Lets use those axes for what they were ment for.

[trailtime]

Yes

PATC? They're active in NVA.

 

[FLINT77]

Sorry, yes, PATC

 

[J.seaux]

My nephew and I cut a few trees. He swung the double bit Sager, but he really took a liking to the Connecticut. I wussed out and used the Stihl 291. Got a big Locust to drop next weekend I’ll load photos.

 

[J.seaux]

Does anyone here use climbing spikes that could share some knowledge. I’m new to spikes but have repelling experience. Thank’s

 

[trailtime]

Sorry, yes, PATC

I was with PATC for over 20 years. A lot of my posts are from Shenandoah NP trails. Chopping that Michigan softwood now.

 

[kwantam]

Yesterday's work (and text describing it):

https://imgur.com/a/fcfxTjs

(Sorry for the imgur album rather than a direct post here...)

 

[Square_peg]

My nephew and I cut a few trees. He swung the double bit Sager, but he really took a liking to the Connecticut. I wussed out and used the Stihl 291. Got a big Locust to drop next weekend I’ll load photos.

If it's black locust you might want to save some for handle stock.

 

[SwedeFP]

Got out one decent day with my newly hafted
Kelly 5 pounder (marked 6 on underside of poll) on about a 34 inch handle. This is a fine chopper and splitter, and handles hickory quite well.
SwedeFP

 

[EngrSorenson]

Mucking around a bit with a trunk of a tree I couldn’t finish processing before the weather got bitterly cold. The Cordwood Challenge takes a while. Can’t let a new axe stay new though!

 

[SwedeFP]

Nice chopping! What axe is that one?

 

[EngrSorenson]

Nice chopping! What axe is that one?

Thank you for the kind words! It’s the FortyTwoBlades-designed Woox Forte axe. It’s a fun axe to swing.

 

[flexo]

today was an other axe day! well to be fair: hatchet day! i made kindling for a start; to burn in the fire pit. then i swap for my carving one, to make a maul haft, i also used a froe, a drawknife, a sort of rasp /plane (made by stanley" no connexion")then; i went to the forest: i picked up my bushcraft hatchet, i harvested punk wood to make amadou, then i picked up a real amadouvier fungus. i managed to make an carve several things out there... no axe involved today , my fire wood is allready stacked for winter! however i fell a birch yesterday iand i did no so well it has been to long since i did it!

 

[Gato do mato]

sites de upload de imagens

 

[gregm32768]

This is an old dayton pattern head of unknown manufacture. 40+ yrs ago the handle broke off and I tried using it as a wedge with the apparent results. My dad grouched at me at the time and the head got lost in the back of the shed. We're cleaning all that out now, and I found it- so cleaned it up and hung it on a 34" haft to make up for the neglect of ages ago. No idea about the manufacturer, it feels like 4 lbs or so- but works fine I've been using it after breaking rounds down to quarters- its fast and pleasantly accurate compared to the 5lb Council which does hit harder on the big stuff. I have a couple other old heads waiting for hafts.

I prep the hafts by soaking them overnight in linseed oil, then wipe off and fully submerge just the head in more of it for a 2nd night. Once thats all done I give the haft a quick scrub with steel wool so its smooth.

I like having the heavy sledge w/ wedges and maul handy, then smaller lighter axes for the finer work. More stuff to carry out of the shed when the time comes for splitting but I like the clinking of the heads knocking together as I walk

 

[Mick Boardman]

French boarding axe,I still have not used this for its intended purpose.

 

[rockman0]

Storms came through back in the spring and blew the tops out of my sugar maple in my backyard, messed up a good shade tree.

 

[Mick Boardman]

I have a few hatchet/axes and this Rune was no disappointment even if it is my least expensive piece I own. It did a spectacular job of shaping this handle on my froe club.