Can’t tell you how excited I was that Sisyphus is back! Go science!

My daughter tells her friends, "my papa loves bees and axes" Just bought another Gransfors Bruk.

Great video, love it! And so good to have you back posting in the name of axe science. That's a heck of a tease on a full-size felling axe, I better start collecting up empty aluminum cans to put a few more coins in my piggy bank.

I was wondering what you'd been up to. Great video, comrade! Entertaining and informative.

I think the mushroom knob on the handle is for working with thick mittens in the Russian winter.

Wonderful to see you are doing well. Great video. Looking forward to trying out the Lamaca handles this week!

I don't remember seeing a more dangerous chopping position in my lifetime.

Good to have you back mate! Hope all's good out your way

I've got 2 Toporsib axes - 1 hatchet and one bigger axe. They are great to use. Greetings from Russia.

Very interesting design. Cool video. So where can someone find a decent 30" curved handle these days?

Awesome video, only chanel on KZfaq I get excited about when I get an upload notification 👍

Those axes are very attractive. I like that “Nordic” design with the deeply cut beard.

Interesting..love the comparison

Good job 👍 😲 😀 👍

You had me at axe Hermitage ;)

That fenix grind from what i can tell looks very similar to how i sharpen my axes, especially the softer steeled ones get 1mm but most is 0.5mm. not 45 degrees though, more like 30ish

I’m getting a Fenix. Might be a little “thick”. Might only be 95% of the other axes. But you need a style rating.... and it wins. That thing looks boss!!

Nice Feld testing and I agree with you can never have to many axes ,!!👍👍👍👍😎

Good axe aim, you has it.

Opulate. ..opulate... opulate. Hmmm? Maybe some eclectic form/use/verbtense(?) of the word "opulent". Gota Google. Ahhhhh! Nothing. It was opulence! ...thought I was gonna add a new round to the magazine of my arsenal. Nope. Opulence, I know, I'm halfway deaf.

Awesome intro!!!!!

Hey Lane! It's Lane...I made my sister and her family watch The Hunt For Red October last night! How crazy Russian cool is that!?

That axe with the big hook on the front? It's used to reach over and pull down your opponent's shield so you can jab him in the face with the toe of the bit. Very thoughtful and convenient feature! I want one! And a shield.

Half dozen... dozen... three dozen... HAHA I'm crying!

Greetings from BC Canada Brother! I have a 2.5lb Toporsib Bobr (Beaver) that is a great axe, I would like to test out their Toporsib Boar model. though I had to slim down the haft. On recent years I have always favoured 'micro-convex' edges on my axes which had not compromised cutting ability, but significantly strengthening edges. I have been fascinated with axes since I was a boy in England. I have been looking for one of those Bison Oberhurtz axes, I have always liked the look of them. I have Gilpin, Elwell, Brades, Wetterlings, Gransfors, JB Stohler, Kolefors Bruk, Billnas, Hults Bruks, Norlund and more. Thanks for your well thought through videos.

I'm from the UK and it's rare to see a 36" handle over here most axes are 30" even on vintage axes.

Crazy

Hey are you still out there??

Haven't seen you in a while! How's it been?

19:16 excellent close up!

So glad you’re back. Can’t wait to see the Lamaca felling axe! On another note, how do you get movie clips into your videos without SaveFrom.Net?

Hi Lane, a very interesting and enjoyable video again ... thanks Buddy ! I happen to have a 1962 Arvika five-star plus a 2014 Gränsfors Bruks Felling Axe .. so i can estimate how huge this Toporsib actually must be. Wish i could try a Toporsib! By the way, speaking of Russians and axes ... do you know that guy Dmitry Tamoikin ? He puts heavy old eastern-european axe heads on deeply carved grips ... see www.axcombat.com / Cheers, Erik

I know I’m taking something from that Vid, those Knobs are прохладный👍🏻🇷🇺

Sisyphus, a little bit about the bolsheviks. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel-Prize-winning novelist, historian and critic of Communist totalitarianism: "You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution." It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators." The worst genocide in history wasn't the Holocaust ... in fact, it was perpetrated by members of the very same group of people who claim they were the victims of one. And it took the lives of 66 million (Solzhenitsyn's estimate of those who perished between 1918 and 1957), not 6 million. "Priests were crucified and had their eyes gouged out and tongues cut off. Their churches were burnt to the ground or turned into toilet houses or Synagogues. Some of the victims were boiled alive. Others were placed in boxes with rats or had hot lead poured into their mouths. Babies were cut out of pregnant women and slaughtered in front of the mothers. Some victim’s had their stomachs cut open and their intestines nailed to a pole and then were forced to run around the pole until their guts unraveled and they died. Sometimes the next day’s victim was forced to watch. Children were tortured in front of their parents. Women in front of their husbands." "In Kharkov, people were scalped. In Vorenezh, the torture victims were placed in barrels into which nails were hammered so that they stuck out on the inside, upon which the barrels were set rolling. A pentacle (usually a five pointed star formerly used in magic) was burned into the foreheads of the victims. In Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin, the hands of victims were amputated with a saw. In Poltava and Kremenchug, the victims were impaled. In Odessa, they were roasted alive in ovens or ripped to pieces. In Kiev, the victims were placed in coffins with a decomposing body and buried alive, only to be dug up again after half an hour."