>>343358>>343361I wish every other piece of gear I use was as shit and cost $30.
There are plenty people who use them and are perfectly fine with them, so they can't be that bad. Me, I use mine all winter and all year long when /out/, doesn't mean my survival depends on it, it only helps, and if it was to break, well, no campfire nor roasted marshmallows tonight and that's it.
I don't think anyone in this thread said Fiskars axes are the best. They're incredible for their price that's for sure, and they're good axes nonetheless, and they're much, much sturdier than they appear, but if you really need your axe to be reliable because your life depends on it, then yeah takes something you can rehandle, and again I don't think anyone said otherwise. You're overreacting quite a bit here, and quite simply going on a witch hunt.
Still, there really are few Fiskars axes that broke during regular use. As some have pointed out, of all reports of broken axes on the internet we've seen, one was a counterfeited one, a couple were purposedly broken to test their strength by twisting the head, and only a few were apparently used as they should have. Most are old models when the plastic casing was sticking out, and those were shit. And as for the one you just posted:
>http://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/fiskars-unbreakable-handles.83651/>It got caught in the return stroke on my log splitter last year and put a small crimp in the handle. This year when pounding in a felling wedge, it just snapped (right where the crimp was of course).They're not the best axes ever, but they're not the pieces of shit you think they are either, or then you'll have to pick better sources than some that contradict you.
