>>1478402Sure we do but we completely lack all the other type of vegetation that would require a machete to cut through. See, we do have our own "machete", a billhook or vesuri, as they are called here. Picture related is the archetypical forest around here, and as you might see, there really isn't anything you would need to cut down with a machete, and the stuff you might want to cut down, is better handled with a saw or an axe.
Now that you mentioned three inch diameter fairly soft wood, when I was in infantry, I did use a billhook to cut down a ton of rowan/mountain ash, willow and stuff like that. Piss easy to build a camouflage dome over a firing position and as they are pretty worthless for any land owners be it state land or private, you can use it pretty freely. A billhook, willow, steel wire and moss and voila, you have an UAV proof firing position.
>I know because we were shown footage of our position from one exercise where the opfor tried to hunt us down with drones 