Photos Show me your Hults Bruk

Here's one I picked up at an estate sale some years back. I flipped it. Made good money at the time but I kind of regret selling it now.

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^ Plus your Montreal ax has substantial metal around the eye. Was it a 4 lb. with hardened poll? DM
 
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It might be a European pattern, my Hulks Bruk is a Montreal pattern. I have been researching old catalogues , trying to track down my scrap iron's origins . I wish I could show you a photo. My skill set doesn't include computers. The front has the gentle sweep of a Canadian pattern, but instead of the steep sweep on the back, it has that straight angle. My 1.5 / 3 1/2 is 4 3/4" x 7 3/4".

Thanks Square Peg, I watched the Wisconsin logging vid, then I saw the Squamish historical society's one on west coast logging. There was a rigger dragging a swamping axe like mine up a tree to turn it into a spar. I had to stop it a few times to check.
 
Downwindtracker2 said:
It might be a European pattern, my Hulks Bruk is a Montreal pattern. I have been researching old catalogues , trying to track down my scrap iron's origins . I wish I could show you a photo. My skill set doesn't include computers. The front has the gentle sweep of a Canadian pattern, but instead of the steep sweep on the back, it has that straight angle. My 1.5 / 3 1/2 is 4 3/4" x 7 3/4".

Thanks Square Peg, I watched the Wisconsin logging vid, then I saw the Squamish historical society's one on west coast logging. There was a rigger dragging a swamping axe like mine up a tree to turn it into a spar. I had to stop it a few times to check.
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Yes, you will find the pattern in one of Walter's catalogues , only since it originated with another firm, I think they called it Quebec pattern instead. I didn't bother to bookmark, rather just smiled. The Walter version has more of a straight front, though. I had bought mine new in the late '70s when I moved north. It was a big event in my life, a good axe . It was expensive, over $40. BTW they still import them, the local logging equipment dealer sells them, they are only $100 . Same pattern.

I think a poster called 300Six ? has posted on Canadian axe manufactures histories.
 
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Agent_H said:
Here is a 4lb HB I picked on the coast a while back.

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I often need to remind myself that logging is really big here on the coast and that some of the loggers use really high end tools. Yeah, mostly I see lower end Councils, Collins and Mann but every once in a while you see the high end stuff.
Just like knives, ya see 90 truck stop folders and then notice the guy with the Sebenza.
 
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The addiction is real. I had to pick up a 4 pounder that was in the same condition as my 3.5 pounder and thanks to Agent_H I now have a beautiful 1.5 pounder to hang.
 
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