Fiskars - unbreakable?

[Operator1975]

So much for that thought -

 

[stevenkelby]

How did you do that? I've had their block splitter in that style that for years and it's survived fantasticaly, I've been super impressed.

Other fiberglass choppers have only lasted a few months before failing, wood ones last only weeks with me at the other end

 

[thebrain]

Cold weather overstrike?

 

[stevenkelby]

Good point, I overstrike all the time but it never gets cold here.

If you're chopping a very big log, end on, sometimes the head goes where you want but the log splits surprisingly easily letting the head travel fully into the log and making the handle contact the log very hard.

 

[Tbags]

My Fisker machette is cracked on the top and bottom of the handle, just waiting for the blade to go flying.

 

[Ookami]

Then just return the thing (or replace the handle if you have used up the 10 year warranty)!

Flying blades are a serious threat to life and limb!


Ookami

 

[Cpl Punishment]

There's no such animal as "unbreakable".

If you think it is, just lend it to a 12 year old.

 

[cckw]

I will say that I was surprised when I read on the forums that these were considered a good option. When I see photos of broken ones that is more what I expected from them. I've never been tempted by them. I stick with my restored vintage stuff.

 

[Operator1975]

To the defense of the hatchet, that is what might happen if someone was to drop the butt of a 36 inch cherry tree on it while it was at the base of the stump.

 

[PDE]

Then just return the thing (or replace the handle if you have used up the 10 year warranty)!

Flying blades are a serious threat to life and limb!


Ookami

Please give us a demonstration..........

 

[Ookami]

There are many tutorials on the forums. Mind you, this comment was about the machete not the hatchet.

The machete has to have some length of steel working as the tang in the handle, if that was not enough for a conventional handle, you could sacrifice some of the blade to make it longer or weld an extension, etc.

Anyway, using a defective machete is a NO GO.


Ookami

PS: Just looked around in the forums (here) and the tang is a stubby 1¼". So you'd lose some length (I would go for at least 3" depending on type of handle construction, which would still leave around 7" of blade length), it'd probably be good to get rid of the hook to get a more useful blade shape.

 

[Stringfellow Hawke]

Ookami, I am under the impression that he was talking about the machete, not the Brush Axe. I would have provided a link from Fiskars site but they sell them from there soo... Search Fiskars 22" machete.

On topic, my friend broke my Fiskars hatchet by battoning in very cold weather. A task it has done hundreds of times, problem was, he was hitting the handle.

Can't turn your back for a second.

 

[Czechmate]

Friends are so careful with your gear sometimes.. On a moose hunt, I had to explain to my buddy why he couldn't split firewood on a steel truck rim with my axe, he seemed confused why it wasn't a good idea... The axe had already suffered some overstrikes and pass throughs on the the wood he was splitting and the edge was toast. I know it's easy to resharpen but it's something that could've been easily avoided.

It's funny what people will do with stuff that isn't theirs.

 

[Ookami]

True that. It is especially enraging if they act like it wasn't a big deal.


Ookami

 

[PDE]

Ookami, I am under the impression that he was talking about the machete, not the Brush Axe. I would have provided a link from Fiskars site but they sell them from there soo... Search Fiskars 22" machete.

On topic, my friend broke my Fiskars hatchet by battoning in very cold weather. A task it has done hundreds of times, problem was, he was hitting the handle.

Can't turn your back for a second.

Friends are so careful with your gear sometimes.. On a moose hunt, I had to explain to my buddy why he couldn't split firewood on a steel truck rim with my axe, he seemed confused why it wasn't a good idea... The axe had already suffered some overstrikes and pass throughs on the the wood he was splitting and the edge was toast. I know it's easy to resharpen but it's something that could've been easily avoided.

It's funny what people will do with stuff that isn't theirs.

True that. It is especially enraging if they act like it wasn't a big deal.


Ookami

Yep, same way my fiskars axe ended up in the trash.

Even worse that my brother did it.

The reason they are so rough on tools can be put down to their ignorance.
If I loaned my brother something he knows about, like a car, he would
treat it like a newborn baby.

It helps if you tell them what the tool is worth: E.G.,

"Hey Damian can I use that new knife of yours?"

"No it cost $300.00, well, only if you want to be responsible for it......."

(My brother, who has ruined so much of my stuff, asked this the other day
we were out. Got to love him.)
OR

ask them if they want to borrow your tooth brush while they are at.

 

[Algonquin]

I never expected the ax to break at the handle. I aways assumed the fibreglass that wrapped around the ax head would peel with extensive use. This is where it is wearing on mine.

 

[Humppa]

Well, Fiskars products are divinitelly not unbreakable!

Once I bought a maul from Fiskars, to smash 1 metre wooden pieces in two with an wedge. It was winter, so I smashed about two or three hours. After theese hours, the handle was hardly damaged, the maul-head was breaking the handle, so it looked like a mushroom.
I brought it back to the hardware store and changed it with a wooden-handles maul.

After these experiences, I never wanted a product from Fiskars, don´t trust them anymore. Wooden handles give you a much better handle feeling (imho).

Theese are my thoughts...

Kind regards...