How Blacksmiths make Sugarcane Machetes
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Blacksmiths making specialised machetes for processing sugarcane. We found this blacksmith shop at a mountain village called Patag. Sugarcane farming is the primary industry on Negros Island in the Philippines. Around Bacolod City you will see many trucks loaded up with tons of these sweet tasty plants :-)
Sugarcane machetes or 'cane knives' as they are often known, can be very heavy weighing up to 1.6kg, the long handle allows the user to swing the machete with 2 hands. Often a cane knife has a hook shape on the blunt side of the tip, this is useful for pulling upwards on the sugarcane plants after they are cut from the ground. See the footage at 8:38 of cane knives with the hook, this variety of cane knife is usually the lighter "in field" variety.
The cane knives you see being made in this video are more useful for chopping up and packing of the harvest once it's off the ground. They are fantastically crafted chopping tools, it was awesome to see Mr JJ hammering the pins into his high quality handles. Once the tang is forcefully bolted to the steel tubing, the machete almost becomes one single piece of steel. It was also particularly special to see Mr JJ branding his work with the letters JJ.
If you ever get the chance to visit Bacolod, make sure you try sugarcane juice, it's absolutely succulent. I was lucky to taste pure sugarcane juice in Bacolod city, diabetics beware it's 10 times sweeter than orange juice :-D
The name of this blacksmith shop is JJ Pandayan, pandayan is the Filipino word for blacksmith.
TIME STAMPS
1:55 Making a wooden handle
2:45 Hole punching steel
4:31 Bolting the tang
5:55 Cutting the tubes
6:19 Branding the JJ letters
8:25 Visiting a cane farm
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I love Filipinos! Real men with real skills doing real work.
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no need to exchange a single word. these gentlemen know exactly what needs to be done.
We used these all the time in Louisiana, and not just for sugarcane. The weighted and and square tip make cane knives perfect for clearing fence lines and cutting brush that's close to a wall.
Filipinos are great people!!
They were wearing me out with those large hammers! Good vid.
I got tendonitis just watching him swing that monster.
i love this kind of video, i remember something similar when i was a young boy....
Welcome Francesco, glad we could take you back! Check out our whole machete playlist, it totals almost one hour of this type of action!!!
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Trivia: 1 ft. of sugarcane costs 50 cents back in the day. You can find them in almost all sari-sari stores. These were like our candies when we were kids. It's so good! I miss these.
Dude, this video's awesome. As always, thanks for sharing.
Very interesting to watch & shows how much had work goes in to a blade being made.
Nice usable tool. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! I got a Filipino bolo (machete) in Cebu province, but it is a modern manufacture. Great seeing handmade forged blades ;)
Good tool to cut Kane by hand. Good on them. Awesome video mate.
love the videos. crazy how primitive there ways are.
IntheWoodsWithAtwood their**
Seeing these guys use the handmade charcoal on their forge reminded me of Haiti .
For your interest they buy that charcoal from another business nearby. I believe the JJ Blacksmith shop uses about 2-3 sacks of it daily ;-)
Patag is also a place for tourist to visit where there are resorts and a waterfalls and a good mountain trek place.
Espading or spading is its name
Awesome work! Thanks for sharing.
Damn huge machetes, here in Central America we do some similar machetes.
I really like all your videos .
Good job,
Thank you for searing video
Great stuff guys! This looks so similar to one I visited but far across back in Indonesia (different style blades though of course). Great video!
wow thought more people would be here
take a tour in batangas..have a glimpse on how they make balisong...
Interesting!
Keep up the great job! :)
Beautiful video ❤️
As we were watching the video the wife noticed that the dialect they were speaking was Ilongo. My wife is from that region. So I was wondering what part of the Philippines this was filmed in. We are still there now near Iloilo. Also cool Travis did the spot for you. While you were there did you get a new machete? I'm getting a couple of custom blades done while I'm here myself. Sorry if I rambled just excited about being back at the wife's family home. God bless and stay safe.
