$65 vs $300

i live in california and we have alot of australian eucalyptus trees around here . and its easier to split eucalyptus than it is to split ponderosa pine thats twisted and knotty and full of resin fatwood. its like hitting concrete

When you do it, the tree seems made of foam. Not when I do it 😅

Did you chop that piece of wood with that small axe? I imagine it would be hard to chop with a small axe like that (especially dry wood)... which would force you to bring a saw. And if you're bringing a saw then the point about wobbly batoning does not matter AS much. You're right about thicker knives being less useful for finer tasks, and I agree with you about the safety. But from the perspective of hiking and camping I would still say that a somewhat thick knife (e.g. mora robust) combined with a folding saw would weigh less, offer more utility, save time and save energy compared to an axe alone or an axe and a smaller knife. Well... I may be wrong about chopping wood with an axe like that. Maybe it's not as hard as I imagine?

Why not use a low grit/coarse diamond plate instead of a file? They take off material surprisingly fast and they need less pressure, just got to wipe them with a cloth periodically during use. I've been using those for a couple of years to reprofile my choppers which are hard enough to make file use difficult.

Nice work dude 👍

That's a hobnocker, hob on a tree nock it off, hobnocker, I call my big knife my hobnocker 👍😁

Awesome I want to buy the work axe. I know it’s heavy but I’m using it for exercise not just work 😊

i wonder if you can get a elwell to do that

its supposed to be so sharp you lose it inside the wood and have to look for it. Very nice is that the tuatahi work axe, did you just work the edge or the sides of the head too

Those chainsaws are the wrong color

Nice Ben! Very informative. BLO can be safe if you boil it yourself from raw linseed oil. The store bought stuff usually has additives in it. Great are handle finish!

Thanks for demonstrating the benefits of a small axe! Has really opened my eyes up to how good they are!

They make a ton of versions. Get a version closer to the length that you want next time.

Best summary of axe pattern & history ever….

Uncle Jack!! Lol

Thank you, I've been looking into Hudson bay's.

I need a tutorial on why his tool ends the swing rotated about 90 degree around the handle. I've not been around someone that does that.

My kids wanted to chop wood. I told them to look up axe wounds on google. They changed their minds real quick. Great content Mr. Scott 👍

I agree. Have a chat with a few old blacksmiths, they’ll give you some important perspective on handle thickness.

Wow! He took it down with one chop!

My dad also broke his fiskars axe. Now it is a bit shortie hatched. l wonder who designed axes to look like this monstrosity? Surely he took inspiration from stone age binding.

The GBSFA is an excellent tool for its purpose, I don’t have any complaints about the quality of the GBSFA 😊

Blisters. No matter how many times I split wood with axes or mauls I get freaking blisters almost immediately between thumb and pointer finger. Gloves or no gloves my skin is thin and just blister’s up.then Im out of comission till I heal up. Ive even resorted to taping my hands for more time on the log pjle. I guess its jist an affliction and I cant seem to build callouses.

Hey Ben, would you have some recommendations for light, medium, heavy axes I can use for specifically pollarding, I've been using around 2lb billhooks with long handles over the years but some of my trees have branches that would be better to take off with an axe I think so...

You didn’t get the edge of Ochsenkopf into the log for the penetration test. 👎

Jak się sprawuje Husqvarna ? czy jest dobrą siekierą ?

I think exceptions would be stuff like billhooks where the hook bites in and uses a shearing action, and khukuri where the belly is primarily the contact area if one is accurate. I would take a good billhook or khukuri (and have) over any of those fancy sharpened prybar survival knives, both the times I had to 'survive', once due to flash flooding (had to climb a tree to not get washed off, lost most of my gear) and another time due to horrible fog and rain that sent me miles off course (in the mountains, very little visability coupled with terrible brambles) it was my khukuri in one case and billhook in the other that saw me through. Whilst I like these light axes I feel they're less versatile overall.

Not worried about damaging the axe with something in the bark?

i wish i could do this everyday i enjoy it but where im at i dont know where to do this

Idk what more impressive the chopping or that clamp that thing is impressive

I swear I could feel it in my own hand with that trowel

Thanks Ben! Knowing and practicing proper Axemanship in this day and age is more important than knowing how to run and maintain power saws!

I'm glad I came across this video, Thank You

..I`ve read, when you hit it right, the sharp ones go easy through a steel toe cap...

I'm looking fwd to the Ben Scott Axe book with multi angle diagrams if pos... That popular buchanen smith one is toss

Oftentimes loggers on the West coast (of the US) would put 44" or 40" handles on thier Puget Sound pattern double bits. This axe reminds me of a Puget Sound minus the 2nd bit, very long and narrow.

your technique could do with some work young fella .

Nice

I've been watching Ben for years, and it's always surprising how accurate this guy is with this strikes. @08:15 to 8:30ish you can really see how this guy is a gd laser beam. It's crazy

When George did his underhand against you I thought that would have been a do for letting go of the axe?

Just to clarify you actually have to wear chainmail when chopping in the timbersports

Stihl Woodcutter?

THE WORLD NEEDS AXE HANDLES

By a Fiskars block buster. Unreal.

That axe looks at least a pound heavier and being swung twice as hard! But they both are great at what there intended for! Great axes.

How's the Tuatahi holding up?

7:14 And the world trembled when King Tuatahi struck timber! 🪓

Now thats a hit to remember 😂.

The Rinaldi axes are liked in South America, trade axes. So they can make a handle in the wild. Not like us! And they will use the head and a knife or machete to make a new one! The small ones are great camp axes. Instead of whacking a expensive knife. Right tool for the job. Even the caveman understood that! That Muller bits deep! Very nice.