Which axe did you use today?

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Whether you threw your hawk, split some wood for the heater/cooker, carpentry or bowl carving, or may be you did some bush crafting, show what you picked to use and how you used it.

I cut and split some persimmon that came down in the storm a couple nights ago.
Limbed with the council tool boys axe.

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Cheapo 8lb maul form Lowes and the 4lb splitting axe I re-handled to a shorter hickory handle.

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Put up in the shed using the home made pickaroon.

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Nice to see axes and mauls being put to work rather than being shined and fawned over. I was going to use the word 'old' but that'll wait until your Flint Edge Jersey and "Brute" the antique appears in the lineup.
Persimmon doesn't grow up this way and I know nothing about it's properties; As a hardwood does it have any merit for future handle projects? Such as a straight haft for ole Brute?
 
300Six said:
Persimmon doesn't grow up this way and I know nothing about it's properties; As a hardwood does it have any merit for future handle projects? Such as a straight haft for ole Brute?
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Way too soft I think. Most of those rounds popped with just gravity working on the 4lb splitting axe. The few with branches I used the maul. I've never used it but it's supposed to have good flavor in the smoker. The shed is left to right; maple, oak, persimmon, hickory. Maple is sweet and mild. Oak is strong. Hickory, well, everyone loves hickory.


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Agent_H said:
You just need another Council Tool axe there for the other side of your truck.
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I'll probably post one in the hanging thread today. I picked one up yesterday at the antique junk shop. It has a thinner profile than that Lowes maul. May be I can retire the lowes to backup status.



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300Six said:
Nice to see axes and mauls being put to work rather than being shined and fawned over.
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Don't get me wrong. I admire the work you guys do to these old axes. I grab them whenever I get a chance. I also like seeing wood get cut. I split a truck load of red oak the other day. It smelled soooo good.



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.30WCF (30-30 Winchester) has been maligned by 'murrican gun rags and writers for almost a century and 'newbies' of today are becoming 'hot to trot' about silenced (namely even more powered-down) Soviet 7.62x39, which is distant cousin to ancient (1894) 30 WCF. Good for you! I love old stuff too and the 30-40 USA Springfield Krag I've been sitting in the bush with over the past 40 years has actually proven itself to be over-powered for white-tailed deer despite my colleagues trying to sucker me into upgrading. I like to see what I'm shooting at after I pull the trigger whereas a lot of modern stuff has me looking at the sky after the gun goes off.
 
Behind that doe's head stands a 1941 Model '94 with .30WCF stamped on the barrel.

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Does it actually say .30WCF or is it 30WCF? Interesting how proprietary cartridges came about. 0.308 (30 caliber) was adopted by the US military in 1892 and commercial manufacturers were quick to follow suit with their own versions using the same bullet diameter. Specialized straight wall 32-40 Single Shot (in fact a 0.308) preceded all this for match shooting but not by much.
The old levers are lovely bush guns and I've been kicking myself for letting a perfect fitting model 86 in 45-70 slip through my fingers 20 years ago.
 
I'll have to pull it out to look.

Going to the land to look around and check tree stands. Taking one of Great Grandpas True Tempers I cleaned up a few weeks back. Frequently trees fall across the farm roads.

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Working on a peach tree now. I wonder how some ribs will be with peach wood? That thinned down handle feels good.

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300Six said:
Does it actually say .30WCF or is it 30WCF? Interesting how proprietary cartridges came about. 0.308 (30 caliber) was adopted by the US military in 1892 and commercial manufacturers were quick to follow suit with their own versions using the same bullet diameter. Specialized straight wall 32-40 Single Shot (in fact a 0.308) preceded all this for match shooting but not by much.
The old levers are lovely bush guns and I've been kicking myself for letting a perfect fitting model 86 in 45-70 slip through my fingers 20 years ago.
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30 W.C.F.

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.30WCF said:
I wonder how some ribs will be with peach wood?
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Fantastic. Any of the fruit woods produce very sweet smoke. Plumb and peach are some of my favorites (we used to have a peach orchard). Blend it with hickory for best flavor.
 
.30WCF said:
Way too soft I think. Most of those rounds popped with just gravity working on the 4lb splitting axe.

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Persimmon is in the ebony family and very hard, dense wood. I think it was used for golf club heads in the past.
 
Square_peg said:
Fantastic. Any of the fruit woods produce very sweet smoke. Plumb and peach are some of my favorites (we used to have a peach orchard). Blend it with hickory for best flavor.
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Try maple if you get a chance. Very mild and sweet.

Park Swan said:
Nice rifle :thumbup: I have a Ted Williams Sears 94 in 30-30, so much fun.
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Yes, the old ones are neat.

Bridger said:
Persimmon is in the ebony family and very hard, dense wood. I think it was used for golf club heads in the past.
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Would it be worth trying if I get another? I didn't know.


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Making a cider press. Just grabbed the council boys axe because it was handy. It did well at shaving some angles in the wood for the hopper. Not ideal, but not bad at all.

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Nothing special, but I used my sub zero to trim a few low hanging branches on the tree out back.
( I'm always surprised at how well it works for its size )

Most probably wouldn't recommend using a hatchet at the top of a ladder, but I feel safer holding a tool in one hand while holding an other branch in the other versus holding loppers with both hands and potentially losing balance and falling then they break through . ( no I don't have a poll saw )
 
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Nothing special, but I used my sub zero to trim a few low hanging branches on the tree out back.
( I'm always surprised at how well it works for its size )

Most probably wouldn't recommend using a hatchet at the top of a ladder, but I feel safer holding a tool in one hand while holding an other branch in the other versus holding loppers with both hands and potentially losing balance and falling then they break through . ( no I don't have a poll saw )
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Just the way you wrote that, I would have liked to watch that show.


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.30WCF said:
Just the way you wrote that, I would have liked to watch that show.


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I'm not the best at balancing, so when I'm atop a ladder I like to be holding onto something solid.
( for me using the loppers atop a ladder is like a seized bolt finally breaking free )
Falling off a ladder like that would be a funny thing to see on afv though 😁
 
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