Even Suburbanites Need a Machete

Although popularly thought of as jungle hacking tools, machetes come in very handy around the house. I use mine to chop my kitchen and garden waste into little pieces so it composts rapidly. My evergreen bushes out front grow new shoots in the summer, and to keep the bushes looking I good I get rid of the uneven shoots with my machete. A vine is growing through some of my bushes, and the machete took care of that too. I make stakes out of branches and saplings from the backyard for tomato trellis stakes and bean poles.

The Infamous Machete

In most of the world, a machete-wielding man would not even raise an eyebrow. Unfortunately, machetes have a more sinister reputation in the US. Most people think of violence when you mention a machete, and although classified as an agricultural tool by most governments, it always pays to be circumspect in shipping or carrying a machete. Whenever called upon to identify the contents of our packages, we try to use the harmless sounding "Edge Tools" as opposed to "Machetes."