Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.

I love this thread.
Nice shots, cooperhill. Did you save any of that white oak? makes decent hafts, I think. I have a gorgeous white oak boken and would like to make one myself... the curly bits can make nice knife scales (if you're willing to wait for it to dry).
 
Square_peg said:
Can't argue with the results. Ya done good! And thanks for clearing the trail.
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Awesome!!! Another Arborist on bladeforums :D
 
The newly hung 1.75lb Warren is an awesome portable limber! up to 2" it just rocks. 3 is doable, 4+ is really stretching it...

evidence of all of the above :) :

a 20' maple branch up the street. too big to move, but not worth bothering with the saw:

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a 4"+ downed limb in the neighbor's backyard, much deader/drier. Hoo boy, that's more work, eh?

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The edge held up well. I stropped it, ballistol'd it, teak-oiled the handle, and put it away. Awesome!
 
Greetings from Poland!
[video=youtube;f2cicx9NJ8k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cicx9NJ8k[/video]
 
I love it too, but because of the beard it is not a suitable for chopping wood. When i hit sth with the lower part of the beard theres a huge stress that may damage the helve. Especially when using full force.
Here we go with a smaller axe. I dont know why but it has not been heat treated at all :(
[video=youtube;bGbxlCKXPRg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbxlCKXPRg[/video]
 
Pindvin said:
I love it too, but because of the beard it is not a suitable for chopping wood. When i hit sth with the lower part of the beard theres a huge stress that may damage the helve. Especially when using full force.
Here we go with a smaller axe. I dont know why but it has not been heat treated at all :(
[video=youtube;bGbxlCKXPRg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbxlCKXPRg[/video]
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I did notice it bouncing off the bite when you were chopping in your first video. What is the bevel on that axe..single or each side? That looked like a workout, I would have been wheezing and puffing early into that log.
The second axe really worked well, lots more bite and no bounce.
 
The bevels are on each side. I think that the convex is just a lil bit too thick. I'll fix that later.
Heres part two.
[video=youtube;Vog4wGfSjUU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vog4wGfSjUU[/video]
Here we go with a pulaski axe.
[video=youtube;4AIO-jDJgok]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIO-jDJgok[/video]
 
I decided to cut down a large side piece of our maple tree that overhung the front yard too much. The large axe in the stump that I used for the main cutting is a Wetterlings felling axe. The smaller one in front is a Wetterlings small hunting axe that I used to make garden stakes for my wife and then clean up the stump on the maple tree.EC328F15-8573-46CC-B51F-66CE8385543F-279-0000001903CF39D1.jpg
 
Old Mann Connecticut, doing what it does best. Dang splitting MACHINE.

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-Daizee
 
I've been out on another trail project these past two weekends up on Tiger Mtn. We're repairing a section of trail where a blow down's root ball ripped out the trail. Last weekend was cold and wet. This weekend was unbelievably cold and wet. We were working just below the snow line.

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The fallen tree left a huge hole in the trail. We're building a cedar log stairway up one side of the hole to re-connect the trail.

Sorry for the fogged up lens.

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Here's the blown down root ball sticking up in the air.

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My co-worker is notching a cedar log, part of a retaining wall, to receive a smaller cedar log step. He's using a very sharp boy's axe. We're using local blow down cedar from just 150' up the trail.

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Here's yours truly preparing to drill a pilot hole for a galvanized spike. Did I mention that it was slushing, rain/snow mix all day and f'ing muddy as heck?

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Here I'm drilling the last tread so I can toenail it to the wall with a spike. The opposite end gets staked to the ground with a piece of rebar. I notched the tread so that it can bear on the log and I cut a shoulder on the log to receive the tread. This was mostly done with a hatchet.

All of this wood was cut with hand saws, crosscuts, Corona's and my Tajima. Then it was peeled with drawknives to slow the rot.

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Dang that don't look like it was fun any more. Seems like things just take longer when the weather gets nasty.
 
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