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I'm looking for a good all around camp axe for fire wood maybe some tent pegs and also general cutting. Should I better look for a specific brand or anything will do just fine?
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>>2840978
Fiskars
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>>2840978
People seem to like Gransfors Bruk axes.
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>>2840978
I speak for all of /out/
the official camp axe is actually going outside and realizing you don't need one
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>>2840994
based and primitive technology pilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-34JfUrHY
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I’ve had one of these for about 15 years and it’s great. Head does get a little loose with heavy use. Light. Feels right. Swings like a dream and take an edge.
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>>2841006
Dammit wrong pic that’s the hatchet. DONT GET THE HATCHET ITS DILDOS!
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>>2840978
Silky Big Boy, your boot and a Mora Companion.
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>>2840978
I'll just leave this here....
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>>2841015
Yeah, I had the saved from /k/, but forgot about it because it's a total gimic as a simgle shot. Make me a repeater, but by then, just get a splitter.
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>>2840978
Lets try this link
https://www.maxwarehouse.com/products/collins-boys-axe-drop-forged-heat-treated-2-1-4-lb-hickory-28
Again, you can cut a third of the handle off if it suits you better.
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>>2840978
Literally any axe with a wood handle will work. A good axe will work better, but afaik, no one makes good axes anymore - gransfors and hultafors are overpriced meme shit that's no better than what you get at the hardwarestore, "professional" axes like from Ochsenkopf, for example, are the same thing except they can justify their price with official tests (that you don't need unless youre a professional user and your insurance or employer demands them), fiskars is worse (mostly due to the fiberglass handle not dampening impacts, and tending to break in cold weather).

If you know what you're looking for, you can get good axes at flea markets and such, but for new production, just get the cheapest axe that has a tempered blade (all but the cheapest temu ones do) and a wooden handle.

>inb4 shills claim their specific brand of axe is magically superior
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>>2841032
This guy is right, my very best axe is some 4,50 dollar from some thrift store, probably made in the 1960's.
Disagree about hultafors; they're overpriced but in my opinion they swing really well, perfect fucking balance. But once again enough old, cheap axes that do the same thing.
The shittiest wood handled axe swings better than the best steel-handled axe btw, don't go for steel if it's comfort you're after.
You should definitely get something a little longer than a hatchet, and store it somewhere on the outside of your pack. Hatchets are fun but kind of useless, machetes outperform them and have more uses.

OP learning how to replace heads, make new handles and sharpen your blade properly not only saves you tons of money, it beats having an expensive axe at all; you can have a custom-forged job and still fuck it because you're not able to maintain it properly.
Same goes for ALL knives but /out/ is not ready for that discussion on weekdays.
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>>2840979
handle brake too easy
>>2840994
also this
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>>2841135
>handle brake too easy
>meme
Post the handle YOU broke.
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>>2840994
That's true but they're still fun.
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>>2841177
>first time working in the forest
>midwinter, felling trees
>buddy working on a tree ~40m away is driving in wedges with the back of his fiskars "felling" axe
>head goes flying off, misses me by around a metre
>turns out plastic doesn't deal well with cold

>"hurrduurrr, if you didn't break one yourself, it doesn't count"
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>>2841135
>too easy
>>2841198
I've got 3 similar stories about wood handles. So..?
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>>2841199
>I've got 3 similar stories about wood handles. So..?
Well then, anon, post pics of a wooden handle YOU broke... Or do you only expect proof from people calling out fiskars?

But either way, even if wooden handles were just as bad as plastic, the simple fact that you can repair them yourself, and get wooden-handled axes for half the price of muhfiskars would already make them worth it.
Besides, I'd rather trust a wooden handle I made, than some piece of plastic a chink glued in.
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Sigh oh look this thread again.
Fiskars is garbage. Go sew a quilt if you want to use fiskars. They’re an old lady scissor brand not an axe company.
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>>2841214
What you think about Gerber
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>>2841198
>if you didn't break one yourself, it doesn't count
The logic here is uncontestable.
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>>2841380
Belongs in a scifi movie killing aliens.
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>>2840994
It’s not about needing one.
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>>2841380
I didn’t know they existed but I fell for the Gerber pocket knife trick and won’t be wasting my money on that brand ever again.
I really like the design of the folders but I’ve broken like 3 tips off knife with zero effort.
TLDR- Baby axe by a baby food company. 100 percent will shatter.
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>>2841427
It's not the same company
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>>2841206
>>2841214
Romanticize the past all you want. The simple fact is that wood will absorb moisture from the environment and change shape. If you want to make the case that a grfn handle will break in -32' if you drive your car over it, OK. Wooden handles break under the same, mysterious, one-in-a-million circumstances you imagine. It still remains that wooden handles loosen up over time and require the maintenance you romanticize.
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>>2841507
It’s not about romanticizing the past at all. The fact of the matter is that wood or plastic the handle is going to break at some point and I’d rather be able to just fix it myself
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I really hate you fucking larpers that destroy forests and cut down trees just so you can pretend to be real survivalists
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>>2841611
also before one of you autists say "just use downed trees" you're literally destroying ecosystems used by animals and bugs. You're as bad as cairn fags that take rocks and stack them everywhere
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>>2841611
Get a grip. Go get upset about a real issue. How about all the Mexicans cutting down cords of wood every weekend? Tell it to a lumber company, or mining, or oil, or gas.

