I used to think that an axe is an axe, until I borrowed a pard’s (bearhuntr) small forest axe.

The weight, balance, length, blade shape and profile, are unmatched. There are a number of second-place axes, but only one first place.

If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli

American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender