My work axe

Poke me in the eye man! You do have a dry sense of humour.
However: I see a couple of #3 Robertson (square drive) screw heads showing.
You Yanks to this day have never bought into Canadian Peter L. Robertson's 1908 patent for these superior fasteners, which makes me think that your 'work axe' is either an 'imported' item or perhaps industrialist Henry Ford's own personal whipping post (after P.L. turned him down) before he secured the manufacture rights, in 1918, to a lesser fastening product, from a California inventor by the name of Philips.
Just poking fun here too but it is curious that the relative-newcomer Torx system is merely a convoluted Robertson and only took another 80 years to catch on.
P.L. not only invented the very first self-aligning screw (only game in town was the 'slot screw' before that) but also the 'hardened driver bit' as well as colour-coding and a numbered system for screw and driver identification. Yellow handles or bits indicate a "#0", green is a "#1", "#2" (the most common of them all) is always red and black is the code for #3s.
 
The handle looks great. You haven't been driving enough wedges with the poll though. It's barely mushroomed.
 
It's perfect. When you open your hardware store you'll already have your first six months of stock sitting right there in your axe eye.
 
I reckon it might be, either a lot narrower than the ones I used or collapsed a bit- I'd say it is good to go then.

Bill
 
300Six said:
I see a couple of #3 Robertson (square drive) screw heads showing.
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Looks like a #2 Robbie to me. I think WorkSafe BC would say you need to drill down through the centre of that round wedge, install an expandable bismuth sleeve, and then run a nice plated lag bolt down into it with a fender washer on top. That would also cover the exposed screw heads so no claim could be filed later.

Alternatively, you can drill crosswise through the side of the eye wall and handle, drive a long nail through the sides of the eye, and peen it over on the other side.

Thought you were readin' my mail for a second. I just picked up a Kitchen Sink Special the other day -- a nice little Granfors 1 1/2 pound hatchet with five #2 Robbies holding it together. I passed on an axe with a cross-drilled head and the above-mentioned common nail "rivet."
 
Looking Good! I will just take your word for it that there is a washer or key under those nails and screws.
 
Skiv said:
Looks like a #2 Robbie to me. I think WorkSafe BC would say you need to drill down through the centre of that round wedge, install an expandable bismuth sleeve, and then run a nice plated lag bolt down into it with a fender washer on top. That would also cover the exposed screw heads so no claim could be filed later.
Alternatively, you can drill crosswise through the side of the eye wall and handle, drive a long nail through the sides of the eye, and peen it over on the other side.
Thought you were readin' my mail for a second. I just picked up a Kitchen Sink Special the other day -- a nice little Granfors 1 1/2 pound hatchet with five #2 Robbies holding it together. I passed on an axe with a cross-drilled head and the above-mentioned common nail "rivet."
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A Canuck and with a sense of humour. May-be a #2 Robbie (and very likely you are correct) but I had to say something. 3's are rare even here. Bismuth is fall-out from a Federal hunting program to encourage hunting geese. Steel beats all ballistically but doesn't kill anything and Bismuth is so expensive that ordinary Joes have stopped hunting.
 
Looks pretty darn solid actually ! What do I know, I'd probably try to drive a nail through the cheek. ;)
 
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