what was your first hang/axe?

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phantomknives

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mine was a generic jersey i got for $5. it had 1 screw 3 nails and 2 fencing nails i had to pick out, how bout yours?
 
Years ago a friend inherited his fathers axe. It was a mess. I did everything without power tools. Removed the rust, fixed the mushrooming on the poll. Polished it up. Just put a second handle on it and re did the bit a couple of weeks ago(chips and dents from the daughter learning on grandfathers axe). This time no metal just a single wooden wedge and some handle left above the head. It was nice to see how much I have learned.
 
Typically the axe (or shovel or rake or hammer) that many of us first attempt a fix on is one from our father that broke through carelessness or exuberance. My dad never threw anything away and a busted axe would just sit there by the front door crying for attention so as to compound the guilt.
 
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I was about 13 years old and found a old double bit axe head in the garage or barn one of the out buildings. I scrapped up enough money to buy a new handle and me and my brothers where instant lumberjacks. We had used axes plenty actually logging red pine. My uncle welded a pickaroon pick onto a single bit axe head and we used it to bunch the small red pine top logs into piles by hand and nock off the short stobs that stick out of red pine. So we could pick the pile up with a cable jammer and boom welded to the back of a 1010 John Deere crawler and a homemade dump drae wagon we pulled behind it. Oh the memories from from my youth, many lunches spent thawing out our frozen sandwiches in the exhaust from that old crawler so you could take a bite. There is nothing like the sound of an old two cylinder John Deere pucka packa..............pucka pucka
 
As far as axes go, it was dad's Vaughan Supersteel 3 1/2. I've done a few carpenter's hammers before that.






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An old worn Plumb Connecticut that was loose on a handle of good form. Bought it as a young teen for something like $10 and decided to rehang it on a straight axe-eye maul handle from the local hardware store. It was the only sized handle they had that had a big enough tongue to fit the eye. I was able to wedge it well, but it later busted horizontally along the shoulder because it was pretty poor quality wood and the thick bit geometry subjected the handle to a lot of shock. I mostly used it for splitting work anyhow, and continued to use it for quite some time after the handle cracked by using a couple of wood screws to hold it together. Luckily I saved the old handle (which had pretty bad grain alignment despite its nice shape and otherwise sound condition) for template use and still occasionally use it for referencing dimensions. The head is pretty far gone to the point where I wouldn't have bought it if I saw it again in the store with the eyes I have now. The bit would need a lot of thinning down and the eye has hairline cracks in an "X" pattern (NE, SE, NW, SW) but it worked well enough for my purposes at the time
 
Kansaswoodguy said:
I was about 13 years old and found a old double bit axe head in the garage or barn one of the out buildings. I scrapped up enough money to buy a new handle and me and my brothers where instant lumberjacks. We had used axes plenty actually logging red pine. My uncle welded a pickaroon pick onto a single bit axe head and we used it to bunch the small red pine top logs into piles by hand and nock off the short stobs that stick out of red pine. So we could pick the pile up with a cable jammer and boom welded to the back of a 1010 John Deere crawler and a homemade dump drae wagon we pulled behind it. Oh the memories from from my youth, many lunches spent thawing out our frozen sandwiches in the exhaust from that old crawler so you could take a bite. There is nothing like the sound of an old two cylinder John Deere pucka packa..............pucka pucka
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This is a great post!
 
My very first was my great-grandfathers pre mann Collins homestead 3.5lb Michigan that my grandmother gave me, neither of the 2 handles I had hung it on were any good so I have decided to keep the head preserved in oil/beeswax until I have an actual need for a full sized axe. At which point I will hang it and put it to good use.
 
An unnamed 2 1/4 pound axe, which was also my first eBay purchase. I put it on a Canadian Tire handle and gave it to my son (so he would stop taking my axes camping and losing them). It looks poorly with shoulders that need sanding down and a metal wedge. I have offered to redo it, but he wants it just the way it is.
 
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