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Gerber 22-41576 Gator Machete with Sheath

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Gerber 22-41576 Gator Machete with Sheath

(46 customer reviews)

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Features

Tactile rubber grip
Fine edge and saw blade
Riveted, nylon sheath included
Convenient size of 25-inches in length at only 1-pound
Made from rugged black oxide coated steel

Description

Gerber Gator Machete sports a 15" blade. Whack! Clear foliage with a single swipe! Machete also doubles as a saw. Great for clearing shooting lanes. Quality: Tough, black oxide-coated steel blade is 15", fine razor's edge with "toothy" serrated saw on top; Gator sure-grip handle; 25" overall, weighs 1 lb.; Lanyard hole; Black 400-denier heavy nylon sheath with belt loop. China. Gerber Machete with Sheath

Product Details

Product Length:	0.0 inches
Product Width:	0.0 inches
Product Height:	0.0 inches
Product Weight:	2.5 pounds
Package Length:	28.3 inches
Package Width:	7.3 inches
Package Height:	2.0 inches
Package Weight:	2.0 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 46 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.0

( 46 customer reviews )
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124 of 129 found the following review helpful:

Nice Looking JUNK! Feb 19, 2009 By Gary Diana "Warty"
I will admit that this is a great looking machete. At first glance you would think from a company like Gerber, it would also be high quality as well. Guess again, there blade is less than a quarter tang. This means you have 2 inches of metal in the handle trying to keep the rest of the 18 inch blade from snapping off or coming loose when you swing it at the brush you are clearing. The handle feels great in your hand but it is only a handle, it doesn't support the blade. To get an idea of how much tang you have, look at the picture of the machete on this site with the blue background and the ruler in it that I posted. In this picture you can clearly see why swinging this "machete" too hard may be hazardous to you and those around you. It is held in the handle by a single bolt with the bottom bolt only holding tension in a slot in the bottom of the tang of the blade. The entire tang, clearly shown in my picture, is only 2 1/2 inches long.

I sure expected a lot more from a company with the reputation Gerber has and this has made me rethink a lot of future purchases from them. Go to the hardware store and get one of their $8.00 surplus machetes. It will serve you a lot better than this piece of junk will. Glad I took it apart before I had to depend on it in the brush.

63 of 63 found the following review helpful:

Broken Handle, Bent Blade, Dangerous Tool Mar 13, 2009 By ']['ennessee ']['ony
I thought for the price, this Gerber Machete was either too good to be true, or a steal. It's both, but now that the handle is starting to fall apart, and I've disassembled it to see why, I now say it's a dangerous tool to use.

There is already a customer image showing it disassembled. Look carefully. The tang only goes into the handle a short distance. This has allowed the blade to flex enough to break the front part of my handle, and the handle now is bent up in a V pattern rather than straight inline with the blade.

I was entirely pleased the first few hours of using this tool, nice rubber grip, sharp enough, pretty Gerber emblem laser engraved on the blade. But then the handle cracked, I noticed the blade edge was dented, and the entire blade was bent about midway.

I've sharpened it on a grinding wheel, and wow, it's a very soft metal, the lightest touch to the wheel takes off a lot of metal!!! It was then I took the handle off and to my dismay/horror, the tang is really really short. There is NO EXCUSE for not having a thin bit of metal running the entire length of the handle.

I still will use it for extremely light duty work, but it's far too dangerous for serious brush clearing, as I'm quite certain the blade will one day fly off into the distance.

As for the soft metal, the bend in the blade, and the lack of edge holding ability, maybe it's safer than a hard blade that will crack or break, I don't know. The saw back is for decoration in my opinion, I've not used it, as I like to put a little weight on the back side of my hand saws, and, well, there's a blade on the back of this one. :)

Straight out of the box, I'd have given this a 5-star for looks. Sadly, in use, it disappoints, and is a real hazard to the user and bystanders.

If only they'd make the tang full or 3/4 length....I can deal with having to sharpen it frequently.

48 of 48 found the following review helpful:

Not what it cuts out to be Apr 01, 2008 By C. Bryan "lungwad"
I ordered this machette to blaze trees for a property paint line. However right ofter receiving it, I used it to trim a small bush next to my driveway. Although it is as sharp as a knife the metal edge bent easily, and now it is serrated and useless just from cutting < 1/4 inch stems for less than 5 min. I am not sure what type of brush it will cut without getting damaged.

16 of 16 found the following review helpful:

Gerber machete- NOT up to par Jun 04, 2008 By Karl S. Phillips
I own and love many Gerber Products. This Machete is not one of them.
The blade bent and cracked on the first swing at some 1/4"-1/2" thick
brush. This Item not worthy of the Gerber name.

Scott Phillips
Franktown Colorado

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

No quality Dec 17, 2008 By Troy T. Ammons
Went out to clear a thicket. First few swipes the cuting edge bent in 2 places. This is not a tempered steel blade.
Saw it not that sharp either.

If I could give it 1/10 of a star I would do that.
The case is nice, the handle is nice, but the steel inthe blade is the worst.

Gerber you can do better than this.

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