Axe for Hiking

[masiaka]

Update: just found a wetterling large hunters axe for less than $75. Too much of a sale to pass up.

 

[Liam Ryan]

Hold on, you can buy cool little hatchets like this at Staples in the US? I can't find one anywhere in Canada.
Edit. just found it on amazon, shipping is steep but oh well wanted it for a while. I didn't know it had the alias sub zero.
OP you will be pleased with your wetterlings, post a pic when it arrives.

a Vaughan sub zero would be good.
http://www.staples.com/Vaughan-Sub-...e-Forged-Steel-10-inch-1-2-lbs/product_700271
here is a good BF thread:


http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/233526-Vaughan-little-hatchet

 

[bearhunter]

Just please don't buy cheap Chinese or Taiwan crap... Get a real axe

 

[markv]

before purchasing a hatchet read through this
http://www.oldjimbo.com/survival/tinyhatchets.html

he has some real experience with these tools and writes sensibly about them

buzz

here is an offering from Forestry suppliers for the Vaughan
http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/view_catalog_page.asp?id=1747#

 

[HardTripper]

The gransfors bruks small forest axe is as big and heavy as I like to use if in carrying it any appreciable distance.

 

[masiaka]

The gransfors bruks small forest axe is as big and heavy as I like to use if in carrying it any appreciable distance.

That's the kind of tool I'm looking for. Big as I can carry and still want to carry.

 

[Square_peg]

The Stubai 6718 is available in a 2-pound (900g) model with a 23-1/2" handle. This might fit the bill for you.

http://www.stubai.com/seiten_englisch/frame-main-forst-02-eng.htm

 

[Kirk_Ferentz]

You may have already made your purchse, but I saw the condor woodworker axe ... it looks like it is up your alley. I wouldn't mind trying one myself, but already have my wetterlings.

http://www.baryonyxknife.com/woodworkeraxe.html

 

[tholiver]

I have the Vaughan, its VERY tiny. It can chop better than you would think. My particular hatchet needed to be reground slightly and the handle was mounted slightly crooked. I reground the edge and slightly reshaped the handle. The thing is the wood portion that goes into the eye is very thin and does not inspire confidence, therefore i am always overworried about breakage.
I picked up a used Norlund Hatchet on ebay that was only slightly bigger/heavier than the Vaughan, personally i'd carry the Norlund because the handle looks to be more robust. On ebay I recently found the tiny 14A version of the The Estwing leather washer-handled axe. Previously i had seen pics of the 14A and 24A side by side but pics just can't convey how much smaller/lighter the 14A is. I have pics of my Vaughan but none of it next to my Estwing 14A. I'll try and get some side by side pics done in the next few days.

 

[Mossyhorn]

A Two Hawks Voyageur would be a great hiking axe.

 

[masiaka]

The wetterlings arrived. My Gransfors Bruks fanboy of a friend was grudgingly impressed. He also approved of some regrinding I did on a Kobalt felling axe.