Was enjoying my thanksgiving weekend in the deep forest...The trees so thick you have to make a hole.  I've had my dog father LE for quite awhile and decided to take her out for a trial.  Was clipping off 1/2" dead pine branches and this happened and NO!!  There wasn't any thing in the branch,  just very dead old pine branches no thicker than 1/2".  Made me very sad  

  but I had no choice....I kept on using it to get through the dense bush. 
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As you can see a big chunck of the blade just popped out, half the size of a dime and only half the thickness of the blade.   The other side almost looks undamaged.
Funny, the metal inside almost reminds me of parkerized metal.
Anyone had this happen???