.
- Pound it tip-first into a tree (spine upright and sideways) at ankle height and step on it
- Make fuzz sticks before and after the tests
The results of the test can been seen in the following video series;
All i will say is about the knife here, is i was mightily impressed by it, you will have to watch the video's to see how it performed in each test, so go grab a cuppa and a biccie, make yourself comfortable and enjoy.
