Fiskars Chopping Axe | Overstrike Test

Fiskars Chopping Axe | Overstrike Test | Shotgun Test!

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7 жыл бұрын

Extreme Fiskars Axe Stress Test!
Pretty well every axe I have ever used or owned (Estwing excluded) has featured a handle that is generally quite susceptible to damage from overstrikes. I took my near new Fiskars 28" Chopping Axe out to find a solid hardwood tree to put their handle to the test. Much to my surprise, and after much abuse, the tree nearly failed to put so much as a scuff on the handle! These Fiskars handles are tough as nails!!! But are they shotgun proof?
Music:
MC Cullah - A Dangerous Game

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@talexander7217 6 жыл бұрын

Well, if Manglerstar hates them, I'll get two of them.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@michaelrausch9798 5 жыл бұрын

He's a jerk.

@randymagnum143 5 жыл бұрын

C'mon now! He's a self proclaimed internet expert!

@mackarof77 3 жыл бұрын

manglestar :D

@ckcoolic 3 жыл бұрын

bUt It Isn't An HeIrLoOm tOoL

@elirave4027 4 жыл бұрын

Taken out of context, it pretty funny seeing someone just wacking a tree then saying "oh thats painful" and then just keep on smacking. Have a like for that

@James-ke5sx 6 жыл бұрын

Many years ago I bought a wood handle axe went to do a job and my customers son used it he took one single swing and hit it on the neck and that was the end of it now I own a Fiskars for the last 20 years no problem

@theprophetez1357 3 жыл бұрын

All my hatchets, axes, sledge, and large hammers have a collar of pipe insulation taped just below the head. Since starting this almost 40 years ago I have yet to have a handle break. Even with other employees using them. Before using that trick I spent way too much time and money replacing handles. Try it you, won't regret it.

@James-ke5sx 3 жыл бұрын

@@theprophetez1357 My Sledge hammers all have a thick hard rubber around the neck shaped like a 'V' to absorb shock like those highway safety barrels. You are right to put something around the neck.

@JC-fj7oo 4 жыл бұрын

He tried to break a fiskars and ended up damaging a sapling, a tree, a cell tower and possibly his hands. Then he shot it with a shotgun which turned it into a hatchet.

@turtlewolfpack6061 7 жыл бұрын

Anyone like Wranglestar who attempts to discredit the Fiskars axes is an idiot, period. I have an old 7850 hatchet (the predecessor of the X7 and the 7550) that is still going strong after a lot of Canadian winters and my old X15 is a go to tool. Dont get me wrong, I love my classic wood handled axes and tomahawks but the Fiskars are a hard working tool.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

+TurtleWolf Pack My thoughts exactly!

@simonpalmer8033 Жыл бұрын

I can't stand wranglestar.....

@tapanilofving4741 6 жыл бұрын

The axe is simple and modest, but tough. Just like us Finns 😂

@Mrplacedcookie 6 жыл бұрын

Tapani Löfving Just my thought as well.

@kaizoebara 5 жыл бұрын

Hurray for Finland! Love the Finnish tools I have.

@CilicianElite 5 жыл бұрын

Finns are cool ppl. :)

@alexandercarder2281 3 жыл бұрын

I love my Fiskar X7 ☺️ my first hatchet 🪓

@johnnywishbone932 2 жыл бұрын

I went to school with a Finn. He drank 24 beer and helped carry the “drunk” people off the beach! I never saw anything like that before.

@jarredjones3358 5 жыл бұрын

My first "Axe" was a little gerber branded fiskars hatchet, and I received the same axe in the video as a gift several years ago. Over the years I've accumulated more than a dozen fantastic vintage axes, many on the original handles. I still keep the fiskars around, it makes a great truck axe. More recently, it's become a "Brother" axe. I have good enough technique that I wont overstrike or swing the bit into the dirt, but the same cant be said for my family. My fiskars sees a lot of use and abuse, it's still going strong. They get a lot of snide remarks and derision from axe snobs and gear queens, but they actually cut really well and you'd have to be an absolute ape to break one.

@Scablands_Scavenger 5 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for doing this, I was looking for an axe to mount on my 4x4. I am normally a nostalgia wood handle guy but I wanted something that would not be affected mounted on the outside of a truck during crappy weather etc. I had doubts about the durability of the handle and would have tested the axe to its failing point.... but you did a fantastic job showing the resilience of these things, some of us need to see it in a failed state before we can trust it. Again, a well appreciated video !!

@lumberjackoutdoors933 5 жыл бұрын

No prob, thanks for the comment!

