Your favorite combination of axes

J_mcrane

J_mcrane

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So many of us have multiple axes and knives. Despite having multiple axes, I can boil my needs to 3 axes, a vintage Eastwing hatchet, a cedar chopper boys axe, and a Swedish full sized axe. Tell me what you can't live without?

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How'd you manage to snag a Cedar pattern axe up in Alberta? Seems these were a regional parts of Texas thing.
 
300Six said:
How'd you manage to snag a Cedar pattern axe up in Alberta? Seems these were a regional parts of Texas thing.
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I've only been in Alberta since February. I spent the first 35 years in Texas. The axe was my Grandfathers who was old school. Me and that little boys axe cleared a lot of brush together.


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Fortunate for you that the enthusiastic and industrious trail crew you affiliate with won't allow powered tools. If ever there was an incentive to learn, use and appreciate traditional tools that has to be it. My luck within private industry was gravitating to gas powered saws a long time ago and I only use hand tools now as a hobby. Last time I used a felling axe would have been in the early to mid 1970s.
In the autumn of 1979 I was hired by Parks Branch of Gov't of BC to help build a peeled-log commercial vehicle bridge north of Prince George. They sent us (foreman and 3 labourers plus a John Deere-450 crawler/back hoe) out there with a collection of sledges, adzes, axes, wood saws and chisels/gouges and a couple of bark spuds. A gov't work program supplied the two supposedly-skilled local native labourers. The logs themselves were 30-35 foot Douglas fir (24-30" at the butt) and were ultimately set on earth-filled log cribs that were inset into the river bank. The natives disappeared by the end of the first week and, as the only 'skin' left onsite, I quickly discovered that a small Pioneer-brand chainsaw could cut and accurately notch logs much faster than an adze. Aside from the spuds, those old handtools were never unpacked again. With ropes and chains the crawler pulled the logs on to the cribs and across the river and the whole shooting match (including tree/land clearing and road access) was open for business after about a month and a half later, just before freeze-up and first snow.
Uncalled for I buttered the cuts, notches and butts of the logs (but only on the east side of the river) with creosote/tar and one day I'd very much like to go back there to see whatever happened to that bridge. Probably been replaced with a steel version that is perched on poured concrete.
 
J_mcrane said:
So many of us have multiple axes and knives. Despite having multiple axes, I can boil my needs to 3 axes, a vintage Eastwing hatchet, a cedar chopper boys axe, and a Swedish full sized axe. Tell me what you can't live without?

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The cedar pattern is my favorite as well. My wife and I even cut our wedding cake last October with my plumb cedar pattern axe on a hand made handle. It worked especially well on the groom's cake since it was decorated as a tree stump :)
 
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