This one seems just about perfect for companion. I'm just worried about one thing though. Will the handle unglue from the hatchet with enough time? It's a full tang hatchet that comes out the end of the handle but I wonder if I should maybe get the Hultafors Hultan instead (I guess you can always replace a wooden handle).
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Condor-Campsite-Axe-11-Hatchet--93763
Handle's Polypropylene
Hultafors Hultan
https://www.atlas-machinery.com/hultafors/hu-841701/
Looks like cheap unusable rubbish made by third world favela trannies that have never seen an axe before. The only part that's supposed to be steel is the head and an axe isn't supposed to have a "tang" roflmao.
>$150
Kek, I love to see amerimutts get absolutely shafted when it comes to European made tools. $80 in Sweden btw.
Yeah it is silly to pay import tax on euro axes, should just buy a Council Tool since they are better anyways.
Estwing makes camp axes like that and they cost about $40 and they are made in the USA.
>they are better anyways.
ROFLMAO
Just outed yourself as never used an axe seriously. swede axes have awful over thick handles that worked well with ash or birch handles but absolutely suck when made from hickory. Council gets the handles spot on, 10 mins of filing and you have an axe that will outcut any swede shit without giving you tendonitis in the process
>stinky brown muttoid has to scrape the cancerous polyurethane coating off his trash steel 100% bix nood-made """axe""" first to even make it semi usable
>meanwhile Swede axes are perfect out of the box
lol made me chuckle...euros use 1055 equivalent, council is using 1060 in most their axes, pretty much a wash. Councils premium axes are using 5160...euros premium models are using 1055 equivalent...it's not even close. I have a Woodcraft and it is the niceset axe I have ever held in my hands, everything from the head to the handle and sheath are unironically superb...it also came shaving sharp. A small forest/outdoor style Grans axe is over $200 and my $150 Woodcraft is superior in every way by a wide margin...a better comparison to the Grans would be Councils regular Hudson Bay axe...its costs $70. Not saying the Grans and Hults and whatever else aren't quality, they just aren't as grand as people make them out to be and they are very overpriced stateside.
tl;dr
Lay off inhaling polyurethane dust for a while, retard.
Post your axe actually used
Because clearly you just consoom oveepriced recycled steel junk thinking its better cos muh sweeeeeeeeedish
I AM Swedish, you stinky brown poophead mutt
Lmao hows malmo going? Not from the states myself but keep coping. Sorry to tell you Swedish axes just aint that good. So many busted gransfors and hb arvika pics. The only good swedish axes is the hb hy10 1.5kg. The rest are just mediocre to shit
How's chicongo and degroid going, garden gnome worshipping moron gay?
Lmao i can taste your illiterate tears. Like i said not from the states but keep trying boyo
The first person to bring up race is the one who has already lost the argument
So you‘re another mystery meat new world monkey? You mixed breeds are disgusting all the same to actual white people (Europeans).
>you dont like my swedish axe?
>YOU moron!!! moronRRR!!!!!
>ONLY WHITE ARYAN UBERMENSCH CAN APPRECIATE MY SWEDISH AXE SO YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!
look man i hate morons as much as the next guy but you are giving us racists a bad name. stop being a retard
Mystery meat new world monkey? The closest ive ever set foot to the american (north, south or central) continent is los angeles airport while flying from europe to new zealand lol
It took me longer than it should have to realize how they suspended the axe head. That's cool shit.
Cheers, any museum i visit i look for cool axes
>council tool
I have been looking at one of those. Some lightweight axe for strapping to pack.
Yeah sucks for us. I guess it's worth it to live in Swedenistan for axes. You'll be delighted when you are behedded by Muhammad with fine Swedish steel.
Dont mind him, council is better. Or vintage american steel. You aint missing out on shit
>subhuman calls americans mutts
every time
Council Tool also has some wood handled camp axes if you want to go that route. There is a Hudson Bay camp axe and the Flying Fox axe off the top of my head.
I'd buy an east wing one, It probably has its purpose, durability.
I've never understood this kind of tool design. A wooden handle will absorb shock much better and weight less.
>Hultafors
Overpriced like most objects desired by larping fetishist.
Carbon steel is shit for almost all outdoor applications. Condor uses it because it's cheap to get and easy to work with. Most people don't use their axes enough to justify not having a stainless.
It's quite easy to understand why corporations use polymer over wood: it's cheaper to manufacture.
>Subhuman calls an american a mutt
every time
cool story Abshir.
Stainless axes, who the fuckeven makes one?
>Search for stainless axe
>Dozens of different options appear
They are common... so you must be pretty dumb or oblivious or both.
>I live in scotland!
Ok subhuman ,thanks for the clarification.
>muh
Why would I bother explaining anything to you--you're an obvious moron. Who even uses "muh" thinking they don't sound like a complete retard... lol
As usual, the low IQ crowd with shit reading comprehension is determined to post stupid shit at every oportunity.
Read my post, again, than feel bad about saying something so retarded. My concern is storage, retard, not use.
I almost guarantee none of you retards even knows what a pikaroon is.
The point of using "muh" is to show that the person you are quoting is the retard. Example:
>muh low IQ
>muh reading comprehension
>Tries to justify talking like a child
You're not fooling anyone.
Lol, I stacked and cut more lumber by the time I was 14 than you have your whole life. I love that you didn't actually counter ANY of my points and linked a youtube video...lol.
If you can't explain it: you don't understand it and I'm not watching your shit video.
Lol, posting youtube as a source on PrepHole while giving absolutely no summary or explanation. priceless.. absolutely priceless.
>Search for stainless axe
>Dozens of different options appear
>They are common... so you must be pretty dumb or oblivious or both.
Yet not a single premier axe maker in the entire world makes axes out of stainless...hmm I wonder why...I bet the companies selling chink mall ninja shit know better than Hults, Grans, Council, Ochsenkof, Helko, etc. I don't know if you are just purely trolling or if you actually think you have a fucking clue what you are talking about...either way you are shitting up the board.
>Premier Brands
Because retards like you keep buying garbage and calling it good. Just because you believe it's a premier brand doesn't make it good--it just makes it obvious you're a witless crowd follower.
>You're shitting up the board
OK, so your boomer group think and corporate cock-sucking is what is quality posting--got it. Thanks boomer.
Nice bait
So you think it isn't true?
It's not b8--popularity has little to do with quality and if you don't understand this you're very dumb.
Youtube link where? Take your meds
heres a weeks work by me every week for 3 years straight. No stainless pos would handle that
I love that you have yet to comprehend much less counter any point I've made and at this point you're just seething and saying stupid shit.
I'll talk to you like a child now so maybe you'll understand
Most people use an axe or hatchet VERY RARELY and let it sit all off season. You don't need an ultra fine edge to split wood. If you don't use an axe a lot rust will fuck up your edge so if it's stainless you actually have to sharpen it LESS.
If you use an axe a LOT get a carbon steel. It will take more abuse but usually get more attention.
So, retard, at no point did you even get close to comprehending my point much less refuting it.
I don't really see why you're this mad about it--I was just making fun of you for being retarded and having shit reading comprehension but you seem legit mad..which amuses me to no end.
>accuses others of being mad
>posts a wall of gibberish text
Meds now
Yes, you're barely literate--thanks for iterating that yet again.
Behold the megamind move
I don't see your point
Try using your words like a big boy.
Do i have toreally explain to you like a 5 year old?
If you dont use your hatchet for more than a camping trip, 2 second squirt of wd40 and put it away. No reason to invest in crap brittle stainless.
Its that fucking simple
The point was the rust ruins the edge, not that it doesn't come off easy. You're also talking about doing maintenance that is totally unnecessary on stainless.
So, yet again, youre demonstrably retarded. The whole point of low use axe-tards using stainless is so they don't have to care about babying it.
So you'd rather have objectively worse steel performance that'll chip easily on knots because you can't be arsed to spray your axe for 2 seconds when you get home
Thats certainly ypur choice. If you can make a stainless that performs as good as carbon for axes then why doesnt tuatahi use it
so you've never used a stainless axe, ever. That explains why you don't know what your talking about at all.
I'll put it another way--when you're comparing two materials you compare them for desired properties to pick the one to use.
There is no better or worse objectively--retard--there is only the best material for the purpose.
I would explain basic bitch metallurgy but you're very stupid.
Ask yourself this--if high carbon is so great why are 99% of all kitchen knives stainless.
>Ask yourself this--if high carbon is so great why are 99% of all kitchen knives stainless.
What the fuck does a kitchen knife have to do with a fucking axe?
>Metch is like 20 bucks for a stainless hatchet made in the US.
LOL!!!!!!!!!! MTECH USA, USA is in the name so it's made in the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Literal definition of mall ninja chink shit...ffs dude.
>SOG
mall ninja garbage
>Estwing
Not stainless steel
>Gerber
Chink shit
>"Custom Made"
Yeah, I bet those are real good.
Both kitchen knives and axes are hand tools designed to cut things in wet and or dirty insofar as metal is concerned things. Clearly axes and knives are very similar items. It's not like he's comparing a yo-yo b to an axe or a yoghurt is it.
The only similarity between axes and knives is they are a sharpened tool. The use, geometry and way they cut is totally different
That's irrelevant to the task at hand, they both cut things by hand and they both have to put up with corrosive humid conditions and edge abuse. You're trying to say something like weather doesn't apply to helicopters because they fly in a completely different way to a plane when they don't really and it's irrelevant anyway.
Yeah, nah. Corrosion is almost a non factor with axes. I dont even oil this lot and work all day in the rain. Doesnt make a difference
rank them from worst to best
Depends on species of wood
do an exhaustive tier list with every type of wood and the appropriate axe
The 2 old felling axes work best on ash and sycamore maple, the muller biber axe is quite good generally on oak and most softwood species, same with the ochsenkopf spaltfix. The big maul is great on knotty softwoods and the weird loking ochsenkopf is great on beech and for wedge driving as the ash handle transfers less shock
to be fair how fast things corrode depends a lot where you live. i'm not an axefag just a lurker but you might live somewhere where shit rusts slow outside and he might be in peak rust belt.
Scotland, its always raining lol
its more about the salt content in the air.
it rains constantly in the pnw where i live too, and the pnw is notorious for being one of the best places in the world to buy old cars because nothing rusts when left outside even for decades.
dunno about scotland i'm just tossing ideas around that might explain why you guys have such a different experience with corrosion.
>drinking paint is the same as wine because they are both liquids
This is your brain on goblin gas
So if they are the same tool explain
I didn't say they were the same tool, and look see, here you are asking me why a conventional plane can't hover and a helicopter can like you've made a point.
THE POINT, is that for most people a stainless axe is likely better than carbon steel for the exact same reasons it's best for a kitchen knife, the reason why they don't, I would assume, is simply cost and or margin for the manufacturer. I really don't have a dog in the fight, I don't use anything other than fiskars x30 I think it is like three times a year.
BUT MUH PATINA BRO
Oh geez i get it now, I'm forever putting my axe away soaking wet for months. I better be going and stop wasting your time.
But one more thing, you say you use the X30 a couple of times a year, but fiskars doesnt make an axe called X30
I made it pretty clear to you I wasn't sure what model it was you nerd, it's an x7 for your records and it lives inside a "dry" garage in northern England and it's rusted to fuck regardless. Doesn't bother me that much because I sharpen it as and when I need it, but this would annoy me if it was a "decent" axe that I used regularly.
Shite banter, i was making a columbo joke ya melt
Post a picture of what "rusted to fuck" is. I live in an area with similar yearly average humidity to N. England and I have never had any tools rust in the garage outside a smattering amount that can be basically wiped off with a rag and oil. I have an x7 hanging on the peg board that I haven't touched in a year and it looks like new. If it really is rusting that badly I would suggest wiping it down with a bit of literally any oil before storing it for extended periods of time. Sitting unused is sometimes the worst thing. It takes less time to wipe your tools down than it takes to wipe your ass after taking a shit.
>literal highest quality axes in world using best materials to give best performance possible for world championships
>not stainless
hmm have a you
>Ask yourself this--if high carbon is so great why are 99% of all kitchen knives stainless.
Because they are gently pushed through fucking meat and vegetables. not slammed full force with a mans entire bodyweight into knots and hardwood. now fuck off, you are so retarded you cant even recognise that you are retarded. peak Dunning Kruger effect going on with you
>gently pushed through fucking meat and vegetables
>gently
Are you retarded? They are slammed around, thrown into dishwashers, dropped onto tiled floors, into stainless steel sinks, used to cut through bones on hardwood or polymer cutting boards, ceramic plates even etc.. Some of the stresses kitchen knives are exposed to are far greater than that of axes. What an axe needs is basically high impact resistance. That's it. It doesn't need great wear or corossion resistance, so soft and tough is the way to go. An axe head also needs a lot more steel to make than a knife blade. Since stainless steel is more expenisve and harder to machine than non-stainless steels, the latter are used 99% of the time for making axes. Not because stainless steels aren't "tough enough" or some fudd bullshit like that; in fact, 14C28N is actually significantly tougher than 1095 on pretty much every hardness.
>this bro thinks dropping a knife 30cm into a sink is the same as cutting into a glass hard tree knot
so why is battoning considered abusive then? why are battoning knives 1/4" thick or froes compared to thin af kitchen knives
youve clearly never cut down a tree or split wood in your life
Imagine actually believing tree knots are as hard as glass, an anorganic, amorphous solid with a completely different molecular structure to an organic and relatively flexible material like wood. Unhinged fudd lore that is not in tune with reality in the slightest. Read a book on material science, retard.
>Only subhumans treat their kitchen knives like this.
I agree, but that is the standard to which modern chef's knives have to be made, beacause there are subhumans that WILL treat them like this and beyond.
>what is the tasmanian pattern axe and why was it invented
>tasmanian pattern axe
Is that the one with 2 heads?
If you don't know what a tasmanian pattern is your fucking embarrassingly new to axes
What is this picture supposed to prove? That you put too steep of an angle on your badly heat treated racing axe and tried to use it as a splitting maul like a complete retard?
Thick retard.
its proof that knots are harder than vegetables lmao.
Who said using it is a splitting maul? I actually race you twat. Poplar knot did that. now cut jarrah knots with a stainless axe at the same angle as a good carbon steel racing axe and see what happens.
In a sport where prices start at 500 bucks for an axe surely the best stainless would be used if it gave an advantage. I know athletes who are happy to spend 10 grand on hotsaws, 2.5k on single bucks and have 30 axes at 500 each. they could afford your super stainless steel but NOBODY makes anything from it.
But some cunt on PrepHole thinks the entire world is wrong and he's right
Peak dunning kruger
>its proof that knots are harder than vegetables lmao.
You have to strawman and misrepresent what I said, because you have nothing substantive to offer. Nowhere have I said that, nor alluded to that.
>now cut jarrah knots
Jarrah isn't even the hardest wood on the Janka scale by a huge margin. The fact that you think its knots are as hard as glass - a literal mineral with approximately the same hardness as quartz (7 on the Mohs scale btw) is, both, braindead and hilarious. Not even Ipe or Ironwood are anywhere near the hardness of glass.
>with a stainless axe
As I said, some stainless steels like 14C28N are intrinsically tougher than all 10XX series steels due to the extremely fine grain structure caused by being right at that optimal threshold of carbon absorption within the steel matrix.
>In a sport where prices start at 500 bucks for an axe surely the best stainless
Aren't Ochsenkopf racing axes made from stainless steel?
>Peak dunning kruger
Yeah, but you are the dunning krugerlet in this discussion.
>Aren't Ochsenkopf racing axes made from stainless steel?
>Yeah, but you are the dunning krugerlet in this discussion.
Just proved my point. thanks
https://www.knivesandtools.com/en/pt/-ochsenkopf-racing-axe-ox-440-h-2708.htm
>Steel of the axe head
>stainless steel
Epic self-own, retard.
Uses a shitty website details as source rather than experience
Its carbon steel. pic related is one I actually fucking owned. Sorry to ruin your smug reddit face but epic self own to you boy.
It's what popped up when I googled "Ochsenkopf racing axe steel". Seeing as how they only say "special steel" on their website. (which can literally mean any number of things and is in contrast to the rest of their axes which they specifically claim are made from C60 - a non-stainless steel), your argument is still just as obscure and non-existent.
Furthermore, the steel does look to contain some amount of chromium, simply from a visual impression.
If that triggers you then go cry to your caretaker, you unhinged retard.
>It's what popped up when I googled "Ochsenkopf racing axe steel"
Google is not a replacement for experience lmao.
Yeah of course they wont reveal exactly what steel they use, neither does Tuatahi, brute forge or engineered for axemen. They all badly rust though if you put them away without a squirt of wd40. they rust in 5 mins when soaking in water when cooling while grinding including the oxheads but you wouldnt know because you've never ground one
Interesting to call others unhinged retard when you are the one posting Auschwitz pepe out of the blue. a sure sign that you've still not taken your meds
>You can't do research on tools because... YOU JUST CAN'T OK???
Explains how you get brainlets paying upwards of $500 for mystery steel.
misrepresenting what I just said
When you do a single google search then claim epic own due to a poorly detailed website then your fucking insufferable
If you're the megamind by all means build a better axe for cheaper and make yourself a rich man. If you can genuinely beat tuatahi at their game fair play. Evidence is to the contrary however
>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO A BIT OF LIGHT-HEARTED RESEARCH!!! YOU HAVE TO EMAIL THE DISHONEST "SPECIAL STEEL" MANUFACTURER AND INQUIRE ABOUT WHAT STEEL THEY ACTUALLY USE AND WAIT 3 DAYS FOR AN UNSATISFACTORY RESPONSE TO PARTICIPATE IN MY BATSHIT INSANE AND PLAGUED BY FALLACIES ONLINE COPE PURCHASE VALIDATION DIATRIBE!!!
What even was your point through all of this? That stainless steel is "inferior" to non-stainless steel? What a retard, kek.
My point was pretty obvious but clearly you aren't open minded enough to realise. If stainless was the best for axes the top tier makers would use it and competitor with deep pockets would buy it.
In any case this entire thing has just been Manchild screams that entire world is retarded and he is the only enlightened one about muh stainless because he's too lazy to spray wd40 before putting his axe away to prevent rust. See you in the next one where you kvetch about why doesn't everybody wear velcro shoes like you!
>If stainless was the best for axes the top tier makers would use it and competitor with deep pockets would buy it.
Black or white fallacy. Non-stainless clearly works well enough and gives manufacturer's a taller profit margin because they don't have to go through the effort of machining and tempering stainless steels (which is harder and more labor intensive to do given the unique work-hardening behavior of the alloying elements). If company A sells a non-stainless steel axe for $500, it would have to sell a stainless one at $1000 to make up for the extra labor. It doesn't mean stainless steel is worse in any way, it's simply a cost issue.
But the whole reason you started this shit was saying anybody who bought a carbon steel axe was retarded for buying junk. Ignoring the toughness, now you admit its economically unviable. Lol. Way to btfo yourself further
How many cans of wd40 can i buy for 500 bucks
>But the whole reason you started this shit was saying anybody who bought a carbon steel axe was retarded for buying junk.
Quotation needed
>Premier Brands
"Because retards like you keep buying garbage and calling it good. Just because you believe it's a premier brand doesn't make it good--it just makes it obvious you're a witless crowd follower."
Not me, my first post ITT was
You can even see where the third world moron you think I am responded to it in
You really expect me to believe more than one stainless obsessed gimp exists on the bulgarian teapot enthusiasts assosiation.
Why would I respond to my own posts contradicting myself and using completely different register and spacing? I‘m not quite that sort of neurotic shitskin goblin yet. Also, if you think having an opinion or even a preference for a certain material constitutes an ‚obsession‘ you are a retard.
No having a preferance =/= stinking up the board with steel nerd geekery comparing exotic stainless to bog standard carbon, proclaiming yourself more of an expert than the rest of the world and not backing anything you say up with real world experience.
Reminder that your entire point is btfo with a squirt of wd40
Post your axe cretin or fuck off
My preference for stainless doesn't even extend to axes (as is obvious from my first post ITT):
a.) because they are very fringe
b.) there is very little demand for them and
c.) actually decent quality ones would be extremely expensive due the aforementioned harder machinability and more complex tempering process intrinsic to stainless steels
Look at Karesuando. They are one of the few manufacturers who make stainless axes and who I trust to do a good job with their heat treatment. $350 for a 300g axe head from 12C27.
You do realise op was asking about axes anon...
So really you just came here to "well acksuaally..."
Yes thanks anon for mentioning good stainless exists with better properies than a cheap kitchen knife. Gold star sticker for you now fuck off its irrellevant
Lets have a looksie
>stainless axe
>this axe is not for chopping wood
Gee what was i saying about knots and hardwood
Btfo again rofl
>a 300g hatchet with a birch handle is not designed for splitting hardwood
Who would've thought?
Fucking retard looking for impotent arguments on a chinese yam harvesting forum.
Funnily enough i have a rinaldi 350g axe that splits wood fine
https://www.ochsenkopf.com/en-de/produkte/forestry-and-carpentry-tools/wood-working-tools/axes/ox-440-h-champion-axe/ox-440-h-2708---1592696
Its listed as special steel not stainless on the actual manufacturers website.
>those prices
What the fuck.
You think axes that can cut a 30cm diameter block in 20 hits are cheap?
As a chef this post hurts my soul. Only subhumans treat their kitchen knives like this.
>slammed around, thrown into dishwashers
Is this gay serious?
You don't know how to stack wood and are giving advice on axes? Pretty cringe ngl.
I bet those were all split by a hydraulic splitter.
Wow 4 face cords lmao, is that supposed to impress. Split that in a morning
If you think this is even a chord of wood I see that your stupidity well exceeds my greatest expectations.
>chord
Its spelled cord retard
Even more ironic is there is almost 8 chords in that picture, not 4.
But sure, I guess you have to take a win somewhere so spelling was the only option left.
Theres barely 4 FACE CORDS. A full cord is 8'x4'x4'.
Your picture file name is even (misspelled) 4 chords lmao
In any case it aint much
Yes, you're retarded, I get it.
What was your point again? Oh, spellchecking--that's right, that's all you have left.
Post a stainless steel axe that isn't complete chinkshit garbage, I'll wait.
>South and central america good
>china bad
Fun fact--you're retarded. Probably 1/4 to 1/2 the high carbon brands are made in china or third world shitholes--like condor.
...Metch is like 20 bucks for a stainless hatchet made in the US. Took me like 2 seconds to find--retard--and there were pages and pages of stainless axes.
Sog
Estwing
Gerber
...amazon is loaded with custom made ones.
They use carbon because it's cheap and easy to work with--not because it's better for splitting wood.
In fact condor, for example, has a hardness on the rockwell scale around 55--that's EXATLY the fucking SAME as most stainless steel and it doesn't rust.
Yeah thanks for clarifying beyond all doubt you are a retard who's entire experience with edged tools is based of youtube mall ninja videos
That tree was obviously cut with a chainsaw. You could have just used a hammer to hammer in the wedges, instead of LARPing with a shitty nylon handle axe.
no shit sherlock, point is you make statements about stainless steel when you obviously have no work experience with axes, saws or hard use of tools. stainless steel axes would just shatter cutting hardwood or driving wedges.
A whole stack of axe cut wood for your viewing pleasure. lets see yours
I‘m a different anon, brainlet. I can smell your fursuit from here you larpoid.
being a different anon still doesn't change the fact you just got btfo and are now coping with generic lame insults. Post your axe or fuck off
>waaah waaaaaah waaaaaaaaah
Cope, dilate, rope. In that order.
is that beech?
Yes well spotted
Fact check subhuman calls a Scot an american mutt
>muh stainless
Now tell us about how you can't be bothered to maintain your tools
Axes don't need to be made from stainless steel because their primary use is splitting dry wood, which isn't a corrossive material. Stainless steel also is more expensive to manufacture and machine than non-stainless steel.
>OMG IM MAINTAINING!!!
Retard. Please elaborate why professional chefs almost exclusively use stainless steel kitchen knives.
Because they can't be bothered to maintain them after cutting acidic food
gotcha
So you don't know anything about axes or cooking
zero surprise.
>t. has never worked in a kitchen or taken care of tools
It's a metal handle, bubba. The tool is one piece with rubber material on the grip area, though I'm sure americans won't struggle to find ones where the metal doesn't extend under the plastic.
Lmfao at you autists shitting up another thread.
americans are subhumans AND mutts.
Lol do Yuros have to ship-in Hickory wood?
Yeah its non native, ash is better anyway
Hickory is better in every way bro. Stronger wood, healthier tree, prettier tree, better mast.
Brazilian ipe or Desert Ironwood mog the fuck out of Hickory in every way. 10 times harder, 10 times better tensile strength, much prettier. Why don't mutts use that?
Hickory has the best cross section of all characteristics, durable, strong, fairly light weight, good grain, almost zero maintenence, cheap, easy to work, shock resistant. When you start looking for the total package hickory is probably the clear winner.
As a tree, no other can compete with the luminous color of its foliage in fall. It produces a heavy mast crop almost every year. It is a strong healthy common tree.
Actually fell and buck trees for 6 hours and then tell me ash aint the best. The difference in shock absorbtion is massive. Unless you use very thinned down hickory like the handles from the before 1950s axes then your elbow will be fucked. I know someone who is a blacksmith who uses exclusively ash hammers for this reason
Ash is the best. There is no arguing with Blackid mutts though because it isn't native to their shithole.
Its a miracle the human race survived until stainless steel was invented in 1913
One of these days the scientists will fire up the hadron collider and erase stainless steel from our history, and then we're fucked
Why bother just get a machete?
do you actually split firewood with a machete?
So thoughts on council tool? Strap onto a pack somehow.
>Wood-Craft 2lbs Pack Axe W/24" Curved Handle
Very good qaulity especially for the money. Even the cheapest council tools are solid
Thinking I'll get that 24 inch handle one.
Gear threads are great because they quarantine the worst of the insufferable fags on this board. Unfortunately they are the only place with much traffic though kek.
Just ordered a Flying Fox because of this thread, thanks guys!
I have a feeling the guys talking shit about carbon steel axes and saying that stainless steel axes are superior probably don't even own a single axe.
i never thought a thread about axes could be this schizo lmbo
Schizophrenia is based. Also I am never taking meds (they are a judeo-corporate poy to keep the enlightened docile and suppressed).
Axeschitzos, I'm in the market for a 'general purpose' axe that doesn't cost hundreds but will still serve me well, what do I get? Bonus points for being readily available in Australia.
I just got this axe at the Gerber sale. What am I in for?
It's fine, I have a fiskars hatchet that is basically the same minus the holes and wedges on the side. It's sharp but a bit soft, easy to sharpen though...works fine and lighter compared to more traditional axes.
Lol the fucking mental gymnastics of this stainlessfag are absolutely golden...just post your fucking axe already...the guy you're arguing with has posted his. Show us the superior stainless axe that is used by the Übermensch.
Wish Bongs still made these...
They look cool but are pretty useless for splitting and too heavy for most chopping. Brades yankee pattern however is the best axe ever made by anyone
Big axe based
Your post cringe
???
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Straight grained wood doesnt prove shit my man. Used to own one
was about to say
I just chop wood recreationally for the rare backyard fire hangout, but even I felt that those rounds were in prime splitting condition
Now watch buckin with a dayton, tassie or double. He'll demolish more wood in far less time with less sticks. Welsh patterns have extremely thin profile and long bit for such a ig axe