@poisoncobra7 2 жыл бұрын

Leaving it out in the weather won't do anything from my experience i have an older X10 and I've neglected it so much, i forgot about it and it was sitting in a stump for years outside, the axe head was completely rusted but i removed the rust on a wire wheel and reprofiled the edge and now it's razor sharp and ready for use once again. These axes are tough as hell

@general_paine5914 7 жыл бұрын

Go-Pro at the end of a shotgun... now that's a MAN's selfie stick.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

If only it could handle the recoil like me! rofl

@mickmcloughlin1646 3 жыл бұрын

Bwaaahahaha. Now that's some funny shit ya'll.

@jordanabraham4113 2 жыл бұрын

More like Kurt Cobains selfie stick

@MAAAH1581 3 жыл бұрын

you made me love this axe more and more

@kylepippet3152 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve worked for a tree service, landscaping teams, and run a farm with 2 houses that use wood burning stoves for the main source of heat. I also tend to follow the “traditional” school of thought that wood handles are easier to replace in the bush. But I can tell you this axe has served me faithfully without flaw. So much so I now even have my father who is an old school woodsmen now swinging one also. The only one minor complaint I have is that if you are to hit any metal in wood or a hard rock the edge will damage. Nothing I couldn’t work out with a file and sharpening stone. This axe along with my Silky Big Boy and my Grandsfors Burk Small Forest axe are in my main pack any time I’m doing any kind of tree work/wood processing.

@HHSTT 7 жыл бұрын

Now you have a Fiskars X5.

@alexhamon9261 4 жыл бұрын

I've got an X27, it's seen seen so much use, overswings, misuse driving wedges with it like it says not to. Taking care of one like my life depended on it and not misused, I expect it would be the last piece of equipment fail me.

@BushOgre 3 жыл бұрын

Great test. Exactly what I need to see. Thanks!!!!

@LifeSavingDefense 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Never heard of Fiskars before this video. I think I'll buy one just so my decendents 50 yrs from now can have something I owned.

@kindnessiscontagious3669 6 жыл бұрын

Just picked up the X25 after spending hours on KZfaq going back and forth between Wooden and Polymer Handles. Glad to see I made the right choice! I don't plan on shooting my Axe so I guess it will serve me well! XD Great vid, Man! Earned a Sub

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!!

@vihreelinja4743 3 жыл бұрын

will last longer than you :)

@davidmorse8432 5 жыл бұрын

It never ceases to amaze me what people will go thru to make a KZfaq video.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 5 жыл бұрын

You mean to satisfy their own curiosity, and share it? Why thank you!

@davidmorse8432 5 жыл бұрын

@@lumberjackoutdoors933 I mean encourage a condition called carpal tunnel syndrome. Ever heard of it?

@lumberjackoutdoors933 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidmorse8432 I've been climbing trees and cutting full time for over 10 years. A few overstrikes on a little maple is the least of my worries, lol.

@davidmorse8432 5 жыл бұрын

@@lumberjackoutdoors933 I know you are still young and you think you are invincible, but the abuse you subject your body to today will come back to haunt you in your later years. It's bad enough when you get abuse from working your regular job. Why subject yourself to unnecessary abuse just for a little fame? I can't tell you how to run your life but I know from experience that one needs to be a friend to their body, not an enemy.

@scottkowalski2697 2 жыл бұрын

I literally just ordered one. After this video I don't anticipate any buyer's remorse!

@ryannolan8449 5 жыл бұрын

Good shit i keep buying wooden axes and ive had so many break on me so i figured i start looking for a new kind and i found fiskars and just now watched this video cause i wanted to make sure i am making the rite choice and by the way when u miss with and wooden handle axe it stings so what the hell is the difference how much more could it possibly hurt and i dont plan on missing but just incase i do over swing cause ive done it ive had friends break them but thank u for making this video appreciate it im grabbing me the friskars this week

@kaizoebara 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this painful test, man! Can only imagine how your arms reverberated with each swing... o_O

@bryanphilyaw1814 3 жыл бұрын

15 years on YT... You've made the best product review video so far... Kudo's... to you and Fiskar's. Bad ass handles!

@gangunitsergeantmartinez7656 5 жыл бұрын

How.do your hands feel now? I am happy I bought the Fiskers X27. Good video.

@Mrplacedcookie 6 жыл бұрын

Send it in to Fiskars...

@mickmcloughlin1646 3 жыл бұрын

Ya know, that might be a bit interesting. They claim free replacement no questions asked.

@dannymorse9522 4 жыл бұрын

Awsome video!

@lumberjackoutdoors933 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@trungminh321 6 жыл бұрын

You got a new sub from me sir

@BogdanHet 7 жыл бұрын

So did you manage to make a handle for the head? Please do a video show the mounting for the Friskars.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

Still have plans to do so, mostly waiting for the bugs to thin out a bit - stay tuned!

@foreverendeavors6210 3 жыл бұрын

I've gotta tell ya, I am a hickory guy as much as anyone, but for brut force toughness, this is just undeniably the one to have in that situation.

