Longest handle?

olymon

olymon

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I saw a picture today of a group of guys siting by a huge sequoia tree they were working on. Two of the guys had axes that had handles that had to be about 50" long. The axe heads were probably 7" or more at the cutting edge. It would be fun to sink one of those in a tree, but maybe not all day long.
 
well, pugets had 40" handles normally due to a balance scale, 3 on a 32, 3.5 on a 36 and 4 on a 40. that mighta been a really heavy axe that deserved such a handle
 
olymon said:
I saw a picture today of a group of guys siting by a huge sequoia tree they were working on. Two of the guys had axes that had handles that had to be about 50" long. The axe heads were probably 7" or more at the cutting edge. It would be fun to sink one of those in a tree, but maybe not all day long.
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It's because they had to reach the center of the tree off a spring board. I have seen the vintage Puget sound patterns on them long hafts.
Last I knew Beaver tooth offered a 40".
 
I think they were pictured sitting on the spring boards. That would have been a seriously long day and weeks to cut it. The tree was over 8 guys wide siting side by side.
 
That was the now discontinued Wetterlings Excessively Large Forest Axe (ELFA). Bad grain orientation on some of those spoiled sales, and folks figured out they could do the same things with a large knife, which was more packable.

Seriously, I suspect there were some handles even longer in some cases, but obviously that is not very usable or useful in most cases.
 
42" was a common length for a Puget. My grandfathers Puget had a 42" haft. Most of the Pugets I owned had 42, some did have 36. Before Mr. Link died, the longest haft in the O.P. Link catalog that would fit a Puget was 42"
 
Old Axeman said:
42" was a common length for a Puget. My grandfathers Puget had a 42" haft. Most of the Pugets I owned had 42, some did have 36. Before Mr. Link died, the longest haft in the O.P. Link catalog that would fit a Puget was 42"
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Did your father use that Puget in Idaho or Montana?
 
I know some long ones like that one at 00:28,


But I think the actual longest ones are in the hands of Bihurri,

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Thank you K Kevin Houtzager . Bihurri owns five world records cutting big logs, I don't know anyone who has cut an equal or bigger log than the biggest Bihurri has cut.

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Here you have some information,

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Ernesto Ezpeleta “Bihurri”. Axeman specialized in big perimeter wood-chopping.

  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 5 m of perimeter in 3 hours 7m 48s – 4.797 strokes – World Record
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 2.52 m of perimeter with only one hand in 22 m 21 s – World Record
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 3 m of perimeter with only one hand in 1 h, 38 m 39 s – 3.163 axe strokes World Record
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 3,10 m of perimeter with only one hand in 1 h, 39 m 45 s – 3.850 axe strokes World Record
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 3,40 m of perimeter with only one hand in 2 h, 09 m 35 s – 2nd november 2013World Record
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 4.20 m of perimeter in 2h 22m 45s
  • Axe-cutting: a trunk of 3.50 m of perimeter in 50m 20s (Elgoibar 2008-12-26)"
Taking in account the diameter of the biggest log he has cut is 1,6 meters I calculate he will own at least one axe with at least 1,8 meters (70,8 inches) handle.

For more information,

http://www.bihurri.com/en/bihurri/
 
Yes Kevin, he is a specialist in that kind of works. Here you have him cutting a 3 meters in perimeter beech log with only one hand, as I shared before it took him 1 hour 38 minutes 39 seconds and 3163 swings

 
That's so cool, looking forward to one of these days getting up there to see some of this stuff with my own eyes :thumbsup::)
 
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