What kind of axe do you use for chopping up deadfall innawoods? Is there any real difference between expensive axes and my $40 one from the hardware store? I know pic related are just silly overpriced shit for hipsters, but even like a $150 axe from council tool or somebody like that seems overpriced.
>>2800348>Is there any real difference between expensive axes and my $40 one from the hardware store?If you have to ask that question you probably shouldn't be around sharp objectsOfcourse there is, steel in hardwarestore nobrand axes is dogshit and haft is ussually beyond shit, and forget about propper grain orientation.But for someone like you op I'd say, just get an estwing
>>2800348why would you want to use an axe for deadfall to begin with? (serious question)
>>2800384maybe he doesn't carry a survival knife™ and dont want to batonny chop chop
>>2800348I’ll answer seriously. A nice middle of the road STHL will get you where you need to go most of the time. Been using mine for 8 years. I’m sure the rest of the larders have opinions. >get a fiskars bro!
>>2800396was thinking more along the lines of a saw.. bucking a downed log with an axe sounds awfully inefficient.hell in a pinch, a machete/billhook w/ a serrated blade would work too.(plz don't throw rocks at me)
>>2800348>silly shit for hipstersHaving a fire at all is silly shit for hipsters, carrying an axe to have one is turbo autism larping
>>2800426what a shitty, zoomer take. You think everyone here lives in a concrete hive and only goes outdoors on camping trips or something?
>>2800445Yeah I do, he said "innawoods" not "on my property". Means he's just cutting up shit for fun while camping, which is larping If he asked for a felling axe I'd direct him to a chainsaw and if he asked for a splitting axe I would recommend either the fiskar because it "just werks" or if he really had a lot of wood to split, a hydraulic splitter
>>2800450>so good!
>>2800457>omg a 0.01% failure rate on a $60 axe>better buy a $200 one instead so I can pay $40 to replace the handle every time it breaks
>>2800462I've never had a hickory handle break with proper use and care.I've had 11 plastic chinesium fiskars axes break on normal solid strikes, two of them splitting dry pine.I think I'll stick with the antiques I bought at a farm sale for 30 bucks each.
>>2800457I've had absolutely zero issues with my fiskars maul and hatchet, despite not taking care of them at all. left out in the elements all year round, ugly as sin, but work just fine.bants aside:>splitting: helko splitting axe. >felling/bucking: chainsaw like a civilized person>limbing: fiskars billhook or hatchetgeneral purpose? i dunno, just pick up whatever boys axe you can find at your local hardware store, which I think is what OP is really after. You're unlikely to use it all that much, and if it's for fucking around with while camping, it's fine. Property owner or someone needing to process firewood or do this kind of thing on a regular basis is obviously a different story entirelyThese threads devolve into the kind of gearfaggery you'd expect from weekend warrior cyclists or golfers.
>>2800479Do you really expect me to believe you went out and bought an 11th fiskar axe after the first 10 broke?
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>>2800482I got 8 of them as gifts because people see that I cut my own firewood and think the "cool looking" axe is better than my "old and worn out" looking axes. So I use them for a month before the -30 to -50 f temperatures cause the plastic to shatter on a regular swing.The other 3 were the ones I bought.I think I still have one of them that I use as a splitting wedge, but doing that tends to shatter them because they're cast shit.
>>2800415Limbing with the axe, saw for trunk, split with axe
>>2800484This. Anything else is retard shit
>>2800530>that tiny little cucksaw>not retard shitlol. lmao even
>>2800348You will notice the difference when you cut wire and bullets and other stuff inside the tree, it's common for trees to absorb foreign objects and if you chop enough wood you will come across them
Hardware store axes tend to have poor heat treatments and go dull very quickly. They also always have crooked hang (alignment of the head with the handle), and are hafted incorrectly with no protrusion of handle on top of the head so that the heads will eventually come loose. The two exceptions are Stihl axes which are manufactured by Oksenkopf in Germany which are fairly good quality (you'll probably still have to replace the handle) and available at Ace hardware stores, and Fiskars axes, which are phenomenal quality and design, but have the drawback of a non-replaceable haft.My favorite axes for camping are Cold Steel tomahawks because of their light weight, excellent heat treatments, and field practical designs, particularly the Pipe Hawk and Hudson Bay hawk. My second favorite is my Gransfors Wildlife hatchet.
>>2800484>>2800530Saws are fine for survival kits and summer camping but they struggle with large diameter wood and trees/branches that are under tension due to how they are fallen, which most dry blowdown is. This makes them very poor choices for winter camping where one might intentionally be relying on a large volume of firewood regularly for a long period of time in cold and wet conditions. A hatchet or light camp axe will make life much easier in this instance.
>>2800487There's nowhere that gets -50 where trees grow large enough to need an axe. Another reason I know you're lying is that Fiskars axes have the best steel in heat treatment on the market. They will take a more acute angle without chipping than any other axe and hold an edge longer too. You would know this if you actually used them and you wouldn't be calling them Chinesium, especially given that they're made in Finland.
>>2800415>>2800348if it's a downed log why not just an axe with a pix on the back side?usually enough to split anything with one good thrust down ain't nothing serious here.>>2800484also /threadI use the silky big boy for almost anything realistically, axe is unironically my backup item.The silky bigboy only cost 100 dollars and will last you realistically a decade+ of hard constant usage.
>>2800566>Fiskars axesLiterally average of 55HRC which is not particularly hard nor. particularly edge holding over any other axe dumbass.58 is considered superior for axe heads.
Fiskars are the Walmart of axes and purchased at Walmart by fat larping faggots who don’t swing enough to break a handle let alone ever replaced one. >>2800566>best steel and heat treatSee>>2800457Cool.
