Machete

[scott]

I scored a new long blade

[Tom109]

Nice!

[scott]

The stamping reads

USN
. MK-2
LEGITIMUS
COLLINS & CO
. 1944

[SafeAirOne]

That's pretty cool! Makes you wonder if it's ever slashed any jungle in the Pacific.

Got many a blister on my hand smashing brush as a kid using a similar military surplus store machete. Not sure about that wood handle, but the plastic handle on later versions was hard on bare hands.

[badvibes]

That's pretty cool! Makes you wonder if it's ever slashed any jungle in the Pacific.

The Navajo are a People with a long history of defending their homelands. They played a significant role serving in the military during WWII. Could be just coincidence that machete was found in a truck that spent the majority of its 53 years on the Navajo reservation. But it does open up some interesting possibilities...

[loose gravel]

Mark, I got blisters too! LOL!

[scott]

The Navajo are a People with a long history of defending their homelands. They played a significant role serving in the military during WWII. Could be just coincidence that machete was found in a truck that spent the majority of its 53 years on the Navajo reservation. But it does open up some interesting possibilities...

And the truck came with a small USMC seal affixed to a rear window

[meatblanket]

[Yorker]

The first surveying firm I worked for back in 1998 had a pile of those they'd used since the 1960s. The former owner had bought them in bulk somewhere along the line.

[scott]

It's weird...there are machete forums out there. One talks about Collins & Co. Some are stamped with USN and some just US. Ones made specifically for Marines are stamped with 191. There are length variations as well as different handles.

Some are stamp with the text read from the handle and others are 180 degrees. And the hammers in the logo aren't all the same.

[Paul D]

Got mine at Harbor Freight. It's everything you'd expect of a $5 machete.

[72Rover]

Had to go check out my machete. Though the first bit of kit that went into the Rover from new, it is now relegated to hacking and slashing in the garden. Made by the Ontario Knife Co. of Franklintown, NY, the blade is simply stamped "US". From Wiki: "Ontario Knife Company is most well known as a supplier of military knives. Over the years, they have supplied the US military with products such as the M7 bayonet, the USAF Survival Knife, the M1942 Machete, the Navy MK3 MOD 0 diving/survival knife, the M9 bayonet, and most recently, the USMC OKC-3S Bayonet."

[scott]

the visible folds in the steel has me thinking this wasn't stamped out of sheet metal

[series guy]

Mine must be the same as Sandy's.

[50 wulf]

Reminds me of carrying machetes through the woods as a boy, cutting trails. We felt like explorers and kings of the earth at the same time.

Speaking of knives, this is one I lusted after for years and just recently got. The Puma White Hunter. My dad loved Puma knives, but never owned this particular one.
This one's from 1967.