Ten Green Coconuts

This video is based on a simple concept, machetes and green coconuts. Most people in the Northern Hemisphere think that coconut water comes neatly packaged in sterile boxes. Reality is somewhat harsher.

If the splitting of green coconuts with machetes makes you feel uneasy or you have some moral objection to the eating of green coconuts or the splitting of green coconuts with machetes then please look away. These green coconuts were raised for human consumption and splitting them wide open with sharp steel machetes is simply a daily reality of life in the tropics.

Please dont search for any deeper meaning or allegory in this video. It is not a commentary on modern American liberalism. It really is just a simple video about green coconuts, machetes, and the people who love them.

Machetes in order of appearance

#1. 14 inch Tramontina Bolo

#2. 14 inch Tramontina Bolo

#3. 16 inch Latin Pattern Tramontina

#4. 14 inch Tramontina Bolo

#5. 12 inch Ontario CT1

#6. Condor Puerto Rican Machete (I had just received this one as a gift)

#7. I put the Cold Steel Bushman in this video to give some form of comparison between a seven inch knife and a machete. The Job was finished with a 13 Inch SAICO.

#8. 13 Inch SAICO Heavy Machete (SAICO is a Brazilian brand)

#9. 20 Inch Chies Machete

#10. 14 inch Modified Tramontina Golok of my own design

The Giant Toad is commonly called a Sapo Boi or Bull Toad. This one lives in our yard and happened to show up while we were filming. Hes so ugly even the Pit Bull leaves him alone.

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[JonALewis]

So what are your preferences? Which one(s) do you like more or which one's perform better than the rest?

[Colhane]

@JonALewis The one I keep on top of the fridge is the 14 inch Tramontina Bolo. It has been my kitchen machete since 1999.

[Shamsulrosunally]

I watch this video once a month. The sound of a machete embedding itself in wood is like Beethoven to my ears. I also watch your Tramontina modification video a little too often as well. I bought myself one and spend my evenings sharpening it like yours. It's a shame I live in the suburbs :-) Desperate to test it out in the real jungle.

[Colhane]

@Shamsulrosunally I recently remarked about the three things that make a machete the best machete in the world. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. It is nice to love machetes and live in machete country.

[TheSuperOlioliolioli]

In Puerto Rico every house has a machete, I live there.

[Colhane]

@TheSuperOlioliolioli What kitchen is complete without a machete? My 14 inch Tramontina Bolo is on top of our refrigerator.

[dcox01]

The deeper meaning of this video to me is.....Coconut Cream Pie.

[Yianden]

In France we use axes and billhooks instead of machetes.

[TheNatureVideos]

Ha, we in Puerto Rico, dont cut them straight through, we just kinda , carve them to those super market familiar shapes then cut of the top just a bit then drink

[theinfectedhunter13]

jason during thursday the 12th?

[dadinanm3]

That description is hilarious.



[pyroneph]

I watch this video again and again. Idk why, but it's very interesting...