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Soviet survival Axe

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DC AFG

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Hi,
About 15 - 20 yrs ago there was an axe solid in Australia army disposal shops. It was reputed to be made in the Soviet union with a number of additional tools built in. Opposite the axe was a hammer and the centre shaft at nthe top could be used as a pry bar or to lift nails. It no more than about 12 inches long and appear fairly rough and rugged. I am not sure how well it functioned.

Does any one know of them and whether they were of any use? I haven't seen them in years and wonder if anyone knows if they are still available.

cheers

DC
 
Is this it -

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Supposing it is - As much as I believe pricing is used to manipulate suckers into believing a product is good I suspect at $12.95 this is not going to be fantastic.

Quality wise I think my little Estwing roofing / riggers thing would be miles better save for the lever feature. That said, a reason Estwings suck is that it is very hard to choke up on the head without an amazing amount of discomfort. Working on the idea that it is about £10 GBP I think I'd much prefer a cheap hatchet from a farm outlet store.
 
last time i saw one of those it had wooden handles and the guy at the midland military markets was selling `em . the markets burned down , and they suspected arson last i heard
 
Thanks, yes, very smilar. It looked like a piece of junk at the time but it was so long ago... I have a couple of Wettings 10" belt axes coming. I also have a Granfors Bruks Forrest axe (Though have not had a chance to use it yet).
I saw a girl using one to chip ice from a driveway in Kabul 2 years ago so I assume they were originally soviet issue. No chance to stop at the time; on task...
 
For what it's worth, all of these are based on the old Bridgeport Hardware "tomahawk" tool that's atleast 50-75 years old. Almost all of the new ones I've seen are Chinese made.

An older, but nice Bridgeport runs $25-35. Much better quality, but still a goofy design.
 
The ones I saw (with wooden handles) were made in China...not Russia. The store I work at in the summers USED to be an army/navy surplus store and there's some old stock the previous owner had lying around--a couple of boxes of those crappy things included. No temper to the things. At all. It's like what you'd get if a good axe got pregnant while on holiday in Chernobyl. :barf:

Can't speak for the quality of the rubber handled ones, but they're probably just a small step up due to the different handle.
 
I have one of these little suckers.... think we got it on fleaBay for $9.99 shipped. Nothing wonderful, nor did we expect anything but a pot metal piece of crap. But... we each have one in our cars... they happen to work really well for breaking up ice... never actually tried to use it to chop wood or anything, thou I guess it would work with in limits.... rubber handle tends to slide off as it is being used, I just epoxied it on, then did a paracord wrap around it.

Like I said, I mostly use mine to break ice off the front steps and such.. it works..
 
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