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My hands down favorite is their traditional hunter's axe with the mirror polished poll. 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.......
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I just use an old Plumb rig axe.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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My hands down favorite is their traditional hunter's axe with the mirror polished poll. 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....... Heathen
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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My hands down favorite is their traditional hunter's axe with the mirror polished poll. 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....... Yeah, I've heard that a flat poll helps when driving drunk.
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Hey, a flat poll beats swinging a rock.....
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Campfire 'Bwana
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They make a model called the "small forest axe" for those who require a tool with three flat surfaces for pounding tent stakes.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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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.
What fresh Hell is this?
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They make a model called the "small forest axe" for those who require a tool with three flat surfaces for pounding tent stakes. 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.
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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.
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it served to split the softwood I have on hand, but doesn't hardly put a dent in mesquite.
The floor is open to comments. 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." .... or better yet a powered splitter. 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
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I just use an old Plumb rig axe. 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....
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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....
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You did not "seen" anything, you "saw" it. A "creek" has water in it, a "crick" is what you get in your neck. Liberals with guns are nothing but hypocrites.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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You can buy a custom axe with the head tempered by Bavarian elves and a handle made out of left over Stradavarius wood, but you won't find an axe or splitter that does better than the Fiskars brand.
And they are inexpensive.
I have the shorter "boys axe" that I carry in my trucks, and the same size splitter and a longer full size splitter. Best I've ever used in all cases.
Casey
Thank you Casey. One of the funniest things I've read in a bit
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I think the husqavarna axes are made by wetterlings and wetterling has been bought by GF
Anyone know if thats still the husky supplier?
Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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