Help me identify this mini hatchet

[RevDevil]

My floppy disk say watch your language as this is a family forum.

 

[Mecha]

Americans perfected wood-cutting technology:

 

[Kevin Houtzager]

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[300Six]

Why not ?
If America hadn't adopted and perfected the poll axe concept it wouldn't be known today.
Everyone knows how well poll axes perform because of all the giant sequoias or hickory trees we use them on here.

Say what? 8 foot conifer Christmas trees and windfalls are the realm of chopping experience for the vast majority of us these days. It's been at least 100 years since anyone was paid (or tried to make money) for chopping down a commercially marketable tree. Stand beside the General Sherman Sequoia in California, with whatever puny axe you have on hand, and you'll quickly throw in the towel about bright ideas of actually being capable (or even having the stamina) to fall something like that.

 

[Kevin Houtzager]

x

 

[Hickory n steel]

Say what? 8 foot conifer Christmas trees and windfalls are the realm of chopping experience for the vast majority of us these days. It's been at least 100 years since anyone was paid (or tried to make money) for chopping down a commercially marketable tree. Stand beside the General Sherman Sequoia in California, with whatever puny axe you have on hand, and you'll quickly throw in the towel about bright ideas of actually being capable (or even having the stamina) to fall something like that.

Obviously we don't use axes on them anymore, I miss typed.

 

[Square_peg]

Of course there are still a lot of big trees in America: Before Europeans arrived American Indians where living in the stone ages and didn't have tools to chop the big ones

Perhaps 4% of our old growth forests remain. Stone tools or not the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest were able to fall large cedars and split them into planks and regularly did so.

 

[Moonw]

Moonw, check your email.

Just about to, was MIA for a while.

 

[300Six]

Perhaps someday I will have the opportunity to own custom fitted wooden shoes. I imagine the number of people with the skill to make these gets significantly smaller with each passing year.

A local lad of Dutch origin is making klompen as a retirement hobby to augment his meagre pension. He had taken a shine to the trade when he was much younger (in the 1950s) and laid in all of the (there aren't very many) necessary hand tools but now that he's taken it seriously is constantly invited to craft shows and country fairs to exhibit his talent and handiwork.