I have a hults bruk akka. I had wanted a very nice swedish axe for a long time. but I don't hardly use the thing. for me most of my use is fire prep for a camp fire. I find that one of my machetes, either a les stroud waorani or kbar cutless are more handy for limbs and logs 4" around and below. That to me covers a ton of what I will be cutting, in fact most of it. I can cut larger but larger and the machetes really lose out to the axes there. But in that case the better choice is a saw and not an axle at all. something like a silky saw are any of the bow saws do better in that case.
the axe to me has 2 uses. actually cutting down trees and splitting. I don't out right cut down a tree often. I do split wood a bit. in which case I find my little fiskers hatchet pretty handy for that. So at the end of the day the expensive swedish axes have very limited use for me.
Last edited by cumminscowboy; 08/11/19.
