Which 3 axes would you keep from your collection?

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greggski

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Hey all, it as just enjoying an adult beverage and looking through my axe collection and started playing a game of trying to chose which 3 axe i would keep as users/keep sakes and why. I was just interested in what my fellow axeophiles would chose.

So what would you keep?

Cheers!
 
Currently I'm leaning towards a 4# tru temper kelly works double in a western pattern for a felling ,bucking axe. A NOrlund 2.5# house/camp axe on a 31" handle for all around user and a Plumb cedar pattern 1 3/4# harden poll hatchet on a 18" handle for pack carrying,kindling, basic carving axe. List is subject to change depending on which direction the wind is blowing.....
 
1. Kelly Works True Temper Pulaski
2. Hand Forged Axeroon; by Paul K.
3. Plumb Rigger's Hatchet

My collection is quite humble. :o
 
Plumb cedar 3 lb
Collins boys
Collins Pulaski

love the twisted head on the Collins Pulaski.
 
This is seriously tough, shouldn't be but it is.

As it sits currently probably my Mann Edge Tool Co True American boys axe, Kelly Woodslasher hatchet, and Craftsman mini hatchet. This is assuming that my DB would go to my MIL as it belonged to her father. The reality is there are only a few that I can say I wouldn't really miss.
 
Collector axes that I've used and enjoyed were replaced with less valuable (namely readily available) counterparts over the past 40 years. Of course even those axes are now 25+ years old. Stupidity on my part since none of them were NOS (or even close) but that's what happened. Pulpwood (boys) axe for utility chopping/limbing work and a Pulaski for dirty work and splitting. A miner/construction/rafting axe would have been really nice to have had 30 years ago when I was cutting trees, chopping roots, preparing foundations and building retaining walls.
 
Yeesh, this shouldn't be so hard. I'd go with my vintage 5lb Helko falling axe on a 30" handle, a Plumb boys axe with a relatively thick grind for ground work or splitting small (8 or 9") pieces, and my Collins hatchet on a 16" handle.
 
I would keep my Rixford cruiser, my trojan boys axe, and my 3.5 lb mountaineer maine wedge pattern.
 
quinton said:
Not one single bit! pun intended.:p
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Boo! Hiss!

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tobiism said:
Kelly, Collins, Plumb
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At least now you will know the bottom one (the Plumb) is a 'National' pattern which was first introduced to the buying public in about 1948. The poll on these isn't hardened in the sense of rafting/construction/miner heads is but it is large with bevelled edges for pounding wedges and stakes and was advertised as such. I'm presuming your's is the 'boys' (2 1/4 lb) version.
 
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300Six said:
At least now you will know the bottom one (the Plumb) is a 'National' pattern which was first introduced to the buying public in about 1948. The poll on these isn't hardened in the sense of rafting/construction/miner heads is but it is large with bevelled edges for pounding wedges and stakes and was advertised as such. I'm presuming your's is the 'boys' (2 1/4 lb) version.
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Thanks, it's the 1.75lb version.
 
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