I needs some help. I got a hatchet recently. It was only a $50 thing so nothing super fancy, but it seemed like a good enough quality one. The head started coming loose so I re-hung it with a new wooden wedge and a new barrel wedge, and then I soaked it in mineral oil for a few days just to be sure. And then when I used it, the barrel wedge started popping out and the head got loose again.
I added a second wedge to the front of the axe head at an angle, and I think I must have been trying to split wood that was way too hard, but I'm worried that it's going to loosen up on me again and I'm running out of options. Should I try soaking it in linseed oil since, hypothetically, it will harden up eventually and not get squeezed out like the mineral oil?
Can't answer yer question, OP, but what does everyone think of th Hultafors Hultan hatchet? I needs a new hatchet, and she seems pretty decent from what I read online. Frick Gransfors Bruks for cucking out to the total globohomo; I will never give them a cent.
>Frick Gransfors Bruks for cucking out to the total globohomo; I will never give them a cent.
what'd they do?
they have a black blacksmith now, you can tell by the initials they put into the axe (forgot which one was the black dude). So there is like one ina ten chance you get the axe by him
haven't they had a brown guy for years?
i dunno but i read a swiss guy's post on pol about him finding out about this and reeeeeee nonstop
me dumbdumb
I bought an axe off them years ago and looked up the smith and it was some poo named Khabib or something.
I sent that fricking axe back.
>Gränsfors Bruk was already working on many of the issues covered in the 17 goals and 169 associated targets well before Agenda 2030 became a concept, but we now have a better structure and a clear objective for our continued work in the form of the defined goals.
>Using Agenda 2030 as a basis, we have therefore tried to find out how well Gränsfors Bruk fulfils these goals within each part of the business and tried to find out what more we as a company can do in order to drive these issues forward.
https://www.gransforsbruk.com/en/corporate-responsibility/
>Gränsfors Bruk operates in a male-dominated industry and we therefore want to drive its development towards a more even gender balance. This means we are actively trying to employ both men and women at all levels of the business.
>We also believe that diversity enriches and we are therefore working actively on initiatives such as offering summer jobs to local young people, thereby contributing to the development of sparsely populated areas and offering placements to new arrivals, disabled people or other people who are often disconnected from the labour market.
You're paying a premium so that they can feel good about themselves giving jobs to gay/trans immigrant disabled youths, and not to the historical and ancestral makers of the axe.
>>Gränsfors Bruk operates in a male-dominated industry
I fricking wonder why. How many natural-born females want to swing axes for fun?
There's some. Not many.
Bingo! Gransfors are fricking cucks. Sad, but simple as.
Anon, the other anons said it best... gransfors bruks is a fricking bullshit company. Once amazing is now just a fricking cultural marxist bullshit. Don't support that shit. Hultafors is the God now.
I love how all the replies basically boil down to "they have a black employee now"
lmao
No homosexual, they're basically World Economic Forum shills with the "Agenda 2030" bullshit.
Only one of the replies said that, you commie homosexual.
>I love how all the replies
>how all the replies
>all the replies
>all
>literally 1 reply out of 6
Ask me how I know you are female, a shitskin, or a combo of the two
Do you have the reading comprehension of a kindergartener or is "basically boil down to" just not an order of words you understand?
1 reply about Black
everything else about agenda 2030
but it still boils down to the first thing?
Im pretty keen to get one. 8ve got an elkelund and it is excellent. Tossing up between h7ktan and the gransfors wildlife hatchet. Not sure yet.
Ok. I've just read this thread properly. Gransfors cuks can eat all the ass they can find. Hultaros only.
Bingo. Frick GB and their bullshit.
Glad I bought my GB years ago then. Fricking shame
same. a big felling ax, would've been nice to get a hatchet too but fug giving them money now. ESG is a scam.
>he should have bought a tomahawk
you should have bought a tomahawk
Sounds fricked, you should probably replace the axe handle. This may help you.
That does seem quite helpful, although I'm probably best off just looking for a vintage hatchet at an estate sale or garage sale. My axe came from Amazon which means it's probably chinese, and if I'm going to replace the entire handle I might as well start with a better quality axe head.
I guess this should be a valuable lesson that looks can be deceiving and that just because an axe looks good and costs $50 doesn't mean I should expect it to hold up. I'll try soaking it in linseed oil to see if that improves it at all but I probably should be looking for a better axe / hatchet as my long term solution.
Just get an estwing. It will be slightly heavier overall but can take a beating
I have one of those and it sucks! It's far too heavy for its size, the handle is slick and it's dull af. I went with a fiskars hatchet instead.
t. fiskars employee
you know you can put sandpaper on the estwing and rub the slick coating off right. it's grippy leather underneath.
>It's far too heavy for its size, the handle is slick and it's dull af.
Same. I've resorted to using mine as a hammer when splitting wood with my Mora knife. Currently shopping for something better.
You use an axe... An axe, to hammer a small knife through wood to split it?
r u srs?
I got this before I got
>"heavy duty" nylon sheath
>solid "america steel"
>blue shock reduction grip ®
lol
Just wants to say frick GB again.
