Lets see some of your favorite hatchets

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J Yerkes Dec 23 1864
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Vaughan sub zero.
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Even though the new ( recently discontinued ) examples are profiled better I'd love to score a vintage example, but people always think they're salesman samples or just very rare so they command a premium.
They're pretty common really , but people don't seem to realize.
 
New hobby since since a few months ago. Some of these heads I found for just $1. Almost all of them were pretty trashed.

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EngrSorenson said:
Here's three variations on my favorite, the Council Tools Flying Fox.
I was looking for recommendations and this forum came through.
I love this sucker.
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bottom two rehung? oal of longest? I have the shortest factory version 16", if i recall. I've used it a good deal limbing deadfall. wonder how it is on a longer handle?
 
Southern Appalachia said:
bottom two rehung? oal of longest? I have the shortest factory version 16", if i recall. I've used it a good deal limbing deadfall. wonder how it is on a longer handle?
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19 inches and 28 inches respectively. I find that 19 inches is a good fit. 28 inches is fun and easy to really swing hard, but I can get that sucker really jammed in a log if I’m not careful and give it a good thwack. It’s like a light boys axe.

I’d almost hung one on a spare 36 inch straight haft, just for the fun of it, but after 28 inches I can safely say I’m probably not buying myself anything with the extra length.
 
EngrSorenson said:
19 inches and 28 inches respectively. I find that 19 inches is a good fit. 28 inches is fun and easy to really swing hard, but I can get that sucker really jammed in a log if I’m not careful and give it a good thwack. It’s like a light boys axe.

I’d almost hung one on a spare 36 inch straight haft, just for the fun of it, but after 28 inches I can safely say I’m probably not buying myself anything with the extra length.
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The 19" range seems pretty good, I gotta have an even 20".
For some reason 19" bugs me, every other axe handle to be found will be an even number and the fact that handles to be found are 19" never 20" is just plain odd.
 
Hickory n steel said:
The 19" range seems pretty good, I gotta have an even 20".
For some reason 19" bugs me, every other axe handle to be found will be an even number and the fact that handles to be found are 19" never 20" is just plain odd.
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13 inch hatchet handles don’t bother you? 😜
 
EngrSorenson said:
Eeesh… this one’s really gonna bother you, Hick…

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Not really.

If I buy a standard length handle I don't obsess over the finished length when hung, I think my issue really is just that 19" strikes me as an odd length to make a handle.
 
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Can't say it's my favorite but it's likely my most used, Stubai carpenter's hatchet, single bevel, right handed. It's my stump axe. Mostly used for sharpening and driving garden stakes. 1-3/4 lbs is fine for driving wood stakes. Kinda wish I'd grabbed a left handed one at the same time I bought this. They're not available anymore. But I think Mueller still sells one.

My favorite is an old True Temper claw hatchet re-hung on a 17" riggers axe handle.

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