I bought the Fiskars. It’s a great axe for the money. My factory edge was very sharp. Great chopper. I also have the x27 splitter. Another great tool from Fiskars.

¨I´m very easily distracted¨ Lol!! I´m too. Very interesting and fun to see. Subbed! God Bless.

These are the 2 if the 3 axes I'm debating on buying...the third is the Husqvarna. Great video and please keep em comming. Subbed!

I might have to post a video of a CS Trail Boss with proper sharpened bit and removal of the rust preventative film.

Great video very informative

My trail boss was about the same. Handle is really round on it though. I thinned the handle, dropped the head a couple inches on the shoulder (The barrel wedges were really in there!) And I made the top flat like a Hudson Bay axe. The temper was actually soft in the area I cut off so I pretty much had to.

My edge on my trail boss hold s up great, get 2 or 3 uses out of it before a little tune up

that CS isnt really intended for wood I.M.O. I think it was meant more as a murder weapon. That narrow angle on it would sever limbs like nobodies business.

Bonjour So which one is the best ?

I agree the trail boss is a good axe. It feels like a real axe. I have both it and the Fiskars axe. I also have a half a dozen vintage True Temper axes that I have had for 40 years. I use the Fiskars axe to cut roots on oak stumps that I do not want to use my good axes on, I will not say the Fiskars is a POS. It is just not my kind of axe and I only use it when I do not care what it hits. I used the trail boss last weekend when I cut down a 24 inch maple tree. It did not cut down the maple but it was a big help cutting it down and up. I cut it down with my husky 455 Rancher but there were times when I needed an axe and the trail boss worked perfectly.

Very entertaining!

What brand is the axe you have leather on?

I may have missed it but did you sharpen the CS axe? I love the CS tomahawks and use them a lot but all of the CS choppers Ive seen were blunt from the factory. The Fiskars I know and love although the X15 is not as well balanced as the newer black handle 28" Chop Axe. The newer Fiskars black handle axes and hatchets heads only have cheap black paint however, not the grey teflon of the older X series. You are correct that the hafts are not a pleasure to use or look at as strong as they are. My classic axes like my old Hults Bruks 3.5lb Montreal Pattern is much more fun.

I have a Fiskars x25, done about 100 hours on it so far, I hate the handle too, what I most hate about it is that it works so good so I can't really justify spending more money on something else. Gives a blister on pinky finger if I haven't used it in a while though. I think I might buy an x15 now.

Very glad I saw this one and that you gave the handle measurement of the trail boss. In the UK it comes with a shorted handle 23inch not the 28 mentioned. Which is ultimately why I got another longer handled axe

I've noticed that the tempering and heat treat isn't very consistent with Cold Steel tools. I've owned most of their machetes and five of their axes/tomahawks. Their machetes are especially bad sometimes. So soft you can't use them without rolling the edge on a couple of them. Some are only soft in a few places and others are great. Their axes are a little softer than most of my axes which I actually like. But they actually hold their edges pretty well and are easy to sharpen. I cut mostly oak and hickory and sometimes it's dead and hard. I've taken big chunks out of several of my full sized axes over the years but have yet to have my Cold Steel axes fail like that. I really like my trail bosses performance, it chops really well for a little axe imo. I hope you do some more big axe arena comparisons. Those are awesome videos!

The cold steel isn't a heavy duty axe, it's for light duty axe and is great for throwing

There is no factory edge on the cold steel. You have to sharpen it before use. I payed 24 bucks for mine. It’s a good axe at twice the price.

HB going to win against Cold Steel ever time.

Since not all your axes were from the factory, you should have sharpened them all prior to testing. Even if they were all new out of the box though, I still would say to sharpen them since one reason the cost is different between them is the level to which the manufacturers finish them; such as a higher cost company will put the edge on, whereas the cheaper company with ship the axe without a good edge to save cost leaving the customer to fine tune it. As a reviewer you should strive to to conduct comparisons more accurately. If you say, well I'm just a guy on KZfaq, then I say... well what are you doing on KZfaq making videos if you don't care about the quality of your content?

Thanks for the Video!! But Why did you compare your personal well sharpened axe to the other 2 factory edges? everyone knows a factory edge in all but the most expensive axes is usually garbage. I always expect to sharpen an axe when i buy it.

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Fiskars are great axes

1055 isn’t a great axe steel. Hence you constantly need to dress the edge.

I could tell he swung harder with the fiskars he wanted it to win

The fiskars hatchet is better than the trailboss

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