Wow. I sounded out of breath during the entire video! Holy Cow! Hmmm... maybe I need to get another one of these hatchets and show the modification process and then repeat the overview, now that I'm better at doing videos and have some better equipment... What do YOU think?

I bought one a few months back for around $20.00. It paid for itself immediately. I dismantled a porch at my dad's house. When I got home, I dismantled two old couches I had lying out in my yard. With a two-pound head, it made short work out of the items listed. It is worth every penny spent.

Other than removing the spike (which I'd keep for hooking on and dragging logs and the such) I love the modifications! I'd never think of adding inch marks on the handle but it was a great idea

MAN I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE MODIFICATION OF THAT HATCHET .GREAT VIDEO KEEP THEM COMING THANKS.

Sad to see the spike go, it’s super useful for many things, besides that I LOVE THE MODS!!!!

The mods turned out pretty sweet. The after look is Hultafors/Wetterlings or other Swedish style. Now it looks like a cool, old school bushcraft hand axe. I stop in the Harbor Freight in Canton every so often, but I've never noticed this fireman's hatchet. I'll have to keep my eyes open the next time.

I bought one at the beginning of summer I left the spike on it to dig holes

Yes please show how you modified & sharpened the axe! I am a budget prepped & beginner bushcrafter. Can't afford expensive gear!

Although the axe looks better modified, i would have sharpened the spike and left it on. It would come in handy for dragging logs around (like a picaroon?).

You can’t get rid of the spike! That makes it a fireman’s axe! That and some red paint. Which makes me wonder if Cerakote could be used? Dude, great looking axe, but I feel cheated not watching how you did that. That mirror edge was worthy of Krom. Again, amazing, and great job.

That’s the problem with Harbor Freight. You never know what you are going to get at any given point. I have a splitting axe that I sharpened and it is one of my favorites, I have a small boys Forrest type axe and it cant hold an edge at all. A fine file takes of more material than a grinding wheel. Same store, same Chinese Harbor Freight manufacturer, absolutely no consistency, looks like you picked the good one out of the pile.

I would enjoy watching the modification of the firemans hatchet.

Nice come out😊

Careful using that axe, just the right length that a mistrike will go right into your shin! Its got good weight too so yeah a glancing blow with that kinda momentum is gonna be hard to stop and might just pass right through a shin bone lol. Looks great though!

I went the other way with the spike and sharpened it too. It's been good for dragging rounds or moving pcs around. Yours looks like a genuine hickory handle, the one I got was some sort of Asian hardwood or something, very strange grain and it had a roll pin installed. It is loose now after some splitting and chopping. Think I am going to re-hang it eventually on a quality handle and do away with the roll pin. That head design is great for splitting. The bluing with super glue thing is interesting, i'll have to look in to that. Thanks for the vid!

Removing the spike runed the balance and lessened the weight.....

Looks like a winner! Nice job.

Nice job, looks beautiful

I'm thinking about doing something like that to make a viking war axe

Excellent video. Thank you.

Cool video👍 thanks for sharing. At first I was like, if you didn’t want the pick then why didn’t you just get the hatchet? But after seeing what you did to it I noticed it has a larger cutting edge and it is a few inches longer than the hatchet, plus this video is 5 years old and they might not have had the hatchet. Anyway did you end up making the video of your modifications?

New subscriber & just found your channel and enjoying. I really like what you did with that ax and would very much like to see the process.

please show us how you removed the spike and the other mods you made in another video

Yeah good informative video. I'll probably get one next and mod it out too. You did an excellent job removing the spike but I think I'll leave it on because it looks cool and different than the other axes.

I would keep the spike simply for asthetic

Would definitely like to see how you did everything with this hatchet

I have one and it’s superrrrrr good

I thought you were going to starting hacking at your leg to see how sharp it was 😢😂😂😂

I wanna see this process cuz I didn't understand the gluing part

Looks amazing I did the same thing. I just subscribed to your channel sir 😇

What does it weigh after removing the spike?

But how did you get the axe head from getting loose??? Mines keeps getting loose!

After moding this would you say this makes a good backpacking hatchet or is it on the bigger/heavier side for that still?

Dude, Why not leave it original? I get that you "saw" it in its final form, but it was manufactured as a fireman's axe (small) did it not have any use as such? Did you make something out of the spare steel?

What is the overall weight after the modifications?

How long do you think it will hold that edge?

I picked one up and within two swings one handed swings into softwood using the spike it was already loose...a horrible axe...

How hard was it to cut that spike off of the back? Would an angle grinder cut it off

What kind of tree is that you’re chopping on?

How did you cut the point off the head

Did you ever make the video on the mods?

i obliterated the handle in 5 minutes so idk how your axe held up

Ok all that was for smashing windows and stuff f fire men the on. Thing was used for fire men

I didn't learn anything!!!!