Looking For A Good Axe

[brambles 3,309]

Estwing very good quality

[Night Walker 591]

Depends on what you will be using it for but I would highly recommend a gransfors small forest axe,it will handle most jobs with ease. Quite pricey but you get your money's worth

[wilbur foxhound 480]

Fiskars or gerber both are first class

[MickC 1,825]

Fiskars Estwing Granfors Wetterlings are all top quality , it all comes down to what you want the axe for and what you are willing to pay for one .

[irishnut 297]

I'd be very cautious about carrying an axe in your yoke.

I've heard of people getting in serious bother, for having axe and machete type tools in their greenlaners. Basically you need to have a reason to have such items with you. Especially if they are within easy access.

[moxy 617]

So the question is what are you going to use the axe for? All those that have put forward suggestions of quality makers/ brands, do you own such and use them?

I have a cheap fibreglass effort, £15 no make aldi, Chinese mass produced thing that I use for removing bark from trees for trap dyeing. That's all the use it gets. Holds a reasonable edge, but for £15 it does what I want.

I have a splitting maul which I have had for about 10 years, fibreglass shaft which has had some use and taken some pasty, the head is now loose and on occasion you have to wonder if, when you swing it, the head isn't going to come loose and hit you on the napper.

I'm not going to fell trees with it, it's purely for splitting logs.

I have used a good range of larger axes for splitting firewood, but that's it, a maul is more effective for me.

Back to handheld axes, what are the benefits of spending £50 + for example you may only use once in a while, are they as versatile as a good knife?

[Alimac2 321]

Fiskers!!! Nothing Iv used come close

[socks 32,253]

The axe will be used for cutting away small trees and limbs on awkward ferreting jobs ... Splitting logs on my camping nights ... Hammering the spike home on the collarum and just everyday typical axe work ... I am not really wanting a wooden handled axe as they become hard to handle in the wet and freezing weather .......

 

Anybody had one of these ......

 

http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/schrade-extreme-survival-axe-with-firesteel-14318-p.asp

[Waz 4,274]

I use an axe for splitting logs (aswell as steel wedges). But a handy thing i find to have when im out and about is a billhook and a long handled slasher.

[socks 32,253]

I use an axe for splitting logs (aswell as steel wedges). But a handy thing i find to have when im out and about is a billhook and a long handled slasher.

I've got both of those but want a nice axe to go with them .......

[Rake aboot 4,936]

That little bear grylls gerber thingy looks quite cool.

[trenchfoot 4,243]

for clearance work, limbing, etc I have never found anything that compares to one of these http://www.fiskars.co.uk/Gardening-Yard-Care/Products/Wood-Branches/Forestry/126003-Fiskars-Brush-Hook-X3

[Bosun11 537]

for clearance work, limbing, etc I have never found anything that compares to one of these http://www.fiskars.co.uk/Gardening-Yard-Care/Products/Wood-Branches/Forestry/126003-Fiskars-Brush-Hook-X3

 

That would be my choice to, cracking piece of kit for clearances and saplings.

[Chid 6,621]

For clearance work and trimming back I prefer one of these

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f**k all that work of swinging an axe about