Thank you mate, and cheers for watching!👍👍🪓

@@kurts64 You are absolutly welcome! Greetings to down under.

Thanks Mr B, cheers for checkin it out!👍👍🪓

Cheers Tim, yep in the right timber they are the ideal- light, manoeuvrable and efficient. All great axes though, we'll give em a more suited task soon!

Cheers mate! Haha I'm glad they're still attached too! Yep a pretty wedgy full-size teamed up with something like these would be a killer combo and probably all most would need, save for a hatchet and a beater. Thanks again Joey👍👍🪓

Haha thanks mate! The brades has a nice shape for sure, but with a bit of wear over the years plus my pretty severe filing job I reckon it just ended up a bit light. Still a nice axe but probably more suited as a bushcraft or small cordwood tool than an all rounder now I reckon. Cheers Chimmy!

🤣🤣 high budget productions! I was actually surprised it was the Muller that glanced- it's got the most race-like handle of the three, deep with flat sides. The HB is a nice oval but even with the laminate swell has a fairly small grip. If any were gunna give grief I would have expected the Brades, I left that pretty much a stock, Council-style with no shaping to the shaft or swell at all. I've just put together another Brades on the same handle, but tuned the sides-and-swell and the heads a 2.75lb model, so we'll see how much difference that makes

It is nuts hey!

My stihl 1926s sing the same tune 😊

Nice! Brades made some great tools, cool to have that family connection too. Cheers for watching mate👍👍🪓

Thanks mate!👍👍

Thanks a lot mate, much appreciated!👍👍🪓

Thanks mate!👍👍

Cheers mate! They were for sure disadvantaged in this timber but the next vid I'll put them more into proper use. Definitely a useful bit of gear in the right circumstance.

Cheers for watching mate!👍👍🪓

Hahaha Deliverance country! Thanks mate👍👍

Thanks alot mate, it is beaut timber, good for building and goes OK for knife handle scales too👍

Good stuff Codi, cheers mate. I reckon you'll like the little Muller, it cuts well and the ash handle is nice too. Haha yep the umbrella for the win! ⛱

Thanks mate!👍👍

Gday mate, I appreciate that👍 Got another vid planned for these small axes and I'll throw some larger ones in for comparison, for sure. For the most part the lowest I'd go weight-wise usually is the 1.2kg range, and even then only for certain jobs. Im learning these little axes have their place though. Kelly! Good stuff, I've got a Dandy build on a pretty special handle in the works now, can't wait to get it out! Thanks again mate!👍

Cheers Brett, I'd planned to throw a tassie notch in there at the end but ran out of time, there will be a part 2 of this vid so I'll make sure to include it in that. Been meaning to ask how your going over there, hope you and yours are all OK mate

Cheers for watching mate! Agreed, the relatively wedgy HB is a good allrounder I reckon, it's got some good runs on the board the last year or so. Yep gotta keep the calluses! Nothing worse than soft hands. Thanks again!👍

So close! Kevin just beat ya! Thanks mate👍👍 yeah it's been pretty mild up here this summer, I'll take rain over bushfires for sure. Cheers Ivan 🪓

🤣turned out not a bad day! Thanks mate!👍👍

Cheer Matt! Yeah a bit bigger than usual for these little blokes, took a while but they got er done! 👍

Gday mate, cheers! I'll get onto that next chance I get for sure!👍🪓

Gday mate, thanks alot! Agreed, 4-5lbers have been my go-to for years as well. I've often wondered what the world would be like if those old timers were given a bunch of modern tools! Be a totally different place I reckon. Haha yeah that glance was a bit freaky. I'd considered it in the wet, but still a surprise! Cheers Peter 👍

Thanks for watching mate! 👍👍🪓

Gday mate! Cheers, that little brades does release well so let's you keep the speed up. Definitely a versatile little tool, I was asking a bit much here but they got it done! 🪕🤣

Thanks mate. It's a mix of both, there's some proper old growth, metre-plus seed trees through there, some second gen regrowth around the 40-70cm mark, and a heap of new growth from small saplings to 30cm. Very healthy working forest in my opinion, pretty much been my second home for about 15 years! Fairly large area too, and is worked and managed very well, with selective logging and controlled burns regularly, but still has untouched areas you could get lost in, and plenty of wildlife. I'll spend a few days walking across it south to north one of these days.Love this place!

@@kurts64 looks like a magic spot, great to have access to it for sure!

Gday mate, cheers!👍👍🪓

Gday mate, yep tallowood is some great timber. This tree was uprooted and left whole either by the loggers or some storms we had in our area about a month after logging finished. I thought for a while after finding it the best way to utilise it, but unfortunately after moving off the farm I no longer have access to a mill, so figured can at least get some demonstration value out of it using it for these tests. The pros and cons of chopping in a working forest these days: I'd actually organised a mill to utilise the spotted gum log from the Big Log video, and when I got back there to do it, the road graders had rolled the 8m long, 60 cm diameter log off the road and down the gully! 😤 Thanks again for watching mate, cheers! 👍👍🪓

Cheers Ben! The old "ideal for 12 inch pulpwood" thing I reckon would be based mostly on felling, where your not only cutting half-notches but using a step cut anyway. I definitely wouldn't wanna be bucking 12 inch trees into commercial cordwood all day with em

Yeah it felt like it took a bit to get into the "whip" groove as opposed to the "drive" with a larger axe. Agreed, 6 inches or so is the sweet spot for these fellas

First! Cheers mate👍

Cheers Glen! The Muller did seem to do really well and would excel at limbing too. HB is an allrounder, and this particular Brades, with a shorter edge, more curved bit and higher centreline would make it probably the better splitter of the three. Sorry the rain washed out the audio a bit!

@@kurts64 oh , nothin to be sorry for. I'm from a rain forest. I now live in a fairly dry area. Sometimes I miss the sound of rain. Your um ba rella reminds me of an um ba rella I got for my wife in 02. I needed a bear watch when I was thinning trees along the Neka Bay Estuary on Chichagof Island. I would cut all the brush around a big stooled up spruce stump. (Many were 3 and 4 springboards up. ) Her and our 2 dogs would climb up the steps on a root flare. She would have my 458 and a big white and maroon umbarella . Her and the dogs and my rifle would sit under the umbrella and watch for brown bears that might head my way. I would be down thinning away with a 260 Stihl screaming in my hands. In the pouring rain 😆😆. I'm hopefully going to get a few of those Biber Mullers by summertime. 1200, 1600 and 2 kg. Maybe even a tommy

@@glenurquhart2300 your missus sounds like a champ! That's awesome. I reckon you'll do well with the Muller's, they're a good axe

Hahahaha nah she'll be right mate!🤣🤣👍🪓