I found a machete in a closet

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Spring cleaning a closet. I got up on a step stool to dust the shelf and saw this long black thing. It's not something to which I can claim previous ownership. It looks to never have been used; it's still wrapped in plastic and the sheath is some sort of kevlar-like fabric. It must have been left by a previous owner. I tried looking it up on eBay and some call it a landscaping knife. Oookkkkaaayyyy....I guess if you have a jungle to landscape.

Dubious as to what to do with it. It's illegal to sell what could be considered a weapon on Marketplace. Even at a garage sale I would be skeptical as to what use anyone would put it like injuring, or worse, any people or animals. On the same shelf there was also a Tracphone card.

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Wash your prints off of it and put it back with gloves on. Your probably legal in you home, on your property.
Carrying publicly is most likely illegal due to its overall blade length. Put it in a case to do that. An obvious
Call to the Sheriff, speak with him. Find out your legal rights. Some people get really weird with large knives.

It's the type of tool used to down large brush, make paths ways thru timbers, Takeing down Cat-tails, sewer grass
that sort of stuff. If you have none you have little excuse for others to see you with it. I would store it behind a
locked closet door myself. I have a Soldiers saber locked up. Its a collection thing for me.

If you find a name on it you can easily value it. I think the plastic handle would say cheap. If Hard wood, better quality.
 
It most likely will do a satisfactory job hacking stuff up. ... :coffee: ... :ROFLMAO: ...
Go ahead and price it on Amazon. It would appear to be under $20 + shipping?
It would hack off small limbs things like that. Shut the DA up, that sort of stuff!

I wouldn't give it to a Kill, Kill, you're our man fellow though. I have one stuck in a tree stump, 25 years ago.
I couldn't get it back out easily so just left it there. When I built the new garage the stump was dug out
with a back hoe and the old rusted thing went with it.
 
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I just checked on facebook marketplace and there are lots of Machetes and other various knives for sale. However I don't think you would get much for an El Cheapo Made in China one.

I have one in my Utility shed that I picked up at an Army/Navy surplus store years ago. But I don't have much use for it. As far as a weapon goes I'd prefer a baseball bat.
 
I just looked at mine. It says Ontario Knife US on the blade and the scabbard has a little thingy on it that use can use to sharpen the blade. It has an 18 inch blade and the date on the scabbard is 1991.
 
debodun said:
Spring cleaning a closet. I got up on a step stool to dust the shelf and saw this long black thing. It's not something to which I can claim previous ownership. It looks to never have been used; it's still wrapped in plastic and the sheath is some sort of kevlar-like fabric. It must have been left by a previous owner. I tried looking it up on eBay and some call it a landscaping knife. Oookkkkaaayyyy....I guess if you have a jungle to landscape.

Dubious as to what to do with it. It's illegal to sell what could be considered a weapon on Marketplace. Even at a garage sale I would be skeptical as to what use anyone would put it like injuring, or worse, any people or animals. On the same shelf there was also a Tracphone card.

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I once bought one as part of our tool array for managing thick weeds and small-stemmed brush on our property. I seem to remember I got it at a general hardware or building supply outlet. When I went up to the till to pay for it and whatever else I was buying, there was a woman ahead of me who was just paying for her things. She looked at the machete... and me, and with a troubled face she said, "What are you going to do with that?"

But in my neighborhood, this isn't an unusual or threatening tool. I'd feel confident selling it at a flea market or garage sale. We do keep up on the local & regional news, and people in my region are not using machetes or knives to harm anybody.
 
They don't cost much and are useful for unwanted bushes, etc. Dangerous though, just like power tools. Years ago I used one to cut the thick roots of English ivy, which was choking some old growth trees behind where I lived.
 
Jason will be back for it and he wonā€™t be happy if itā€™s not where he left it.
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Seriously, itā€™s just a knife/tool and itā€™s only dangerous in the wrong hands.

I would bide my time until I found a safe/discreet way to dispose of it.
 

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