A question about house axes

There are two eye sizes in the hatchet handles. And some times they are both marked scout axe. The handle that "house handles" sells as a house axe is full size eye. Might be a good canidate for a hardened poll or light fallers axe.

Here are the single bit eyes for comparison.

Left to right, full size, boys axe, hatchet(scout) and scout.
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Not much of a leap from boys axe to hatchet.
 
I think of a house axe as a two pound axe on a 19 inch handle, or there abouts. A miners axe is a full size head on a short 20-24 inch handle.

In these parts a chain saw axe is another name for an undercutter axe.
 
Square_peg said:
I think of a house axe as a two pound axe on a 19 inch handle, or there abouts. A miners axe is a full size head on a short 20-24 inch handle.

In these parts a chain saw axe is another name for an undercutter axe.
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So many of the "official" miners axe's I've seen have had a hardened poll and I'd just assumed that this was part of the definition; a short axe (for swinging in a mine shaft) with a hardened poll for use in trimming and pounding in beams for shoring up the shaft.
 
Square_peg said:
A house axe also has the same size eye as a boys axe.

A miner's axe traditionally had a hardened poll. Generically there were called 'construction axes' though the mines are one place they were commonly used.


http://cedarriverforge.com/Photo-index/Tools/Seattle Hardware catalog pages/Axes Prices.pdf

House axe is on page 3. Construction axes on page 5.
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Good point on the under cutter being called a chain saw axe.

The Plumb house axe is what comes to mind when I think of a house axe.

Its a little odd to me that House Handles makes there house axe handle a full size eye.

To further complicate things them construction axes are in the rafting axe pattern, the GB is called a rafting axe the others construction axes. Lots of confusion based on how the manufactures wanted to market there axes.

Maybe a Dayton style axe on a short handle with a hardened poll is a miners axe?
 
Looking at how the current manufacturers are marketing them...

The "house axe" handles from Tennessee Hickory Products are 19" and listed as fitting 2-1/4 pound heads.

Council Tool currently has several models of what they call a "miner's axe".
3.5# Jersey on either a 20" or 26" straight haft; and
3.5# Dayton on either a 20" or 26" straight haft; and
4# Dayton on a 20" straight haft.

The miner's axe made by Barco has a 3.5# Dayton head on a 20" straight haft.
Barco sells a replacement "house axe" handle that's 19" and for a 2-1/4# head.
 
Do-It-Best sells house axe handles sized for a boys axe eye. I think they're made by Link.
 
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