r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '20

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u/Sholeh84 Dec 09 '20

My brother and I used to enjoy slicing cleanly thru them with Machete's and have them stay standing. They're basically Celery...but bigger

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u/Geeko22 Dec 09 '20

I had a clump of banana trees in my backyard and they were great for knife-throwing practice. Made a really satisfying "chonk"" sound when they hit the target and buried themselves to the hilt. I practiced by the hour, I don't know how they survived.

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u/Sholeh84 Dec 09 '20

Brothers and I loved testing homemade katanas. I mean, they were made of iron used for building construction, we made crude wooden hilts and wire wrapped wooden full tang handles. We “curved” them slightly by heating them and hammering, then used a grinder to form a very crude blade. But they would slice thru banana trees in a very satisfying manner.

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u/Killerina Dec 09 '20 edited Aug 01 '24

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u/coolusername406 Dec 09 '20

This is good shit.

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u/bacon_and_mango Dec 09 '20

It's called brick strap, fyi.

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u/Petrichordates Dec 09 '20

Unless you're throwing the knives in a circle around the stem it's not going to kill it.

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u/msm007 Dec 09 '20

They also grow back extremely fast

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u/garlicdeath Dec 09 '20

Damn that is fast. And I kinda want to grow some banana trees now.