Preferences for a Kindling Axe

[Maine20]

Here’s one from left field. Council tool El Lobo. I have one hung on a 26 inch handle and have been using it to make kindling for 3 or 4 years now. The bit is super fat, pretty much useless for cross cutting, but it works great for kindling. It hangs on the wall beside a wide variety of axes, all shapes and sizes. From time to time I grab another axe and try it but always go back to the el lobo, it just works well for me. I think it weighs 1 3/4 pounds.

For overstrike protection I like fiber fix. I have a maul that I put it on and it has worked amazing, highly recommend it as a handle saver.

 

[thunderstick]

Do you have any pics of the fiber fix protection?

 

[Maine20]

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Do you have any pics of the fiber fix protection?

think I posted a pic of my maul a while back. If I can’t find it I will take another.

 

[Maine20]

Do you have any pics of the fiber fix protection?

Here’s the fiber fix on my 6lbs maul. It’s filled the wood shed 3-4 times. Taken some serious hits with no damage. I personally would only use this on a dedicated splitter.

 

[thunderstick]

Thank you. I never used this product before and will need to look into it more.

 

[thunderstick]

You get me checking out tapes. I came across this testing.

 

[Maine20]

Thank you. I never used this product before and will need to look into it more.

It’s interesting stuff. This is the one and only time I have used it so I am no expert. It sets up hard like fiber glass but seems tougher, it’s not like standard tape.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

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[thunderstick]

I use leather impregnated with boiled pure beeswax under the hockey tape on a dedicated splitter. I use contact cement to glue it on. After applying the boiling beeswax it shrinks the leather super tight and makes it very hard. The hockey tape is the replaceable sacrifice layer.

 

[Pilsner]

The axe I use, my only axe to be honest, not counting a hatchet, is the Hultafors classic forest axe. It is, as the name implies, a bastardised hybrid, neither fish nor fowl. However, it does a good job at cross cutting - I have felled small trees with it - and a pretty fair job of chopping seasoned logs for kindling. It’s really for the woods, but I use it at home for firewood. One of these days I’ll buy a new axe, but, if it ain’t broke...