And enjoy your holiday, interesting to know someone is hearing the Ilongo speak!
are there bisaya people in bacolod? because i'm a bisaya
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There’s probably a small minority. The closer you get to Negros Oriental or The eastern part of Negros Occidental, the more likely you will find Bisaya/Cebuano speakers. Towns like Calatrava and Cadiz are bilingual in Hiligaynon and Cebuano.
Buenos machetes, excelente trabajo artesanal.
De seguro.
How would i order a custom 1 inch diameter socket giant machete?
Вітаю! Чи майстри гартують ці мачете? Дякую!
Parabéns ..+ um inscrito e + um like
These guys are amazing to watch, wow how well they work together is awesome. Loved the video .
Hey Wayne. Yes very true, it's all heads down and thumbs up!
The "larit" machete, that thing is heavy as fuck, it's like a battle sword. Where is this place do blacksmith work? Do they customize bolos too?
The directions to the blacksmith shop are in the description of this video! Enjoy :)
very nice
Cool !!!
Parabéns trabalho muito nobre
Interesting video
im used to dis machetes not so heavy at all but will put a banana plant in one stroke
Cute snake.
pang saksak sa tubo.
The Nagas of north east India use a very similar machete called dao. They were formerly head hunters.
There lucky back in my day we had to use stone axes and knifes to cut sugar cane
Buat tungku apinya itu gimana ya
That's one mean machete.
I find it interesting how they harden on the blade edge and skip the tempering .
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They dont...
Hardening and tempering is done both in one heating.
Hardening is done by only the edge in the water, so the heat in the rest of the blade is still there and will after a while heat up the edge a second time.
The smith watch the colour and and do some last final prep, then you see him cool the whole blade down.
I have seen swedish axe smiths treat quality handforged axe heads the exact same way.
A lot of the steel used by Filipino blacksmiths are old leaf springs so the steel has also been through heat treatment in the past ★★★
Stay tuned guys, we have 4 new blacksmith videos coming between March to April 2017. First instalment on the 10th of March is "How Blacksmiths make Swords and Survival Knives in Thailand." ★★★
As another commented, they are quenching and tempering in one shot. In this case, it is almost like "chance hardening", which is based on experience. In the video, we cannot see the steel color (heat or temper color) due to lighting. I worked with an old Thai smith. He would put a thin wash of mud on the blade, presumably to prevent oxidation or decarburization during the heat treating cycle. Ir was some sort of "magic mud" from aways up the road :).
He heated the cutting edge red hot for about 5/8" and quenched the whole blade, spine first, but only for a second or two. Then he returned it to the heat and wiped it with a rag so he could then see the temper color creeping from the thick side toward the thin edge. He would dab the wet rag on the blade edge occasionally to ensure a proper temper color and an even temper along the blade. By never letting the blade cool fully between hardening and tempering, he avoided excessive stress that could shatter the blade.
These cane blades are not as hard as some but intended for durability. It has nothing to do with any previous heat treatment, which is long gone from forging.
Bush Channel you should check out GlenGSTongs, he too is in Thailand. his forging is very clean and his products are very nice
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Mate this is so interesting, thanks for putting it up. Just a query, forgive me if I'm being rude, but why do we see you wearing the hard hat while travelling? In a previous video in the slippery jungle I thought, yeah fair enough wouldn't be hard to come a gutsa, and a long way from modern medical facilities, but you're wearing it at the sugar cane farm also. Are the hospitals that bad that you don't want to take any chances or did you have a close call once? Actually, now that I think about it I'm guessing you just got off a bicycle or scooter (didn't occur to me because it is a climbing helmet design), that'd be the main way to get around over there I guess. I'm that way with my bike helmet, can't be bothered taking it off for short jaunts off the bike.
Hey Bro, yes you guessed it exactly. The motorbike I rode there is parked just behind the camera by about 30 metres.
