For you Axe Lovers.

[41Dude]

On YouTube

The Axman: US Forest Service Training Film

and

Pioneer Axe

The Pioneer Axe video would make OSHA's inspectors heads explode.

 

[Mobuck]

I have no LOVE for any axe--spent far too much time on the working end of one.

 

[41Dude]

I have no LOVE for any axe--spent far too much time on the working end of one.

Yikes. Me either. The pioneer video is short tour of old axe making factory just before it closed forever.

 

[375hh1973]

Someone axed me for a light the other day. Told him I didn't smoke.

 

[gnappi]

Jeez I thought it was a guitar (axe) thread.

 

[Mobuck]

When I was 14 Dad bought 60 acres of 'brush pasture'. From October through March every Saturday was devoted to clearing this land. Dad was a rural mail carrier and got home around 1PM most days. On Saturday, I'd do the chores and then head out with an axe to get in a few hours before noon. When he got home, we'd go back out and work until evening chore time. Cold and snowy or warm and muddy, made no diff. Chop sprouts and make piles. Bigger stuff (6" diameter and up) Dad cut with the old Homelite chain saw (if it would run). With a sharp axe and good swing, a 3" sapling required 3-4 whacks. When I got tired, Dad chopped and I piled.
Only good thing that came of all this (other than clearing and improving the land) was the number of rabbits that lived under the brushpiles. Every Sunday afternoon unless it was blizzarding was spent rabbit hunting.
IIRC, Dad was partial to KeenKutter axes. I still have his last axe hanging in my basement.

 

[Watertender]

Someone axed me for a light the other day. Told him I didn't smoke.

They axed you a qweshun....

 

[contender]

For whatever reason, I can't view the link.

 

[hittman]

Heck, I don’t even see a link.

 

[jimbo1096]

Not a link. Just search for title on u-bube

A much younger me did side work supplying fireplace wood and did the splitting by hand at first. Not an axe lover either.

But I do like Axeman on Street Outlaws.

 

[Sam Summey]

For whatever reason, I can't view the link.

What link?

 

[contender]

I guess I thought we had a link to it. I've been w/o internet for 3 days, and had been using my phone for limited access. And since I'm not a you-boob cruiser, subscriber, or anything,, I don't go "searching."

 

[oliver507]

Council axes do it better!!! LOL Google Council Fine Edged tools.

 

[protoolman]

I'm partial to Plumb axes myself. Also have an old Norlund hatchet. I've heard of Sager axes being good but haven't found one yet to try.

 

[Richard76]

more of a chainsaw/woodsplitter/maul type these day. have a nice Estwing camp axe but also have 6 chainsaws.....

 

[Richard76]

husky here

 

[Richard76]

put 'em up

lol the war continues......

 

[Richard76]

BTW I do have one Stihl in the house, It's the only one that doesn't run. and not a knock on Stihl, it is my stepsons and it was never run for years. pretty sure if I took the carb apart and cleaned everything, it would run.

 

[eveled]

I have no LOVE for any axe--spent far too much time on the working end of one.

Love is a strong word, but surely you can appreciate a really nice axe and how it cuts easier than a clunky one.

 

[tazbigdog]

And I thought this thread was about Gransfor Bruks.
https://gransforsus.com/shop/?utm_s...paign=Asher-GrandForestEcommerce&gad_source=1

 

[wwb]

If you grew up in Minnesota, all the old-timers had a Kelly-How-Thomson axe and/or hatchet. I have two that I inherited from my granddad.

https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2017/11/01/kelley-thomson-company-duluth/

 

[3manfan]

For the city folk

 

[dadstillsurfs]

Back in the very early 1960s, I sold so many Scout-O-Rama tickets that I was able to get a genuine BSA double-bitted axe. I never have been able to figure out who made axes for the BSA. Any good guesses?
Anyway, I still have the axe and still use it. It sharpens up great and cuts small limbs off downed trees into kindling like nobody's business.
I've got a new Husqvarna chainsaw to take the trees down and buck them up.
I may be old, but I ain't stupid.

 

[MaxMan]

The missing link? He axed.

 

[MaxMan]

BTW I do have one Stihl in the house, It's the only one that doesn't run. and not a knock on Stihl, it is my stepsons and it was never run for years. pretty sure if I took the carb apart and cleaned everything, it would run.

My experience with my Echo. Sits a while and clean the carb.

 

[MaxMan]

What link?

The missing link

 

[Sam Summey]

I have a double bit True Temper axe because it stays sharp twice as long as a single bit.

 

[Watertender]

Chief AJ sent me one of his Flying Fox throwing axes by Collins and I have a Snow and Nealley Hudson Bay pattern axe that I carry in my truck.
My dad ran a sawmill and we had an assortment of axes and other tools for handling the logs and lumber.

Snow and Nealley is now run by the Amish and they make a limited number of axe patterns now. They make a good product and I am pleased with the ones that I have from them.

I have watched the video from the Pioneer Axe Company and it was interesting. The 2 guys in it worked together and no wasted motion between them.

Condor makes axes in El Salvador and if they are as good as the knives they make it's a good product

 

[Richbaker]

On YouTube

The Axman: US Forest Service Training Film

and

Pioneer Axe

The Pioneer Axe video would make OSHA's inspectors heads explode.

This thread is useless without links.....

 

[Richbaker]

Not a be link. Just search for title on u-bube

A much younger me did side work supplying fireplace wood and did the splitting by hand at first. Not an axe lover either.

But I do like Axeman on Street Outlaws.

You're lazy....