I'm gonna add another "vote" for a machete - something I have never seen from Busse/SR/SY.

This would be a real user machete and it has to be SY, the last bastion of Res-C.

15-18" blade (not longer for closer grown veg)
3/16" thickness or whatever it takes to be light but still strong.
5" old-fashioned SR style Res-C handle. Not a mudder.

blade profile like Condor El Salvador, or possibly Jungle Sabre.

But I also like a couple other suggestions - Bolo, and that size/ utility.

I need a good brush clearing blade, NOT a heavy chopper (Bussekin done a ton of those already).

Just my 0.02 fwiw

oh yeah, I need it before winter <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />