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First thing a guy needs to do when he gets this one, is to grind the poll flat so's he can drive tent stakes.......

I just use an old Plumb rig axe.

Heathen

Yeah, I've heard that a flat poll helps when driving drunk.

Hey, a flat poll beats swinging a rock.....

They make a model called the "small forest axe" for those who require a tool with three flat surfaces for pounding tent stakes.

I've got a Fiskars too. Pretty sure it's the same as the Gerber for half the bucks.

Watch the bushcrafter videos on YouTube. Those folks are as nutso about their axes and knives as CFers are over Tikkas and Mausers.

I have the GB small forest axe: great quality but the angle of the head is more for cutting and not splitting. Head gets stuck too often when I've used it to make kindling. Handle is too long for packing or driving stakes - IME.

I'm with hunts. A hatchet was my number one tool when trapping in Alaska. I drove LOTS of stakes, albeit not tent, with the hatchet.

Along with all the other necessary crap you need to do when setting traps.

I haven't had the 'privilege' of splitting mesquite BUT...
I have split "Sycamore". The toughest wood I've ever encountered. Since you said, "the floor is open to comments."



A POWER splitter is best<< quickest<< easiest way.

I have a 21 ton hydraulic and UNLESS I'm mistaken, seems I've seen an advertisement, someone makes an 'electric' power splitter.

AT 67 yo, my 'manual' splitting days are over. grin

Jerry

That works...
I keep one in my camp box for driving tent stakes and such because I don't want to mutilate the pole on my Husky....

A rig axe is the way for driving stuff. But personally, I like the Vaughan's better than Plumb. Better balance for driving due to the weight in the head rather than the blade. They also seem to be faster chopping out trap beds in frezzen ground.....Have multiples of each, tho....

I like my Estwing.

Some axes, hatchets and cleavers

Thank you Casey. One of the funniest things I've read in a bit

I think the husqavarna axes are made by wetterlings and wetterling has been bought by GF

Anyone know if thats still the husky supplier?

A utilitarian hatchet for more than chopping wood. Pounds nails, staples and stakes, etc., pulls nails and barb fence wire. Plus, it works well on a chicken head on a block of wood.

I split just short of 20 full cords of Red Oak and Rock/Sugar Maple cut to 3' lengths for my wood boiler with an Fiskars X27 this past fall. Best splitting axe I have ever used.

Red Oak nearly splits just looking at it.We don't have much Sugar Maple,so I've never split that. I've rarely used an axe for splitting. For most of our wood a maul is necessary.

My wood is tougher than your wood.