+Bush Channel ha ha, of course, the one helmet would have to multitask while travelling. I was worried you might be epileptic and I had put my foot in it! I've never been out of the country, well Tasmania, but checking out the local craftspeople going about their business and buying their stuff seems like a great thing to do.
If one was restricted to a single state, Tasmania is one of the best places to be! Fantastic wilderness!
+Bush Channel Sorry, I meant Tasmania is the only place I have travelled "overseas" to, I live on the mainland, but yes it is indeed beautiful.
+Bush Channel ANNy
6:55, he tempered the edges ?
He also said" If someone wants to take it at a good price, sell it because the price in the city is low right now."
That's an unusual looking sugarcane machete to me ( they call it sanggot ).
Hey Marcosa, I've heard a few interpretations of what he was saying, yours is the most detailed yet!
No probs. I speak 3 Filipino dialects.
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im from bacolod. locals call it "espading". that's not a panabas or sanggot. sanggot is not even a foot long while you wont hear the word panabas in the whole island. theres a bigger version of this maybe twice bigger and called "tabas". that's the real badass machete.
I want one
I been looking for this type of machete in ebay and amazon. No luck so far.
These look very like naga daos of north east India.
Where was this made
South middle of the Philippines.
Good to see that the woodprix has new instructions to save my money and energy to build it.
what is the size and how much weight of this machete??
Hello. Check out our video “Machete Knife Load out & review”. This topic is covered in detail with our full collection laid out.
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You can go to woodprix if you would like to make it yourself guys.
Samurai sword can they make that blade???
Hello there, it depends on your definition of a Samurai sword. They're using a completely different type of steel to an authentic Samurai sword.
Great skills by people who are always STANDING UP to government dictatorship and that's why they can preserve their skills. Unlike most cowardly Westerners who bow to government dictatorship like sheep and loose most of their skills...
sepp heinz What even? These men live in near poverty, their government has no care for them. Speak for wherever you're from, not for where I live, it's one of my rights if I so find the necessity to revolt and revolutionize. Our blacksmithing skills are fairly well preserved, including those adopted from other cultures, just look at Man At Arms Reforged, there's multiple forging techniques there.
hey,that's bisaya language? where is this place,i'm a bisaya
Persian Gulf Baghdad ilonggo
I expected machetes made of sugarcane, I am disappoint.
I've got bad news for you... unfortunately U will never see that, plant fibers are too weak. U have now been enlightened.
@@Bushchannel I imagine giving them a ring pommel to make it feel complete
the metal ahndles threw me off...
wonder if thats just for anti weather issues?
Like to prevent rot in the humid jungle.
cause frankly that would make the machete more durible and less vulnerable to humidity..long as it doesnt rust away.
Bobbert Bobby I've seen similar machetes from Vietnam, over there they simply roll the tang into a tube for the handle
that is called TABAS it is used to cut bundles of sugarcanes
adriano dodero panabas
those could do some damage
I checked a lot of woodworking handbooks. Those from woodprix are the best.
in Guyana they look divrent they also has the as kill kunny
Real blacksmiths wear flip flops too
If a zombie apocalypse ever happens
ESPADING
Hey, those are jobs for rich people, why aren't they out there?
hope they use a safety gear .
If thin air counts as safety gear, yes they're using it :)
Bush Channel They got a lot of safety gear! Hammers have handles, they are wood so they don't get hot. They have a stationary anvil,not beat hot metal between two hammer heads . The fire stays in one place ,where they put it,no less! They got pants on,so no unfortunate but burns or hits! Pretty damn safe smithy in my opinion! Hell they all seemed to have all their fingers also! Damn good safety features!
They put their PPE on after the white guy with a camera leaves
And I thought I was a hard worker
Did travis used to be a girl? He has a voice like a woman body builder
esto no in machete we otra cosa
slick hardknock es un machete cañero, para cortar caña de azúcar
bof, je m'attendais à mieux niveau qualité de fabrication.
là j'ai l'impression de voir une bricole faite à la vas-vite ... dommage !
, I want to bite one machete
Metal handle on a machete.........yikes!!