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The saw dust mixed ice was called Pykrete (see my comment below for a very inexpensive press challenge idea): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

spin microwave at 5000 rpm spin dishwasher at 5000 rpm spin a car at 5000 rpm

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Both were from the same store, Biltema. Which usually produces really cheap tools. So I guess they're really hard, but shit to use

I thought that you can see it nicely on the high speed shot that the small axe gets destroyed? but maybe its not clear if you don't know it in advance?

@@HydraulicPressChannel It was hard to tell when they were still together. And like he said video ends before you see them apart. Love the channel!

@@JimiMarvin I agree. We got to see the others apart, which shows the damage to each axe more clearly. It would have been nice to see the two finalists in this way too. Still a good video though, as always!

Agree. Need a short follow up to show the two axes apart and what happened!

depending on what steel you use and what it needs to be quenched in, it simply wont harden, will crack, or not harden correctly and develop heavy distortions. Or it will just cool down and be no different than before. Quenching in water is faster than quenching in oil. Say you have a piece of steel that needs to be quenched fast to achieve its best properties, you quench in water. If you quench that piece in oil, it wont cool down fast enough and thus not harden correctly.

The grade of steel is what will determine the results

5! Leave one outside in a field in the weather to rust for 1 year (or more preferably) . We do this with engine blocks to harden them. Bring them in, clean them up, bore them out and holy snikees!

@@DrLeroyGreen that's beyond stupid

Oil-quenched should be the hardest.

I thought that you can see it nicely on the high speed shot that the small axe gets destroyed? but maybe its not clear if you don't know it in advance?

@@HydraulicPressChannel Could not tell which was being destroyed. seemed equal destruction

Yepp, definitely needs a little recap in a future video which one got damaged more.

@@kirk1156 bottom axe was absolutely chewing into the skinnier axe. It was easy to tell when you could see the top axe sliding.

@@HydraulicPressChannel Another copy and paste response showing that you don't care enough to read the comments

I thought that you can see it nicely on the high speed shot that the small axe gets destroyed? but maybe its not clear if you don't know it in advance?

@@HydraulicPressChannel How about you read the comment before you copy and paste a generic response! They were talking about seeing the blades apart.

@@HydraulicPressChannel What's up with pasting the same comment? Didn't pay your staff enough to think up a unique reply for everyone? Shows little thought of concern. But you got that sweet, sweet sponsor money, so who cares what you put on KZfaq, right?

@@neb_setabed bruh u really gonna comment under all his copy and paste about his copy and pastes? U really that bored?

@@trixclashofclans just annoyed that he doesn't seem to care

with some candle flavor ! :D

It looked tastier before morphing into the snake, that's for sure.

If Biltema can be considered a high quality version of Harbor Freight, the latter must be really terrible! 😂

@@ewilloch but in this test, Biltema won. So what’s your point?

@@ewilloch yeah biltema has the joke reputation in finland and probably sweden too. that being said I'd like to have both a biltema and a hf where I live. they're both curated china/asia stuff for a lot of the stuff. but you know what, they're not that bad. although they're both also more expensive than uncurated asian stuff I have local access to - also browsing the biltema catalog is great toilet reading, you just don't get the same with browsing aliexpress or going to a local store around where I live that has aliexpress stuff(it's nice being able to pick up arduino clones for couple of bucks locally though off the shelf and the modules and stuff).

@@letsgobrandon5800; My point is that I know the Biltema shops quite well, and the quality of their products is mediocre at best. A lot of their products are so poor that they exist only for the purpose of being sold, the buyers to immediately discover that they have literally bought garbage and then discard the product. The quality is so poor that the manufacturers impossibly can have considered them for actual usage. Biltema products are the DIY-shops equivalent of funfair raffle toy prices; virtually no commercial value and literally zero actual value.

@@letsgobrandon5800: The «test» performed here has absolutely nothing in common with serious product testing, and is entertainment only. Winning this test is no indication of high quality at all.