@paulchambers686 2 жыл бұрын

made in Finland where they have pride in quality and workers are well taken care of and paid

@joewilliam9315 4 жыл бұрын

For the price buy 2 and keep a spare in your truck or at base camp. You're going to be so far away from both of those that breaking your ax handle is life threatening?

@mickmoriarty7780 6 жыл бұрын

Hard to beat. I have an X7 hatchet which is like a razor, great little hatchet. A year of ttwo ago, I bought a big splitter with a plastic / whatever handle and it seemed useless, too much spring in the handle I suppose. A friend recommended a Fiskars splitter and man!!! It was like changing gears going up a hill! Impressive splitting to say the least. The axes don't seem to be available in Australia (we don't use axes much as our woods are mega hard and won't split easily with an axe). I use an axe to test if trees ar hollow before I fell them and not much else, but I'd like one of these Fiskars axes. It's a shame you whacked it with the shotgun, I would have put it into service and see how long it lasts. I'm betting it would have seen you out.

@packetbomb1420 3 жыл бұрын

Bro, i know this comment is from 2 years ago, but if anyone in Australia is struggling to find the Fiskars gear, get into your local Bunnings store =)

@viktoly2499 5 жыл бұрын

"..If you're out in the bush and this thing breaks.." Well yea, if a megaton class nuke explodes over your tent and half of chinese armored forces roll over you and your axe, it might break. There will always be those so called "hard treestumps in the fire" whom resist things just for the heck of it, usually without any logical reason. I've used axes for all my life as well, all 40+ years and have destroyed countless wooden handles by overstrike. Way too many to ever go back to them. With the handle hole, they might be a bit more easier to fix in the bush as you mentioned, but then again, if that composite handle breaks on you in the bush, you should go buy some lottery tickets as well, because you'll probably beat the almost nonexistent odds there too.

@TheAllotmentWineCo 2 жыл бұрын

This is superb! What a generous and refreshingly open, unsentimental 'review'. Great Stuff!

@TheAllotmentWineCo 2 жыл бұрын

The boy of the household is raring to go and get one now!

@albertravelo8558 3 жыл бұрын

A wooden axe would of broke along time ago. I got a 28 in fiskars chopping axe and it cuts great. Honestly if I had one axe to choose from on a long trip in the woods a fiskars would be my choice.

@onixpyro3883 7 жыл бұрын

where is the video showing how u attach the head to a wooden handle?

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

Haven't tried it yet, super bad year for biting insects so I havn't been lingering in the bush lately. Bugs just started getting better though, soon!

@onixpyro3883 7 жыл бұрын

I ment the broken fiskars head

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

I know, haven't tried it yet. Soon - stay tuned! :)

@MrStevielod 7 жыл бұрын

why not try re-handleing it the way it is, if you ever broke it in the bush it would likely break in a similar way. So re-handling it as is is the most logical way to compare a broken wood handled axe vs fiskars

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

That's an excellent point Steve! It would likely be much easier!

@onixpyro3883 7 жыл бұрын

holy shit man that is so strong...how do they even do that...I just got am x10 and I loove it...also have a gb small forest axe but the x10 might come up on top...cant believe I said that

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

It really comes down to personal preference, Fiskars make a quality axe for getting work done!

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see the people that praise hardwood handles and denounce fiskars keep up with me doing any real work. They spend wayyy more time oiling and polishing their axes than actually working them! :)

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, I was just having a conversation. Am I trying to make money on youtube yes, do I know how to swing an axe - fuck yes I do. I've been working as a professional Arborist for 10 years, Forestry graduate. I've cut down 1000's upon 1000's of trees, and spend the rest of my time recreating in the forest. I've split more wood by hand than you have total axe swings over a lifetime. I guarantee I could work circles around your ass you little troll "I own 13 axes." Rofl you are hilarious bud, for a second I was mad and figured I'd just block your ass, but hey this is too friggin funny. I'll stick around to see what kind of BS you come up with next hahaha. You didn't even respond to my response, that was an old comment responding to Onix, maybe if you remove your head from your ass you'll be able to figure things out lol - I'll be here waiting for your next spastic outburst hahahaha - ohhh god sooooo funny!

@aLatios 6 жыл бұрын

@Lumberjack Outdoors Pay no mind to that idiot. Clearly he's a spaz or has some other serious issues. I think your video was pretty good. I'm glad you blew up that FIskars. Why? Because I wanted to see if it would BLOW. That's why I clicked the video! What a concept! :D

@chopsddy3 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of burning the head off and ruining its temper, you could have jammed a branch into the hollow remaining portion of the handle beneath the head. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. I’ve wondered what that head looked like without a handle.

@rgjr.6055 5 жыл бұрын

Good video, you just sold me an axe.

@Simon-dx7ep 5 жыл бұрын

holy crap

@heidistenius4153 6 жыл бұрын

Here in Finland we can make solid tools like Fiskars axes etc.!!

