Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.

Yes, it is.
Picked up at the lopis 10€
One, almost unused up on tradera just now maybe for you.
The angle is 20 degrees maybe less and fairly flat.

E.DB.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
Yes, it is.
Picked up at the lopis 10€
One, almost unused up on tradera just now maybe for you.
The angle is 20 degrees maybe less and fairly flat.

E.DB.
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Haha, at the loppis! Thats awesome, good price too.
I have one like it (mine has a nicer handle, though :)) with maybe around a 20 or so edge. The steel continue to surprise me, though, and I will bring it down some more as it has no problem with the work I do.
I dont see the one on tradera. I would like another one to experiment with, maybe bring the edge on one down as much as possible and keep one a little fatter for rougher work.
 
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Look good it's there I see after checking, hundred seventy-five kr no bid.
Seems unused.
K, you have got me obsessing about Willy Jonssons yxa.

E.DB.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
Look good it's there I see after checking, hundred seventy-five kr no bid.
Seems unused.
K, you have got me obsessing about Willy Jonssons yxa.

E.DB.
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Hmm, still dont see it.
Yes, daskebackarn! Ive been thinking about that one and reading up on it a bit. Before you posted that place that sells them I didnt know they were available. The only ones I had seen were the old Skog ones and they cost a fortune and a half.

http://www.sangbergkonstsmide.se/in...a-artiklar/88-hjaertumyxan-i-hemsloejden.html

Interview with Willy Jonsson
 
In light of all the crap going on in Boston (where i work), I headed up to the mountains to clear some more blowdowns.

Used my flint edge CT today:



14" birch





through



plate:



american beech.

 
Me and my cat chopping it up

[video=youtube;SD8uq7cQFK0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8uq7cQFK0[/video]
 
[video=youtube;eYBOA4vvP3w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBOA4vvP3w&list=HL1368109657[/video]
 
Hi guys. I'm dead new here. Just starting out in doing some bushcraft after a few years spent hunting and a bunch of years mountain biking and nature walking/hiking/camping. Guess you could say I'm into the outdoors.

Here's my first real axe doing what I bought it for.

I will say that it's not great for chopping even smaller logs, but it's not really all that bad. I'm just planning a bigger axe for heftier work. I'm only planning to use this one for carving, some light limbing and a few other small jobs around camp.

Pics (if they'll work):



 
Last week was 90°. This week, a cold front moved in. It was in the high 50s Friday so I went back to mom n dads to split more of the oak tree I didn't finish last winter.

Had to cut up the rounds first. The Husky did fine as always.

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After seeing some of what you guys post, I'd really like to try out a heavy splitting axe instead of my big box store 8 lb maul.


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Good work, Coop. There are few tasks more enjoyable then clearing a tree off the trail with an axe.
 
Using my axe for something other than what it was meant for but taking on a posture of empathy I thought of putting it to the test. While this is a favored one for removing gross waste in hewing, also known in the jargon as juggling, I had not used it for trimming let alone getting in there close to the line.

But with a good deal of choking-up, cutting to the line is not a problem. The problems are twofold, namely maintaining verticality and the concave surface left behind on the edge of the plank.

The plank right having been trimmed with the double bitted, the other trimmed with a flatter bitted. The rough places indicating where the cut came to a stop with the flatter bitted axe, the apparently smoother edge showing how the double bitted automatically exits its own cut.
The thickness behind the cutting edge, that is to say the bevel and the cheek, provides a measure of security because this leads to the blade naturally wanting to exit the cut instead if diving and possibly going deeper than desired, or beyond the line. Cutting that way you get in effect a wave pattern along the edge. Still one can work fast. This being offset though when it comes time to joint the edge as the high corners have to be taken down and more time taken to square it up.

E.DB.
 
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