White people cutting down one tree, if that, while camping, is not going to do anything.

Silly fool.
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>>2840978
Depends. there are different sized axes for different kinds of work. if you plan on doing smaller work like tent pegs, clearing bark, and processing kindling, then clearly a hatchet. depending on how much chopping you are doing a medium or large. i think a medium like a hudson bay and larger for felling. you probably want the hatchet and a hudson bay
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are you just allowed to carry axes and machetes around
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>>2842058
yes, as long as you notify your local police department beforehand or if you're with a licensed supervisor when you have it.
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>>2842058
Depends on where you are and what you're doing. The cops decide what is a weapon vs. a tool where I live. If I am walking through the forest with an axe, then I won't have a problem, but if I'm walking down main street in my underwear with an axe then I will have a problem.
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>>2841507
>The simple fact is that wood will absorb moisture from the environment and change shape.
Yeah, that's what oil once a year is for.
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>>2841611
>>2841612
I invite you to come to my land and tell me to my face to stop using the trees I own to heat my house in the winter.
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>>2841612
You can't live in modern society without extracting resources from the earth. If you aren't using wood/paper you're using some sort of petroleum product in its place, which is far worse for the environment in the grand scheme of things.
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>>2842150
You’re not camping.
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>>2840978
Assuming you are backpacking or doing a paddle and portage trip and you just want something to help you collect 2-3 inch sticks and split collected sticks to get to the dryer wood inside/increase surface area, a Fiskars x5 or x7 are perfectly functional and as light as you’ll find at a normal hardware store or camping store. Otherwise a Hults Bruks Ajeson or Hultan are roughly similar to the two mentioned Fiskars, but more traditional in construction. The real lightweight hack is to get a 12 oz drywall hatchet, and reprofile the head back behind the exposure stop holes and then shorten the handle.

If you are river paddling or staying close to your car, I really like a boys axe or Council Tools Woodcrafter. I use the Woodcrafter for collecting and processing the wood I use when boiling my syrup each spring.
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>>2842199
Says you, I hike a few days into my land to camp at least one week a month.
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>>2842432
>I hike a few days into my land to camp at least one week a month.
So are you /out/ two weeks a month or do you hike
> a few days in
and therefore
> a few days out
over the course of a week and you heat a house with the wood you cut and remove while doing this?

At least have the decency to lie in a consistent manner you larping faggot.
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>>2842148
The head loosens over time. Don't pretend you don't know this.
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>>2842441
I hike a loop and camp when it gets dark, usually takes 4-5 days. During this I mark trees to fell in the autumn and drive my log truck out to get them.

>>2842443
>hammer wedge
Wow, so hard, such a huge inconvenience that makes me want to use cheap walmart axes with cast heads and flimsy plastic handles.
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>>2842445
So you aren't collecting with an axe, just using it in place of a can of spraypaint?
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You can build a nice campfire with pic related. There's no need to carry a heavy, expensive axe.
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>>2842536
Kino as fuck desu
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>>2842536
Sir, that saw is ridiculous.
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>>2842536
You had me at Japanese professional grade.
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Any axe will do as long as you know how to use it.
These old resin men can take a tree down without sweating.
>https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_X5NCW3SAM
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>>2842758
But could they chop down the largest tree in the forest with a herring?
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>>2842447
I use my axe more than I use a chainsaw.
Many times I don't even bring the chainsaw to fell and prepare the trees, I prefer the quiet.
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>>2841015
he made a mk2 but it's a complete fail lol

https://youtu.be/vICU4PTPbuo?si=EMF_jdjTQ4_pqkkV
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>>2840978
I've had the same axe head for 22 years, found it in the diet when I was a kid, sharpen it when it needs, replace handle when it needs. It's fucking axe you retard. Cave man tech
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>>2840978
Tomahawk since it's light, heya hoya
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Rate my $7.59 genuine homosexual lumberjack artisan axe. I plan to burn Hoeltefurs logo into its handle to make it more valuable for the future generations
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>>2840978
Granfors bruks small forest axe tends to he good, small enough to carry around, light, is decent for processing medium size fireword. You can fell trees with it, but the large forest axe is definitely better for such, but with the length you lose out on the perks of the small forest axe. You really have to ask yourself what youre gonna use it for. As many in this thread has already mentioned, you *rarely* actually need an axe, even when you think you might need one. I personally carry a beefy seax in 3v, which tends to do most wood processing well, without having to carry a 1kg axe with me.



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