I found after using my chainsaw i needed a good AXe try finding a good one at a fair

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This might be helpful. Steve's Small Engine Saloon had two great videos on "Hanging An Axe".

How To Hang an Axe - Video {PART ONE} - YouTube

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[Bullwinkle123]

This might be helpful. Steve's Small Engine Saloon had two great videos on "Hanging An Axe".

How To Hang an Axe - Video {PART ONE} - YouTube

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Sorry, I couldn't make past the point where this guy says he's basically going to take a LONG time to talk in PART ONE of his series on hanging an axe. Maybe it's a very good series, but his lead-in is awful (at least, for my attention span).

I find these two videos far more inspiring, either one of these guys could probably go from dried bit of tree to a hung axe handle by the time the other guy talks through parts one and two of his videos.

Finnish man makes an axe handle(1936) - YouTube
Making An Axe Handle From A Log - YouTube

Unfortunately neither of the videos is the one I like of the guy who made the axe handle with pretty much just an axe, maybe I'll find that.

 

[two_bit_score]

Sorry, I couldn't make past the point where this guy says he's basically going to take a LONG time to talk in PART ONE of his series on hanging an axe.

I find these two videos far more inspiring, either one of these guys could probably go from dried bit of tree to a hung axe handle by the time the other guy talks through parts one and two of his videos.

Finnish man makes an axe handle(1936) - YouTube
Making An Axe Handle From A Log - YouTube

Unfortunately neither of the videos is the one I like of the guy who made the axe handle with pretty much just an axe, maybe I'll find that.

My version has a Fast Forward feature. Almost all videos drag a little in parts. Thats when I fast forward.

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[Egon]

Just remember that axes have a wide range of head size and edge bevel grinds. Usually there will be a cutting edge design to suit your axe use.

 

[happysawer]

Steve is a great guy i have learned a lot from his videos, but Steve is not a Logger or has worked in the forests or has he spent about all of his life, felling trees and bucking logs as Bucken Billy Ray has.

So if Bucken Billy Ray says he feels the wood grain in the axe handle running across not the best grain pattern, and running in the length is the best grain pattern then, i have to go along with Bucken Billy Ray he's been there and done it.

 

[CobyRupert]

Lowe’s sells axe (or sledge) wedged for $1.79 https://www.lowes.com/pd/Truper-Expansion-Wedge/50299973

Store handle in a dry place before installing so wood shrinks.
I’ve heard people say to stick an axe’s or sledge’s head in a bucket of water before you use it if you want a little bit more tightness.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper for me to take one of my old or ”retired early” chainsaw chains and devote it to be a “root chain”. Yes, it might not cut fast and I might have to do a couple quick re-sharpenings for a stump, but it does the job eventually.

 

[deezler]

I have a Fiskars X27 and that thing is amazing. Best splitting maul I have ever used. Trades lighter head weight for faster swing speed and works like a charm. If I needed an axe Fiskars would be on the top of my shopping list.

I also have the Fiskar's X27, and kind of have mixed feelings about it. It splits dry, straight wood like a charm. But struggles with my stringy elm wood (what axe, wouldn't, I suppose).

The main problem I have with the X27 is just that the cutting edge is so sharp and thin, that it gets damaged easily. If you strike clean through a log into the dirt below it, you'll probably have found a pebble and dinged the blade. I had to resharpen mine after only half a face cord of splitting or so, and then there were chunks of blade missing. Still works well, but that was a bummer. A heavier, duller maul doesn't have this problem.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have ten chainsaws and a couple of AXES that never get used. I used to use them for chopping roots in the ground, but got tired of soil in my hair and started using a saws-all. What do people use an AXE for? The OP mentioned something about a STUMP???

 

[happysawer]

I have ten chainsaws and a couple of AXES that never get used. I used to use them for chopping roots in the ground, but got tired of soil in my hair and started using a saws-all. What do people use an AXE for? The OP mentioned something about a STUMP???

There Holly Bush stumps left after cutting down them worthless bushs, i love wacking at them with my Axe everytime i hit the stump i think i am choping my ex wives oldest son in his worthless head.

 

[kenmbz]

I use a sawzall and chainsaws, small Axe for kindling firewood. Maul for splitting (8lb). I would like a felling axe to breeze through larger saplings as I clear trails. So have been looking.