Thought I would post, for redemption’s sake, some new and improved videos of the machete harvest.  One is a close up of the cut and the other is a longer version of a series of cuts to give you an idea how the harvest operates:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBh93BEtU34]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggRr9hGthY]