Folding camp Pac-Ax

peripatew

peripatew

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Next to some other knives for comparison, BK-7
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I got this from my Dad a year or so ago, I've only used it once for a brief moment. And, seeing as how I don't have anything else to compare it with, I'm not sure how great it is. I think it is a great design though.

Any thoughts?

When you take an axe or a hatchet, what size do you take?

Some more pictures of it here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lltmcfadden/Knives/

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I thought it worked great, but that was from use prior to my recent knife/survival kick here lately. I'm going to take them out Wednesday (them being my new BK-7) and see how well they work. I used it once on a camping trip and it worked great, as did the pocket saw I took.
 
The military issued a folding machete to their pilots and I guess it did what it was supposed to do, but I don't think that I would want to trust my life to a folding hand axe. Gonna be beating on hard wood with it and the pivot point would be the first place to give and an out of control axe head will put the user in harms way for sure.

Look up a Fiskars garden axe at your local hardware store. If they have them, they are usually under $20.00. Not as classy as a GB, but they do get the work done.
 
Yes, but it's yours.............mine are in my truck. :D

I really do like that hatchet. Would be nice to know all about it.


Robbie Roberson ;)
 
I've tried to find out more specific information about it, but even The Google lets me down. I'm going to do some more digging, and see if I can find anything.

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My kid bro had a pac-ax he carried every were he went for a few years until he lost it,been trying to find him another ever since. He used it at work for busting up wood packing crates seemed to work well enough for him, if any one has any luck finding a source please post it
 
I saw one just like it in the movie survival quest, in the last scene. Don't know who made it tho, but the rest of the knives in the movie were bucks. Hope that might help.
 
Wow, now we've got to find out more...........I would buy one of those just because it's so unique ! :D

Naked, thanks for showing us that. :)


Robbie Roberson
 
The only thing I've been able to find out is where the patent holder went to high school. Hum....
 
I remember seeing those pac-axes in a number of places years ago. I found an expired ebay listing where one sold for around $64. Wow! Seems to me they were waaaay more affordable than that when they were around. I think I passed on them because I was afraid the folding design wouldn't hold up over time. I guess I was wrong about that.
 
So I'm pretty excited that I have such a unique tool! I'm still trying to find out more about it.
 
I am a push over for tools that do something different than the "original design" was designed to do.

Or........a design variation that is different than the original..........but gets you almost the same results as with the original.........but maybe with a slight twist along the way. :confused:

Heck, maybe the hatchet and the SOG Revolver are related somehow............maybe cousins. :D

And I bet that hatchet would work well for camping or survival situations.

Anyway, I like that hatchet !


Robbie Roberson. ;)
 
I know this is a 5 yr old thread, however I have a Pac-Ax new un-used, still in box. It was $ 37 from REI sometime in 1990's. Made in USA,
SEA 5145 heat treated steel blade, handle joint tested to over 1200 lbs of force. weight, 1 1/2 lbs. Black Oxide finish and a nylon belt loop carrying pouch. Quite well made. Head is completely enclosed when folded, 7 1/4" x 4 1/4" when folded in pouch. Pax-Ax Inc. PO Box 407, Maple Valley Washington 98038.
 
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A few years back Gerber tried to come out with a similar folding hatchet design. The dang thing looked like Optimus Prime's leg and didn't strike me as trustworthy at all. From what I can recall it looked like there were more moving parts than on the Pac-Ax. They discontinued it before it even went into production. :p
 
Having to use small lightweight everything for use out of a light aircraft, just about all my camping/hunting/fishing gear is multi-piece or folding. The only thing I could fault it on is the thin profile of the metal handle if a lot of chopping was needed. I guess one could wrap it with something (cord), if to be used without folding for a period of time. Seems a shame that a U.S. company like Gerber has been bought by foreign Fiskars, whose X7 I use in base camps. However, if I felt the need to carry an axe to process wood for my Solo wood stove, while on foot, I'd, take the Pac-AX.
 
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