Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Suurpmil has it for me. We called our issue machettes, PARANGS, GOLLOCKS or PANGAS. They were all the same. Some had wood handle grips while others had a sort of compressed dark red fibre stuff. Quite useful bits of kit and the blokes used to keep them pretty sharp. So sharp that when opening a coconut, it spouted milk out and the next hack he took, his hand slid down the blade opening up his fingers. Good job for field dressings..........
Not a job for the inexperienced opening coconuts with a machete, the residents of those regions seem to do it unerringly, but I suspect quite a few kiddies lost their left thumbs in the learning process.