A good light winter "survival" hatchet?

I would toss a cold steel trail hawk to the mix, with a modified edge it will cut very well, plus there's the cool factor of a tomahawk, which you can also modify as you please.
 
My GB Small Forest Axe has excellent bite, and is my go-to axe when limbing or medium sized chopping jobs come up. But, its short handle makes it automatically dangerous, in a way that my 25 or 30 inch axes aren't.

Nevertheless, I accept this tendency of the SFA, because it does what no other of my axes will do-- incredibly handy and incredible chopping power, which is easily swung one handed, or two. I just make very sure to only swing it extra carefully.

Ray Mears likes his for the same reason, it is a stellar tool.


You obviously need one of each size of expensive Swedish axe. You can keep them in a golf bag, and draw out the correct one for the shot, I mean, job.
 
You'll find in the winter that you simply want every inch of leverage you can get. A light 19 inch trail hawk will be next to useless-it'll bounce off like a .22 caliber bullet on a tank. Erasmus is right, once you get yourself a nice scandinavian axe, they are much like HI or ESEE or any of the other addictive companies out there. Unless you have a broad carpenter's axe and a felling axe in every size, you just keep buying more of them.
 
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