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Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 19:54:25 No.1167980 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1168010 >>1168070 >>1168443 >>1173835 >>1175452

Kelly axes apparently shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:11:30 No.1167988 Report

Quoted By: >>1167994 >>1168042

>chopping frozen wood
Anon, I ...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:17:48 No.1167994 Report

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>>1167988
>Axe can't deal with cold xylem
Needs more quality

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:25:20 No.1167995 Report

Quoted By: >>1168000 >>1168002

what if i dont live in freedom? here i can only buy already chopped up wood, or cut my own stuff in the garden but obviously low production and small sized

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:33:22 No.1168000 Report

Quoted By: >>1168006

>>1167995
You can only but pre-chopped wood? No log-length available?

Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5

Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5 Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:34:49 No.1168002 Report

Quoted By: >>1168006

>>1167995
wtf, what hell hole do you live in?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:37:41 No.1168006 Report

Quoted By: >>1175446

>>1168000
no, they only sell already chopped
for log you have to steal them or cut down one of yours
>>1168002
italy, it's simply illegal to cut down forests (which i dont have near me anyway) it's to protect them which i can understand, there arent many
the nearest is probably 100km and all small trees so it would be inconvenient to go there, cut down trees and take them back with car (an obviously small amount) than to buy them and have them delivered at home

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:40:19 No.1168010 Report

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>>1167980
Buy a log splitter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 20:47:08 No.1168014 Report

Quoted By: >>1168058 >>1168697 >>1170434

Anybody have opinions on the low-end Hults Bruk (Hultafors if you're a europoor) vs the Husqvarna axes? Are the Hults Bruk worth the extra $30-40?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 21:30:13 No.1168042 Report

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>>1167988
Wood splits alot better when its frozen, atleast thats my observation when using a 6-8lb maul to split.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 21:57:30 No.1168058 Report

Quoted By: >>1168697

>>1168014
>Hults Bruk if you're a europoor
Hultafors is the owner of "hults bruks"
And Hults bruks produces for husqvarna, the axes are made in the same company but are not that polished/nice and require a bit more work to be really nice axes.

Hultafors axes (the HY-20 for example) are also not top notch, but require less work to be really nice. Mine was a bit dull, quickly fixed. the rest is perfect.

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Anonymous Thu 28 Dec 2017 22:27:33 No.1168070 Report

Quoted By: >>1168494 >>1168716 >>1168802

>>1167980
That is an abused tool. Everyone can see the fresh chips of metal knocked out of the flat face of the head as well as how massively deformed the flat face is. Someone was either beating it with another hammer/sledge/maul/axe or it was used to beat another tool just as hard or maybe even rocks. Since those marks exist, it means whatever caused the head to split wide open is mostly like 100% the fault of the person using it. Either that specific time or because it was broken previously and didn't crack open fully until now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 12:59:18 No.1168443 Report

Quoted By: >>1168512

>>1167980
>one bad apple probably mistreated in the past means the whole company is shit
Yup, sounds like /out/ to me

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 15:24:35 No.1168494 Report

Quoted By: >>1168528

>>1168070
You're really suggesting that driving a splitting wedge with an axe is tool abuse?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 16:00:33 No.1168512 Report

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>>1168443
>no sense of humor
>takes everything 100% at face value
Yep, this seems like /out/.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 16:22:24 No.1168528 Report

Quoted By: >>1168533 >>1173708

>>1168494
A metal splitting wedge using an axe? Yes. The proper tool for driving a metal splitting wedge is a splitting maul. It is built like a sledge hammer with a blade on one side and a flat face on the other side. An axe with a flat face is intended to be used with wooden splitting wedges., because the steel is softer and thinner than the harder steel of the heavier splitting maul.

Knowledge like this is becoming lost more and more (like knowing why a double bit axe has two faces or how to sharpen a misery whip let alone knowing what one is). It is getting to the point where companies are also giving misinformation simply because the people behind the companies either didn't research properly and/or their fathers did not pass on the information because the grandfathers didn't pass it on either. There's also the problem of people like the OP destroying tools through ignorance, complaining to the companies, and the companies making tools more geared to incorrect use. One example of this happening is with the thickness of outdoor knives increasing due to batoning tool abuse.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 16:27:29 No.1168533 Report

Quoted By: >>1168695

>>1168528
>tfw no grandpas
Both of them died before I was born, I want to go fishing so bad but I have no idea where to start.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 19:52:21 No.1168695 Report

Quoted By: >>1168700

>>1168533
look up if you need a fishing permit in your state, if so, cool if not, cool.
get it or dont, find a spot such as state parks with lakes, with rod and reel and bait. there you go

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 19:53:24 No.1168697 Report

Quoted By: >>1168823 >>1173875

>>1168014
>>1168058
Get a gransfors.
Dont argue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 19:55:38 No.1168700 Report

