Axe Madness Using 7 different Axes & Hatchets in the Woods + Camp Fire Cooking
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Date: 2019-09-10
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Paul N
At 3: 35. that is a Broad Hatchet. You flatten logs with it. Looking at them you may find the head is offset left or right to protect the axemans knuckles when hewing a beam. At 5: 25 that is a small camp hatchet. Hatchets are one handed tools. Light work like kindling or limbing a log. At 6: 25 that is a splitting maul and is necessry for dense grained hardwood splitting. The flat backside of the splitting maul is for driving wedges if you are splitting a log lengthwise. Love your dad's wooden mallet Yes, put a wedge in if the hole through the head is a cylinder bore. If the head is oval and the handle driven through the mallet head and not into (I don't know if that makes sense) the head cannot fly off. Using the mallet would make it tighter on the handle shaft.
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At 3: 35. that is a Broad Hatchet. You flatten logs with it. Looking at them you may find the head is offset left or right to protect the axemans knuckles when hewing a beam. At 5: 25 that is a small camp hatchet. Hatchets are one handed tools. Light work like kindling or limbing a log. At 6: 25 that is a splitting maul and is necessry for dense grained hardwood splitting. The flat backside of the splitting maul is for driving wedges if you are splitting a log lengthwise. Love your dad's wooden mallet Yes, put a wedge in if the hole through the head is a cylinder bore. If the head is oval and the handle driven through the mallet head and not into (I don't know if that makes sense) the head cannot fly off. Using the mallet would make it tighter on the handle shaft.
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James Ellsworth
The small hatchet with the artificial grip looks to be a TrueTemper. I had one as a lad in 1958 in the USA and it was my camp hatchet until I hit the poll with a rock a few times, while batoning wood and the axe split parallel to the handle, down the face of the tool. I can't think they were designed to be long-lived or effective and once the join between the tubular handle and the head loosened, the tool couldn't be repaired. The notch was supposed to be a big feature: light camp construction tasks could be pieced together using nails. Boys who bent nails rather than drove them true could more easily pull the bad ones out. (Sigh)
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The small hatchet with the artificial grip looks to be a TrueTemper. I had one as a lad in 1958 in the USA and it was my camp hatchet until I hit the poll with a rock a few times, while batoning wood and the axe split parallel to the handle, down the face of the tool. I can't think they were designed to be long-lived or effective and once the join between the tubular handle and the head loosened, the tool couldn't be repaired. The notch was supposed to be a big feature: light camp construction tasks could be pieced together using nails. Boys who bent nails rather than drove them true could more easily pull the bad ones out. (Sigh)
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Travis Thacker
The all metal hatchet is a roofers hatchet. They called them a Shingleman's hand axe, hatchet, roofers axe, what have you. The older better version has a off set handle or cast off handle like a gun's stock is cast off for left handed or right handed shooter just a tad. the roofers hatchet or shingle makers hatchet has a big time off set handle shape to allow getting the head right up against the wood and not hitting your hand on the log or board your trimming. Hewing AXE or Hatchet in the old cheek and tongue. Best ever is in my eyes the boy scout axe or Boy's Axe 2 and 1/4 pound
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The all metal hatchet is a roofers hatchet. They called them a Shingleman's hand axe, hatchet, roofers axe, what have you. The older better version has a off set handle or cast off handle like a gun's stock is cast off for left handed or right handed shooter just a tad. the roofers hatchet or shingle makers hatchet has a big time off set handle shape to allow getting the head right up against the wood and not hitting your hand on the log or board your trimming. Hewing AXE or Hatchet in the old cheek and tongue. Best ever is in my eyes the boy scout axe or Boy's Axe 2 and 1/4 pound
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Scotland Wood Works
Axe's and Hatchet's could be a 8 hour conversation. Outside of Joinery and Hewing Axes, the number and types of Heads and Hafts are countless. When you go from cutting and shaping Axes and Hatchets, to types used as Weapons, the topic explodes. Best advice; know the anatomy of an Axe. All the terms are transferable to Hatchets. Then, enjoy owning them, in almost every case, the type of tool and it's purpose will reveal itself when in use. Thanks for another great Video.
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Axe's and Hatchet's could be a 8 hour conversation. Outside of Joinery and Hewing Axes, the number and types of Heads and Hafts are countless. When you go from cutting and shaping Axes and Hatchets, to types used as Weapons, the topic explodes. Best advice; know the anatomy of an Axe. All the terms are transferable to Hatchets. Then, enjoy owning them, in almost every case, the type of tool and it's purpose will reveal itself when in use. Thanks for another great Video.
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Chad Morgan
The two broad axes are hewing axes used for flattening and squaring timbers for lumber. The little slot in the camp axe is supposed to be a nail puller but they don't work very well. I cringed at the point I seen the axe on the bench grinder. That's sacrilegious to me. It will take the hardness from your edge. Other than that the biggest one we'd call a splitting maul here in Newfoundland. Anyways, Cheers till the next one
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The two broad axes are hewing axes used for flattening and squaring timbers for lumber. The little slot in the camp axe is supposed to be a nail puller but they don't work very well. I cringed at the point I seen the axe on the bench grinder. That's sacrilegious to me. It will take the hardness from your edge. Other than that the biggest one we'd call a splitting maul here in Newfoundland. Anyways, Cheers till the next one
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mrRobbins999
The broad head axes you dad held was used by the old timers for making lumber and wooded beams etc for buildings. Has for sharpening axes on the grind stone I advise against it has the stones to corse and it messes up the heat treat and the axe will be blunt in no time. I suggest if you no good sharpening free hand buy an electric work sharp with the different grit belts and speed adjustment
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The broad head axes you dad held was used by the old timers for making lumber and wooded beams etc for buildings. Has for sharpening axes on the grind stone I advise against it has the stones to corse and it messes up the heat treat and the axe will be blunt in no time. I suggest if you no good sharpening free hand buy an electric work sharp with the different grit belts and speed adjustment
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Red Bear Preparedness
Please stop using an axe poll as a hammer. It is not properly hardened, nor made for use as hammer. You will end up damaging the poll, and can possibly deform the eye. Mushroomed polls are very dangerous because small slivers of metal can fly off when struck hard. Some hatchets and mauls have hardened polls specifically made for hammering. However, most axes and hatchets don't.
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Please stop using an axe poll as a hammer. It is not properly hardened, nor made for use as hammer. You will end up damaging the poll, and can possibly deform the eye. Mushroomed polls are very dangerous because small slivers of metal can fly off when struck hard. Some hatchets and mauls have hardened polls specifically made for hammering. However, most axes and hatchets don't.
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Cassie Abhram
Nice vid guys, a wedge in the woodern mallet shaft end, might split the head. imho. as its dead centre in the head grain of the wood. maybe make some birch sap resin glue to seal it in there instead roll up birch bark and stuff it in a tin with a lid, put a small hole in the lid, stick it on the fire embers to sweat out the resin and concentrate it in a natural hot glue. Cassie
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Nice vid guys, a wedge in the woodern mallet shaft end, might split the head. imho. as its dead centre in the head grain of the wood. maybe make some birch sap resin glue to seal it in there instead roll up birch bark and stuff it in a tin with a lid, put a small hole in the lid, stick it on the fire embers to sweat out the resin and concentrate it in a natural hot glue. Cassie
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NicksNWAdventures
Those old vintage axes would be pretty nice with some work, right now they are a safety hazard. Those heads are going to fly off with those old handles in that kind of shape. There shouldn't be so many gaps. Also aside from the other comments about the bench grinder, that angle is way too steep, it's not going to cut very well with that edge.
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Those old vintage axes would be pretty nice with some work, right now they are a safety hazard. Those heads are going to fly off with those old handles in that kind of shape. There shouldn't be so many gaps. Also aside from the other comments about the bench grinder, that angle is way too steep, it's not going to cut very well with that edge.
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