@ChiquitaSpeaks 4 жыл бұрын

Dino Hauska don’t think so

@THEfromkentucky 7 жыл бұрын

I love my X7 hatchet.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

I have an X7 as well, it has been abused for 4 years now and still solid. I split sugar maple for my small stove with it, knotty gnarly stuff that I just repeatedly chop at until they split or turn into chips lol. It's been left out in the rain for a month, in the back of my truck. Ice, snow, humidity in the shed. You'd be hard pressed to break one of these outside of excessive age and some real obscene abuse! Thanks for the comment!

@crocsonletsgo9665 4 жыл бұрын

I broke my x27 yesterday. Anybody have a link or number for warranty?

@hunterthompson6295 4 жыл бұрын

Sure you did. Prolly on Gerber/fiskars website under customer services.

@gregorteply9034 Жыл бұрын

How?

@mikewilliams6086 3 жыл бұрын

Tgeres a reason why all the trade heavy duty tools have fibre glass or composite handles now. Spades shovels sledge hammers and so on...you just proved something we have know for years now..

@vegaszen 5 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to buy a fiskers Even after hearing everyone hating on them

@thegreyghost2789 6 жыл бұрын

You probably could have come out and beat on that tree for the next 10 years and the tree would have rotted away before the handle broke!

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

My hands couldn't take it - haha!

@donnadoes5738 2 жыл бұрын

Never bring a fiskars x15 to a shotgun fight?

@spyrokidd 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. I'd consider cutting 3/4 of this material though... 23 minutes was quite long! Awesome axe though, nice job 'testing' it

@lumberjackoutdoors933 7 жыл бұрын

+Doug Petersen I agree, it was long. Thanks for the comment :) I'll keep working on it!

@michaelpirrone 6 жыл бұрын

If he didn't keep it all, people'd say he edited it.

@mykolajMykolaj 4 жыл бұрын

Ok,handle is good.What about the blade? All tell what they are to soft

@SirGalath 4 жыл бұрын

They dont have the best edge holding but have great toughness, edge will roll instead of cracking or chippping every time. A good choice for a beater.

@jonathancaldwell4195 2 жыл бұрын

I’m almost positive the handle is made of a type of Teflon!!

@samipietila1661 5 жыл бұрын

Don't bring an axe to a shotgun fight?

@Steve_G88 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for destroying your hands and arms for our entertainment! lol

@vihreelinja4743 3 жыл бұрын

First time i see a broken fiskars. and the last xD Fiskars is our only defence against the russians thats why they are tougher than nail.

@Johnny53kgb-nsa 9 ай бұрын

Timber!

@hksjoshua 5 жыл бұрын

superglue will fix it right up

@sn0wblind133 5 жыл бұрын

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Well that quote pretty much sums up this video :D

@iruwild 2 жыл бұрын

I guess shooting with shotgun is not covered under warranty?? Haha

@timweber162 2 жыл бұрын

After seeing this, anyone who thinks they may have to re handle it in the bush, probably should not be in the bush in the first place.

@CilicianElite 5 жыл бұрын

The polymer handle transfers the shock into your hands. That’s why it’s so painful.

@ChiquitaSpeaks 4 жыл бұрын

Also bc overstrike hurts hands period

@christiansmith4421 Жыл бұрын

Dang, do axes start shaking in their racks when walk buy them in the store…. Poor axe gave u all it had

@edwardnavoy1261 6 жыл бұрын

let's see you do that to a wood handle axe.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

I did - it broke! Haha

@mikeboone4425 6 жыл бұрын

You do know they put a cutting head at the end of the handle for cutting . Wranglestar does not take anything into the woods he can't fix in the field which makes perfect since to any one who does go into the woods for a living.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 6 жыл бұрын

+Mike Boone You should probably check out the my "Re-Haft A Fiskars Axe" video. Thanks for checking out my channel, let me know what you think of the rest of it! Cheers ;)

@scottmurphy4946 4 жыл бұрын

this axe is not good for hacking down hydro towers *noted*

@cornenothome4191 5 жыл бұрын

Such a waste shooting it, you made your point by hurting your hands and put a few dents in it.

@lumberjackoutdoors933 5 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't really, because I wanted to make a video re-hafting a Fiskars axe. So I needed to break it first, hence the shotgun. Plus - it was fun! lol

@patrizia9673 4 жыл бұрын

Solo un americano può sparare ad una scure, ma quanto è scemo questo da uno a dieci?

@paulhomsy2751 2 жыл бұрын

Fiskars with an A as in bars, not FiskErs as in whiskers. Sorry but with a name like yours, you don't look the part and your "project" is absurd. If after more than 60, 100, 200 overstrikes there isn't a mark...Try to destroy something else. The best wooden hickory handles don't take five overstrikes to crack or split.