I’m suspecting that the fix was in. 🤨 I had my money on Fiskars. 💸

@@mumblesbadly7708 Nah I get it: the nice material fails sooner but in a safeish mode. so I guess it's easy to make super-hard toolheads but not ones that don't fail by turning into eye-destroying shrapnel?

Well, if you are striking some wood and hit a hard nail would you rather hit it with the axe that explodes or the one that bends?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpOThZSczK27qGg.html Not impressed. You have to reprofile the edge. And not a bit. They hold up well with the press well, that same thick edge makes it a lousy chopper.

Then in slow motion, lol

I thought that you can see it nicely on the high speed shot that the small axe gets destroyed? but maybe its not clear if you don't know it in advance?

@@HydraulicPressChannel sometimes is not clear tbh… and we are used to see the final results here on your channel. We love it !… thanks for the reply amigo ✨ 🪓

That would be Maul, not maw. and I agree, comparing an axe to a maul is not really a fair comparison.

Maul

no, in physics it's merely a matter of reference point which part moves and which doesnt and different reference points always need to lead to the same result.

But these are axes, not brackets. XD

@@kindredbarkmaw2509 learn what that term means first, then try to make fun out of someone, but after you learn the meaning of it i bet you won't because you'd realise how foolish you are

the first round went so well that I was over optimistic about my holders :D

I wonder if the angles had something to do with how well they cut compared to just being crushed

They didn't heat up much at all. The work done by the press is quite small since the distances were so small

Dum dum

No it's not, I machine scrap railroad steel all the time

Fascinating! Didnt thinknof that its amazing the forces the axes generate. Now you know why buildings get leveled

Says more about se-asia then 😅

@@AlexKall well yeah. biltema doesn't sell discrete components and parts to fix all their stuff though. turns out key to right to repair isn't as much the right, but the need for repair. thai domestic market local manufacture amps and stuff tend to be pretty bad but they are both cheap and repairable. even speaker woofers, rubbers and coils straight off the shop.

There are no fjords in Finland. Norway has them.

@@kareem8533 Oops.

Not really only difference is the effect of gravity and that's so incredibly weak compared to the power of the hydraulic press. Say if the top blade weigh 1.9 Kg and the press exerts 19 tons of pressure like in the last test then it's the weight adds 0.01 % to the pressure. But even then it's applied equally to the top and the bottom, so no difference what so ever...

Yes, they did some time ago.

And Hanna

@@perniciouspete4986 They split up a while ago Anni got tired of KZfaq although they remain friends. Everyone is ok about it.

I think that crushing and making it larger are contradictory terms. I have never seen a car put in a crusher that came out larger.

@Ian Biron Nah, the overarching property of chrome vanadium Steel is it’s extremely high rc (hardness), which breeds brittleness in its opposition of equality. Therefore, the wrench would just explode. Would be mad awesome to see a wrench explode though! One thing that could work though, is pressing the wrong size wrench into the bolt head. The bold head would give, and be pressed into the wrench eye... so that’s a possible video for sure!

Well, yeah. I'll bet even those camera cases have large ball bearings in the corners just to discourage crushing -- like bittering agent on a child's fingernails.

I'd buy him gifts in hopes they'd end up under the press, lol!

Coincidence Top or bottom they receive the same amount of pressure

Yes! Do oranges cut better than water? How would we know? Hmm...

The Biltema axe is mediocre out of the box, even though it doesn't come in a box... If all you want to do is split wood it will do OK, it just takes a bit more effort than it would with a good axe. But if you are using it to shape wood with any precision for carpentry you will want an axe with a better profile. The blade is to thick towards the edge to cut really well and it's not well sharpened from the factory. You can sharpen it which will make it a decent axe, but reprofiling it would take a lot of work. The larger splitting axe does a good job of splitting wood. Still not a fantastic axe but the weight and a decent edge is all you need for splitting. it's not like you will need an edge you can shave with or a profile that let it cut like a knife for that.