Like my cousin I carry a GB axe, the small forest ax, easy to carry and very sharp with a thiner blade profile.
Like my cousin I carry a GB axe, the small forest ax, easy to carry and very sharp with a thiner blade profile.
Bear Clan
I was born with nothing,
with hard work and deligence I still have most of it
this week a lot less...must be a hole in my pocket
Those of you with the Fiskars/Gerber hatchets, what if anything do you store in the hollow handle?
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I got a call center in Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
I just found the “swiss army version” of the E-Tool folding shovels.
This thing is a tough as it gets. I can through out 13 tools that are in my
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Oh, and Tim ........ please do not post a link to this great new all in one tool from your site. Thank you.
I carry a Gerber axe, and a buckmaster 184.
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the fiskars 14 hatchet is awesome
Those are pretty nice, under a pound, If i was in the market for another hatchet I would have it high on the list....close to the Eastwing (little heavier) over a pound.
http://www.campmor.com/estwing-leath...&ci_gpa=pla&ci
Currently using a Bullseye:
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First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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Oh come on. You're in the market for another anything. Hatchet, muzzle loader, canteen, whatever.
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I bought a hawk from a blacksmith at a rendezvous near Ft Atkinson Iowa many years ago for I think $15.(should tell ya how long I've had it) Keep thinking I should replace it but then I use it again and decide it's still going good and no need to spend the money. To bad the handles don't last that long. :>)
Oldtrap
Never claimed to be an expert. Just use or do what works for me.
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First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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I carry a small Wetterlings, fisker or a small cold steel hatchet depends on trip duration expected need etc.
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I don't store anything in mine I do have the handle wrapped in 550 though
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Some good choices here.
For me, I carry a pair of tools as my "kernel gear" - the tools that matches my skill sets that will get me out indefinitely;
A short machete or long knife, and a long (22" - 32") tomahawk with a lightweight head.
I don't have any problems with the long handles on the proper hawks (a proper hawk is one that has certain weight and balance characteristics - usually with a Center of Mass where the middle third meets the last third by the head, and about one ounce of weight per inch of length, so a 24 inch proper hawk will only weigh about 24 ounces), as some have mentioned here - you just can't treat a proper hawk like a hatchet or an axe of some sort if you want to really benefit from them besides saving carry weight, etc. - hawks require different techniques - otherwise it's kinda like thinking a cheetah will act like a greyhound because they are about the same size and shape.
That example probably doesn't illustrate my point too well, but it's all I got. LOL.
I like a lot of saws for bushcrafting, but I don't consider them a long term survival item, because they are hard to maintain compared to a simple long blade or hawk. - I carry various saws in my walkabout gear as well as my BOB-type stuff, but I consider the saws snivel gear compared to the hawk and long blade, due to the saws' vulnerabilities.
Along with the hawk, long blade and saw, I tend to carry a small chisel and a multiplier and/or SAK as my grab-and-go preference.
vec
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here's a photo of a little hatchet that I carry. I've had it for many years and have others but keep coming back to this one.
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