another day hike: axe chop-off.

[tman038]

great thread as usual. what type of camera do you use? thanks for sharing.

 

[300Six]

First bird was a Wood Thrush by the way. Close cousin of American Robin which is shown in a following shot. Super photographs by the way and good record shots for others to see.
You are trying to be objective about axe quality but neither of the items you tested differ by much (both are Scandinavian and outrageously expensive) except blade thickness and sharpening angle. Give me 1/2 hour with a grinder and file on either of these and your decision can easily be reversed.

 

[JV3]

Some are for carpentry, some for limbing, a few for felling, a couple for splitting, a few hatchets (most are in bad shape from 30-40 years of neglect before we took over the farm) and a couple of strange ones for marking trees (farm symbol on one end, hatchet head). I don't use the specialized axes much since I'm not building log houses and usually mark the trees I'm going to cut down with marker bands

I mostly use a few older limbing and felling axes that I've restored and a newer Wetterlings splitting ax and hatchet. Since I can hand pick them that compensates for their lesser QC when compared to more expensive GB axes (I also regrind most of them to get the edges I want)

i wish i had a valid excuse to own that wide variety of axes

great thread as usual. what type of camera do you use? thanks for sharing.

thanks! it's a nikon d90 body with a tamron 18-270 mm lens (it won the 2011 lens of the year award in japan or something like that, i can't remember exactly without the box/label on it).

First bird was a Wood Thrush by the way. Close cousin of American Robin which is shown in a following shot. Super photographs by the way and good record shots for others to see.
You are trying to be objective about axe quality but neither of the items you tested differ by much (both are Scandinavian and outrageously expensive) except blade thickness and sharpening angle. Give me 1/2 hour with a grinder and file on either of these and your decision can easily be reversed.

thanks! i've never heard of a wood thrush before but now i know

about the axes - the majority recommends the small forest axe as the go-to gransfors bruks axe to buy to newbies. the sfa vs. hunter axe thread (http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1120090-gransfors-bruks-hunter-s-axe) to which the contents of this thread was included is merely to go against the majority and toss in the hunter's axe as a possible option for those people who've already made up their mind they want a gransfors bruks but haven't narrowed down the specific model i like to go against the grain and stir the pot here once in awhile

as far as the sfa and hunter is concerned, i found that the handle/haft shape and length contributed more in their performance differences than their head shape/thickness/sharpening angle...and that's something that a grinder/file can't fix...only a total re-handle will do.