Quoted By: >>1175460

>>1168695
Great, I now know how to fish

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 20:33:44 No.1168716 Report

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>>1168070
>Webm
Recreation of Excalibur?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 23:27:42 No.1168802 Report

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>>1168070
I'm a little impressed that the pissdrinker knife can take that kind of abuse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Dec 2017 23:50:51 No.1168823 Report

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>>1168697
gransfors if you have much money and cant get anything done, because otherwise you would be able to get a hultafors just as good as a new gransfors, maybe even better because theyve reduced in quality. There were times where all of their axes were good handled. nowadays it seems every third ones got a terrible grain orientation

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jan 2018 18:55:54 No.1170434 Report

Quoted By: >>1170582 >>1175126

>>1168014

Husqvarna made God-tier everything for forestry. Preferred brand now Stihl have been bought put by Chinese.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Jan 2018 22:18:40 No.1170570 Report

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Out cutting firewood today in -1F weather
>feelsgoodman.jpeg
This is a hatchet I found hiking. It is embossed with US05.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Jan 2018 22:39:47 No.1170582 Report

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>>1170434
Stihl ist a german company. Dolmar, which is related to Stihl was German, but bought out by Makita (which is Japanese).
What are you talking about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 00:42:32 No.1170720 Report

Quoted By: >>1170768 >>1171108

Can i just use a regular file to sharpen my axe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 02:14:10 No.1170768 Report

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>>1170720
You can. I don't see anything wrong with it. I did that but when I moved on to stone I found it cut better through more fibrous wood.

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Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 09:47:05 No.1171005 Report

Quoted By: >>1171022 >>1173290 >>1175523

I bought this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 10:36:08 No.1171022 Report

Quoted By: >>1171219

>>1171005
love mine!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 16:04:07 No.1171108 Report

Quoted By: >>1171748

>>1170720
So long as you get the angles proper and the file is fine enough to maintain the current smoothness of the edge, go for it. Just remember, the wrong file can put larger grooves in the metal and end up serrating the edge. That increases friction & wear during normal use and turns it into a different tool for different applications. Getting the angle incorrect is even worse especially if it is a double bit axe with different grinds on each face.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 17:20:08 No.1171157 Report

Quoted By: >>1171192

Need seasoned /out/er's opinions on hatchets. I plan to get one for wood tasks, since I don't want to baton my knife. I'm poor, can't afford anything over $80. Between a husqvarna hatchet and the condor greenlander, which would you pick? Links below.

Condor

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004WMFNIG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514913343&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=condor+greenland+axe&dpPl=1&dpID=41N1SjnQ%2BgL&ref=plSrch

Husqvarna

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D74JBCY/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1514913547&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=husqvarna%2Baxe&dpPl=1&dpID=31cvltV9bvL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1

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Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 18:39:50 No.1171192 Report

Quoted By: >>1171239 >>1173274

>>1171157
Between those two specifically? Get the Husqy. Make sure the handle grain is properly aligned (be willing to send it back multiple times if you're buying online) and you'll have a tool to pass on to future generations. My personal hatchet is an Estwing. I figured, in all my years of construction no hammer felt better in my hand than an Estwing, so I bought their hatchet and am glad I did.
https://www.estwing.com/collections/axes-outdoor/products/campers-axe
Available in short or long handle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 19:37:18 No.1171219 Report

Quoted By: >>1171444

>>1171022
Glad to hear, what do you use to sharpen it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Jan 2018 20:06:57 No.1171239 Report

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>>1171192
Thanks. I'd like to get something nice like a hultafors or gransfors, but a bit too out of my price range right now.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 00:36:17 No.1171431 Report

Quoted By: >>1171705

Are fiskars shit?

I want to get pic related or similar and pair it with a mora kansbol

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 00:53:51 No.1171444 Report

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>>1171219
Norton Abrasives axe stone.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 10:16:00 No.1171692 Report

Quoted By: >>1171693 >>1171748 >>1173713

found this rusty plumb axe buried in a shallow dam bed, probably key in a cold case, bit rusty and dull but it still bashed through a fallen tree
how do I get the rust off this ugly little beast and is grinding it on a brick as terrible an idea as it sounds?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 10:18:18 No.1171693 Report

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>>1171692
Hit it with a wire buff on an angle grinder

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 11:03:04 No.1171698 Report

Quoted By: >>1171751

I just bought a two handed axe today, sort of middle of the road price range so it's not a piece of shit. It's so blunt and every axe at the store was the same. Do axes come blunt and then do you sharpen it yourself? Should I sharpen it with my belt sander?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 11:42:02 No.1171705 Report

Quoted By: >>1171721

>>1171431
I like mine a lot. I previously used a €7 plastic hatchet from a generic sports store and it was also fine, though. I don't get why everyone wants a designer or branded tool. Some of the prices for just a hatchet are ridiculous. It seems people here are more worried about fitting in with other forum users than actually just enjoying the outdoors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 12:16:35 No.1171721 Report

