Who made the largest axes?

[Agent_H]

This doesn't qualify for "the biggest of all" category but it's on the bigger side.





It's not the first thing I think of picking up for my average use. Splitting firewood rounds, clearing windfall, and limbing are what I end up using an axe for most of the time.
It does get looked at when I am grabbing a lighter tool though...

Not entirely sure who made Lakeside but probably falls under one of the makers listed above?

When reading this thread I guess I was thinking single bit but if we include specialty axes like mentioned above then that opens the field up some.

There are some big looking hewing and goosewing style axes out there. I've not used/owned/fondled a goosewing style so maybe that is just a general impression from their size.

 

[Operator1975]

Lakeside was an off shoot of Montgomery Wards, which was made by Kelly.

 

[1 ADAM12]

Good godalmighty......!!!

 

[300Six]

Shown beside a 4 lb Walters head is a foundling head that Steve Tall definitively pinned the origin of 'between 1864 and 1871'. Despite the wear & tear and deep rust it still weighs-in at 5 1/4 lbs. People in general were of smaller stature 150 years ago so this would have been a real brute for use as a felling axe. Nevertheless it must have been a production item because G Story foundry records indicate they forged about 1600 axes per year.

 

[Ugaldie]

Canadians have made the biggest axe,

 

[300Six]

Canadians have made the biggest axe,

Where the heck is that located? Numerous friends of mine seek out oversize statues and roadside attractions (Sudbury nickle/Wawa goose/Vulcan starship Enterprise/Barry's Bay CF-105 Arrow etc) during their car travels but a double bit axe is a new one on me.

Edit: This roadside attraction is located in Nakawic, New Brunswick. Predominantly a logging and mill town (unfortunately the mill folded in 2004) the then still prosperous town commissioned building of an axe back in 1991. It stands 15m (49 feet) high and the blade is 7m (23 feet) across.

 

[Agent_H]

Canadians have made the biggest axe,

Grain orientation?

 

[300Six]

Grain orientation?

Probably 'north-south'. You've gotta live in the Prairies to appreciate 'grain' (wheat, barley, oats?) orientation.

 

[rockman0]

Probably 'north-south'. You've gotta live in the Prairies to appreciate 'grain' (wheat, barley, oats?) orientation.

Lmao! Now that is funny!

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Here's one made by Müller of Austria as something of a novelty piece. But it's a real axe.

 

[Agent_H]

Probably 'north-south'. You've gotta live in the Prairies to appreciate 'grain' (wheat, barley, oats?) orientation.

That is a great post.

 

[the possum]

Grain orientation?

The yellow color indicates that the haft is made of Osage Orange, which is so strong that it doesn't really matter.