Hatchets

[Dilligaf2u2]

I have never had a hawk. (Hopping into my way back machine) My grand father gave me a Ewing hatchet. Now we are talking over 25 years I have carried it when out and about. This is one of the old High Carbon (NON) stainless steel hatchets.

I was out not long ago and watches a kid clearing a place to set his tent. He had a hawk but had no idea they are not made to chop dirt and rocks. It was not long before he has changed the edge into a hammer.

I carried a Military folding shovel for a long time, for clearing brush. The new Cold steel shovel, my dear wife got me last spring, has worked out well for this.

My Point: A good hatchet or hawk should last a life time. If we do not teach these weekend Rambo's and weekend warriors. Who will? There is a right way to chop a log and a right way to treat a tool! Our hawks or hatchets are tools! Not meant to chop down Forest's. Meant for chopping wood for fires and clearing brush. Defense if it comes to that. Ok, Ok, Pounding tent stakes too! Least we forget helping with processing game!

My Grand dad would rather have his hatchet then the best knife he owned when out and about! He even tough us to go camping in the ruff of upper Michigan without knives.


Maybe some day, I will find a high carbon hawk, and give it a try. Till then the old Ewing is always strapped to my pack, where I know, I can find it.

Thanks, Grand Dad!

Dill

 

[siguy]

it drives me nuts when i see some idiot misusing and abusing a tool. like this one time i was hanging out with this twelve year old kit outside of a grocery store waiting for someone and he pulls out an old, worn out SAK. the blade is incredibly sharp though, whoever gave it to him knew what they were doing. he took the point of the knife (rounded at this point) and just scraped it down a groove in teh cement. i flipped out on him. even if it is just a lowly SAK, a good tool should never be treated that way.

i believe the cold steel hawks are high carbon...the experts can give you a better place to start looking though i am sure.

it drives me nuts when people try to use the wrong tool for the job.

 

[english mark]

Good post...I've got to admit ,i've been a knife user for years but last year my wife bought me a GB hatchet witch i have used well and been very impressed with. If it came down to chosing between my knives and hatchet the hatchet would win, such a versatile tool, i have found the more i use it the more competent i get with it. I'll be carrying mine for years to come.