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Splitting/Chopping Tool Review Thread
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woodchuck357
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http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdfpubs/pdf99232823/pdf99232823Pdpi72pt04.pdf
Not the same but good info.
Might be a bit better http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=607224&d=1332457239
Not the same but good info.
Might be a bit better http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=607224&d=1332457239
Looks like woodchuck found it. I saw that on google.
spike60
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Hey, we like weekends too! During the warm months, we are open 8-6 during the week and the 8-12 on Saturday. That's 54 hours a week, and it's enough. (winter is 9-5 during the week). Saturday is primarily a drop off/pick up day. After so many years, people "get it". Well, at least the locals get it. Probably not so much the weekenders, but the store really isn't about them like other local businesses that cater to, and depend on them. We are a more pro/serious user type of shop geared towards the working guys. My saw sales mix is 85% pro saws. But either way, when noontime hits on Saturday, I'm not interested in more customers/business. I'm looking forward to enjoying the weekend with family and friends just like everybody else.
No, I'm still not a Fiskars guy. (except for their bow saws which are cheap and very good.) But I stock them because they are the best recognized and popular brand out there and they are the only one with the longer handle that the bigger guys prefer. We revisited that ash to get some more and I had my Collins 6lb, and that was at least the equal of the S2800. Didn't bring the wood handle Husky splitting axe as this wood was way to big, and not necessarily as straight grained as ash usually is. Didn't have a wood handled Husky maul to try. The 8lb council hadn't done as well on the last trip because the edge is old and untouched, and the weight was more than what we have grown used to. The collins 6lb has a very nice edge that I put on it. The Total maul didn't work as good, because it just isn't.
benp
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Hey, we like weekends too! During the warm months, we are open 8-6 during the week and the 8-12 on Saturday. That's 54 hours a week, and it's enough. (winter is 9-5 during the week). Saturday is primarily a drop off/pick up day. After so many years, people "get it". Well, at least the locals get it. Probably not so much the weekenders, but the store really isn't about them like other local businesses that cater to, and depend on them. We are a more pro/serious user type of shop geared towards the working guys. My saw sales mix is 85% pro saws. But either way, when noontime hits on Saturday, I'm not interested in more customers/business. I'm looking forward to enjoying the weekend with family and friends just like everybody else.
I agree.
Your schedule is almost identical to my mom and pop family run dealer.
I have zero issues with it and I don't think any of the locals do either.
I let my employees work on Saturdays and stay open later to give them some additional hours. I have my own work to do elsewhere on Saturdays!
Found these in a box of stuff from cleaning my grandpa's garage out 12 years ago after he passed and we were moving my grandma into a nursing home. Drilled the remaining wood out the eyes tonight. Not that I need more axes but what the heck, it's a fairly cheap winter project. That DB has seen some use judging by the uneven edges
Resurrected three of the 4 heads that I posted above. Nice looking grain on the single bit handles.
Split a little box elder at my neighbors house. Need to do some more splitting to buff the rust off of these.
Split a little box elder at my neighbors house. Need to do some more splitting to buff the rust off of these.
MechanicMatt
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Your grandpa is smiling Steve.
Hope so. One of his rasps would have been helpful while seating these!
I measured the eye on that little head and found out it is a "scout" axe. Which is smaller than a boys axe yet the head is larger than a standard hatchet although they are sometimes grouped together.
1 stihl nut
former space alien
Looks good!
A flap wheel on a right angle grinder does a marvelous job of polishing them. They leave no swirl marks. I've use then on plow shares as well. Can also be used to dress the edge a bit.
They might not have the rustic look, but they do look sweet. You can always leave them out in the rain if you want the rustic look back.
It definitely reduces friction.
thefeckerwest
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All done without the assistance of an internal combustion engine. That elderly gentleman looks trim and healthy.
Purchased from Menard's. The one on the left looks as though it is a laminated gun stock. Really neat coloring.
I find it funny that one of the quotes from the fit gentleman in the video is actually "Back in the late 50s we still had proper axes"
sledge&wedge
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Man, my dad has had one of these Estwing's for as long as I can remember. We've used it for everything from clearing ATV trails of blowdowns to splitting wood around a campfire. I watched him cut down the broken off trunk of a 20" pine with that thing in about 20 chops and looking back, I can't believe how much of a feat that really was. I don't think I can remember a single trip to any woods, anywhere, that didn't involve that axe. I picked one up on clearance from Cabela's about 5 years ago and have used it for tons of tasks. Lightweight, solid, good price, and nostalgic (for me, at least). I'll never have to buy another axe again.
Keep in mind... I didn't say I use it for splitting regularly. The ol' X27 still reigns supreme there.
Thanks @Philbert for the nostalgia overdose to finish out my day at work
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