Quoted By: >>1175129

>>1171705
Maybe you just don't know a good tool when you see it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 13:56:03 No.1171748 Report

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>>1171692
I agree with the wire wheel idea to remove the rust. As for the brick, see >>1171108 and make sure you learn the angle of the grind before working on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2018 13:58:30 No.1171751 Report

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>>1171698
Cheapo axes are normally blunt. That's why they are cheap. No, don't use a belt sander or a wheel, unless it is water cooled. If you use one and it starts getting the edge hot the metal will lose its temper and be softer. Soft edges dull quickly. Google up videos on how to sharpen axes and be extremely wary of ones that have grinders/wheels/belts to sharpen them that are not water cooled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 07:12:03 No.1173274 Report

Quoted By: >>1173290

>>1171192
What made you choose that one? I’m eyeing their hatchets.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 08:30:56 No.1173290 Report

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>>1173274
>>1171005
Estwing I got

helps that im a carpenter, but works well /out/

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 21:31:10 No.1173708 Report

Quoted By: >>1173722 >>1175124

>>1168528
>A metal splitting wedge using an axe? Yes.

No, the back (or poll) of an axe is NOT hardened and should _never_ be used as a hammer, which is why OP's axe as well as the one in the attached pic is all peened (dented) to fuck, from retards using it like a sledge hammer.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 21:33:43 No.1173713 Report

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>>1171692
>how do I get the rust off

Pic related + steel wool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 21:54:55 No.1173722 Report

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>>1173708
Check the post you are replying to and the one it is replying to. The post you are replying to says it is tool abuse to use it on metal and that it is instead intended to be only used on wood, for the very reasons you stated.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 23:37:10 No.1173835 Report

Quoted By: >>1173840

>>1167980
I found this axe head in an abandoned house, its in pretty rough shape.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 23:39:19 No.1173840 Report

Quoted By: >>1173843 >>1173855

>>1173835
Not the blade or the metal but the whole thing seems to be bent pretty fuckin bad, is this salvageable at all? Why would it be like this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 23:41:32 No.1173843 Report

Quoted By: >>1173846

>>1173840
The bottom is even worse???

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 23:42:46 No.1173846 Report

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>>1173843
Fug forgot pic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Jan 2018 23:54:59 No.1173855 Report

Quoted By: >>1173868 >>1173870

>>1173840
what you have there is a hewing axe(google it)
it is used to make flat sides on logs in old timber construction
that is why the blade is offset to the eye

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jan 2018 00:01:15 No.1173868 Report

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>>1173855
It has US02 stamped on one side and just a plain circle on the other side, do those things mean anything?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jan 2018 00:02:47 No.1173870 Report

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>>1173855
>hewing axe
and hewing axes normally have chisel grinds and a flat face on side of the eye on what im seeing from google, not a weird curve and a pointed edge like any other axe

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Jan 2018 00:04:54 No.1173875 Report

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>>1168697
if you can't get a gransfors, get a wetterlings. Same production, different branding, slightly less perfect but fucking tip top axes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 10:37:39 No.1175124 Report

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>>1173708
Depends on the metal. For example i use my custom Husqy carpenters axe for pounding in aluminium and magnesium wedges and there's not even a scratch on the axe because those two metals are softer than the non-tempered poll, the axe does however, chew the wedges up especially with bad hits. But if you were to pound steel or iron wedges it would be the opposite, the wedge would chew up the axe because it's harder or similar hardness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 10:41:38 No.1175126 Report

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>>1170434
Well the new 500 series Husqy saws have been shit ever since they came out, it's only since about mid-2016 they got decent, otherwise they were shit for the heat and they cooled down to quick to the point where in the fall or winter you put your saw down for a 5 minute piss come back and you need to do the whole cold start procedure all over again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 10:53:32 No.1175129 Report

Quoted By: >>1175173

>>1171721
>masturbating over brands
Meanwhile, I use the same axe my grandfather bought from a local half a century ago and it's working just fine

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 12:27:36 No.1175141 Report

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>I will just stick to the traditional design, what is innovation?

I never see new models like pic related posted here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 14:06:58 No.1175173 Report

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>>1175129
Hand forged is almost always better, but production source makes a difference when you're buying off the shelf.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 20:19:53 No.1175446 Report

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>>1168006
Plant some trees guido. It can only improve your country.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 20:24:01 No.1175452 Report

Quoted By:

>>1167980

>using steel in cold weather

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 20:31:56 No.1175460 Report

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>>1168700
Head over to everyone's surrogate father (Youtube) and learn.
Or see if one of your friends knows how to fish and is willing to teach you the basics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2018 21:59:46 No.1175523 Report

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>>1171005
I have this as well. A little heavy, but works great and is practically indestructible.

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