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So I was reading through another thread about a newly hung axe that broke and it reminded me of the only time Ive seen an axe fail.
More recently if I think it is going out I just go ahead and grab another axe until I can re-halft the problem child.
I thought it would be neat to post stories about time we, or other's near us, have broken their axe's.
So I will start.
When I was young and belonged to Boy Scouts, before they banned fixed knives and axes, we were out camping (East Texas, perhaps Oklahoma) and someone brought along their father's axe. We all thought it cool and designated an area to the side of camp to rope off for limbing downed trees and splitting wood.
A bunch of us were sitting around the smouldering cook fire when one of the older scouts decided they wanted to try to split some of the deadfall wood we had found.
Not 5 minutes passed before the head on the axe came loose and somehow flew through camp skipping across the ground and ending up near the cook fire.
I still I am not sure how one would swing an axe and not realize that the head was loose, nor how someone could get a axe head to skip across the ground like that. A 3 pound spinning blade of death, although sounding cool, is not something you want to personally witness.
However, we did all agree that it was pretty darn scary and that perhaps it was best if we stuck with the firewood we already had and not chance getting the adults involved in the situation.
That was the last of axes in my boyscout troop. We all agreed that they were too heavy and too difficult for any of us to use.
Later in that trip we had a kid try to play tiddly winks with his Swiss army knife and a tree. He would throw his knife at the tree, retrieve the knife a try to throw from a little bit closer. He never did get his SAK stuck into the tree. But he did achieve the rare feat of bouncing the knife off the tree and getting the SAK stuck about 2" into his belly.
We had to get the adults involved in that one.
More recently if I think it is going out I just go ahead and grab another axe until I can re-halft the problem child.
I thought it would be neat to post stories about time we, or other's near us, have broken their axe's.
So I will start.
When I was young and belonged to Boy Scouts, before they banned fixed knives and axes, we were out camping (East Texas, perhaps Oklahoma) and someone brought along their father's axe. We all thought it cool and designated an area to the side of camp to rope off for limbing downed trees and splitting wood.
A bunch of us were sitting around the smouldering cook fire when one of the older scouts decided they wanted to try to split some of the deadfall wood we had found.
Not 5 minutes passed before the head on the axe came loose and somehow flew through camp skipping across the ground and ending up near the cook fire.
I still I am not sure how one would swing an axe and not realize that the head was loose, nor how someone could get a axe head to skip across the ground like that. A 3 pound spinning blade of death, although sounding cool, is not something you want to personally witness.
However, we did all agree that it was pretty darn scary and that perhaps it was best if we stuck with the firewood we already had and not chance getting the adults involved in the situation.
That was the last of axes in my boyscout troop. We all agreed that they were too heavy and too difficult for any of us to use.
Later in that trip we had a kid try to play tiddly winks with his Swiss army knife and a tree. He would throw his knife at the tree, retrieve the knife a try to throw from a little bit closer. He never did get his SAK stuck into the tree. But he did achieve the rare feat of bouncing the knife off the tree and getting the SAK stuck about 2" into his belly.
We had to get the adults involved in that one.
