School me on machetes

[MillCreek]

Definitely get the pruners, get one with aluminum handles. Blackberries are a pain to cut with a machete- they are springy, grow in all sorts of directions so it hard to get a good angle cut on them with a knife edge, and you can grab the bastards with the pruners.  Way less energy expended.

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This has been exactly my experience when trying to eradicate a stand of Himalayan blackberry bushes with a machete.  It is the bounciness that gets you, at least until you can start to reach the stems at the root point.

[Perd Hapley]

[Northwoods]

Make sure you bring a knife and fork with you. 


That way you can eat anything you kill there, 'cause it sure sounds like getting a deer out is going to be a cast-iron female dog.

Getting out isn't the problem.  Mostly downhill.  It's getting up to where I can find the deer that's going to be the problem.  Worst case I can just roll the deer back to the lake shore.

[Northwoods]

Kinda hard to bring the latter on the kayak (nevermind the rules against such devices).  The former, while satisfying, would probably get me unwanted attention from the likes of Boomhauers former colleagues.

[Perd Hapley]

Kinda hard to bring the latter on the kayak

Oh, good point. If you had a latter, you could just climb right over the brambles.