Lanyard?

I've been playing with a Cold steel norse hawk/axe with a lanyard and I like it. The only thing you have to watch out for is losing your grip and having it come back at you. I wrap it around my wrist pretty tightly, the jute wrap helps with the grip. All the cutting competition knives have a forward lanyard to prevent it from coming back at you but I was worried that the haft might break so I went for a back lanyard. Probably safer without in reality.

Regards

Robin

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Ridge-Runner said:
Anyone use a laynard on a axe or is there a danger factor that I am unaware of?
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The GB has a hole at the end of the handle. Although, I was thinking it is intended as hanging hole for like a pegboard. I would think a wrist lanyard (like on a Machete) would be more likely to injure a wrist rather them save from other injury or damage if the axe slips from your hand.
 
Yeah - a lanyard on an axe is a bad idea. Should it slip, you want it swinging out of your hands and away from you, not flipping around attached to your wrist. There's a lot more weight, leverage and momentum associated with an axe than a knife and the slip might throw you off balance. That combined with the axe still being attached to you can most certainly lead to injury. A much more crucial safety feature is a swell-knob, or (if it's on a straight haft axe or tomahawk) some sort of wrapping at the bottom, like a turks head knot to act as a swell. Even more crucial is knowing your limitations - stop before you tire yourself out or if your palms start getting sweaty.

A lanyard is still somewhat feasible on a small hatchet or larger knife, but if you use one, use it properly! Around the thumb and then the back of the hand - not simply around the wrist! This allows the blade to swing following the lanyard and lessens the chance of it hitting you (1m5s - forget how to set a time in embedded videos):
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I have some para cord though the hole in my GB and Wetterlings hatchets, but mostly just to have some string,or wrap the handle,but not around my wrist. don't want it coming back at me if I slip.

Pat
 
Yea I was thinking it was a bad idea but figured they had a laynard hole there for something. Hanging it up I guess.
 
I think it may be beneficial for a small hatchet, say the GB Wildlife and smaller. Probably not a good idea on an axe of any size. I see benefit of a lanyard on a hawk as in combat it ensures you dont loose your weapon in battle:D.
 
For breaching purposes it's a good idea - your buddies will appreciate it anyway. As for your own personal safety, I'm finding that a higher lanyard point (well above the hand) not only makes a lanyard safer to use if you lose your grip, but also can be tensioned to provide better control - you see ice climbers doing this with ice axes.
RMJ
 
RMJ Tactical said:
For breaching purposes it's a good idea - your buddies will appreciate it anyway. As for your own personal safety, I'm finding that a higher lanyard point (well above the hand) not only makes a lanyard safer to use if you lose your grip, but also can be tensioned to provide better control - you see ice climbers doing this with ice axes.
RMJ
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I use a Winkler Hawk for CQC and some breeching activities, like window braking and forcing open Wood framed doors. It’s a very small hawk perfect for tight spaces and it fits right on my riffle plate carrier.
And yes you are right on the money,:thumbup: the lanyard is a very good idea, it keeps the hawk from fling out of your hands and hitting some one that’s stacked behind or next to you during a door breaching.

We have a Halligan bar, battering ram and we do some times use detcord and plastic explosives but only when we are dealing whit reinforced entrances. But my hawks gets used more than any of them because the hawk is what I always have at hand. . The hawk is easy to use and carry, and its one hell of a man stopper when its in trained hands.

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