I have a question for you folks... I wouldn't mind getting into more precision axes (think hultaphors carpenters axes)... what's the difference between a straight handle (like the stalberg) vs curved??
frick them for being cucks
OP here. Today I bough some linseed oil and I'm giving the whole axe a soak in it. Here's hoping that keeps the wedges tight. I don't think superglue around the barrel wedge will do anything but I might give that or some 2-part epoxy a shot too once the linseed oil dries. I think the real important thing is making sure that the barrel wedge can't wiggle at all from vibrations, because as soon as it loosened up last time it just made the whole thing get worse and worse very quickly.
hatchets are the ultimate LARP tool. everyone getting into bushcraft buys one because they look cool and seem useful in theory, but they actually just suck at every task. need an axe? bring an axe. don't need an axe? a knife will do the job.
>hatchet unnecessary
For me it's worth it. It chops firewood, doubles as a hammer and is also my best weapon of last resort if it should come to that. It's just 3 pounds. I'll save weight elsewhere.
Ditto.
Have an updoot
PrepHole is a Fiskars board
If fiskars had wood handles they would OWN bushcraft and PrepHole . Fact.
I feel that wooden handles give an advantage for a once-in-a-15year eventuality, whereas Fiskars style one-piece composite handles trade that for a different once-in-a-15year eventuality. Both are good, but I prefer the Fiskars slightly.
eh....
Their plastic handles are stronger than wood.
People just hear plastic and recoil. Those things are tried and proven.
t. Overstruck multiple times full force with their splitting maul outside at 2°c.
Looks good; so much better than that homosexual plastic. Would be nice if the wood was offered for their other tools.
Truth, Fiskars axes are so strong that they withstand years and years of abuse and neglect by conscripts (read: morons who have to be taught to tie their shoelaces). Motonet (hardware store chain in Finland) gives a 50 year warranty for the Fiskars axes they are selling.
>Motonet (hardware store chain in Finland) gives a 50 year warranty for the Fiskars axes they are selling.
kek that's awesome
What does the swing on a Fiskars axe feel like compared to a more conventional axe, where all the metal is in the axe head? The Norden N10 looks like it might be a good aspirational item for when I am ready for something a little bigger and more expensive than my Ned Foss hatchet.
More vibration on impact, and the axe feels longer than it actually is. I have had all the premium brands, and I go back for my Fiskars pretty often. They are excellent tools. I've broken many wooden handles, but never a Fiskars.
Sounds great. I really like the kind of space-age-meets-middle-age look on it. I'm not really into composite handles so it looks like a good happy medium.
I'll say it. You don't need an axe or a hatchet.
axes are great, for fixed activities like if you have a cabin or something
Wrong. You don't need a knife. You need an axe
Saw+knife > saw+ axe AND axe+knife
Wtf freak? Have a frickin saw, an axe or hatchet, and a frickin KNOIFE!
You don't "need" to go /out
>I'll say it. You don't need an axe or a hatchet.
What is firewood, Alex.
True.
Nobody NEEDS to be a punkass square either
hey anyone on here tried a rinaldi axe, from the tiny ones to the race axes? interested in picking one up to use along side my tasmanian pattern felling axe.
Nope, but they look aesthetic! I've been looking at some of their billhooks.
yes
rinaldi is the most underapreciated axe company
Know where to get rinaldi in canada?
Why not just use wood glue?
I used wood glue on the wooden wedge, but I'm not sure if it'll help at all with the barrel wedge because wood glue don't bond well with metal.
I found a hatchet in a house we were about to demolish. The head was loose, the handle was dry with flaking finish. I sanded it then soaked the whole handle in BLO for a week. After drying and a light sanding, the head is solidly attached and it has a nice finish.
Yeah, I just finished soaking mine in BLO. I'm gonna let it dry for a week or two before I attempt whacking anything with it, but I'm hopeful that it's going to be nice and tight after that.
Why does everyone use BLO instead of just regular linseed oil? Is it just because BLO dries faster? Because hat hardly seems worth it for covering the surface of a hand tool with literal poison. I know it wont kill you, but there is a reasonable chance it gives you cancer, or at the very least knocks off a few IQ points.
>Is it just because BLO dries faster?
It dries WAY faster
Yes, I understand, that’s basically the entire point of it. Regular linseed oil takes about a month an a half to dry, but has the added bonus of not being made of toxic metals. Nobody seems to give a shit though, i find it odd. I have 2 axes, i put linseed oil on one and use the other. Switch every 2 months or so. Axes aren’t expensive and my handles feel way nicer than ones treated with BLO, and i know they wont give me cancer. Seems like a good investment of time and money. Why dont more people do it?
I can't imagine what I'd need a hatchet for
Hatchets are not for morons who don't practice basic chop and cut safety. Neither are knives.
Yeah but i still don't see what they're good for. Saw + knife = better and lighter than hatchet. Hatchets are for combat only.
>Women and sharp objects
We'll theres your problem
Is that anime using an opinel?
if you actually went out you wouldn't need to imagine anything you moronic homosexual
I don't watch anime but I kinda want to check that one out. What is it called?
I have one of these.
Seems like it should be an ok all arounder.
Better than the estwing camping hatchet i have.
Council tool woodcraft looks like a nice hatchet/axe
is the moraxe by morakniv as good as moraknife by morakniv?
Haven't heard anything good. I wouldn't chance it.
Lol lmao.
I broke one when doing tard tests on it. I'd buy it again.
What about a tomahawk?
Is the marbles hunters axe any good?
Has anyone here tried that $12 Harbor Freight hatchet?
probably just replace the handle
or buy a new hatchet,
gb is solid but everyone hates them for their homosexualry
Husqvarna is a solid middle ground,, never had any issues with my mine
estwing is great bang for your buck. someone else posted the one i have in here and its been a solid tool for 2 years without issue.