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07-24-2012, 02:08 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 2,335
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Hi...
A short, double-bitted axe was one of Nessmuk's (Google him if unfamiliar) favorite camping tools. I think he had only three tools if I recollect right...his axe...his specially designed knife...and his pocket knife.
He sure knew how to live off of the land...!!
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09-18-2012, 02:12 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: New Jersey Posts: 24
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Anyone use Gerber axes? I like the compact design of them, but not sure if they're good quality...
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09-19-2012, 03:24 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 540
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Originally Posted by EmberMike  Anyone use Gerber axes? I like the compact design of them, but not sure if they're good quality... | Gerber axe is what you consider a standard, as for the price. Fiskars makes those and they are by no means bad, but there are better axes and a lot more expensive.
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09-19-2012, 03:46 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 761
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Sometimes I like using tomahawks. They have lot less chopping power but are usually lighter than axes so they are easier to use for finer tasks. Still beat any knife for chopping though.
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09-19-2012, 01:08 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: In a house with a tin roof Posts: 598
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The idea of having both seems a bit too much but I would end up with an axe (never know what you might face) over a knife any day. Now if they could just make something in between those two, that might do the trick better.
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09-20-2012, 08:52 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: South Louisiana Posts: 422
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I've said this before but i aint an axe guy. When camping i aint planning to build a cabin or split a cord of fire wood. They are heavy and not being an expert I find them hard and dangerous to use. my family always did their woodsman stuff with a cane knife. its kinda like a short fat machette. The blade is thin and that makes it lighter than an axe and can go through a tree almost as fast. Good for brush and plenty good for camp fire fuel. In a pinch it can be used to clean fish and game. If i hadda choose it would be a cane knife to be stuck with. I guess das why I got one in my jeep, another in the camper, and one in my shed for around the house stuff.
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09-21-2012, 09:15 AM
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#17 | | Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Goatneck, Texas Posts: 1,580
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Remember, this is a survival tool and not a backpack tool though it might come to that depending on what has happened.
Disclaimer:
Do not consume these thoughts or ideas if you have a history of high blood pressure, heart problems, tendency to get your panties in a bunch, mangina issues, no sense of humor, realization that you need to wear a tin foil hat, lick glass, want to cry like a sissy or still live with your mom. | |
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09-21-2012, 02:14 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 2,335
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Hi...
I've carried both axes and hatchets...the hatchet on my belt and the axe in the vehicle. I don't carry a hatchet any more, but having an axe handy sure helped me out a couple of times when a tree or tree branch blocked the road.
When afield, a machette is my choice. You just have to be careful in the cold. Trying to cut frozen wood with a machette can easily chip out nicks in the blade.
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09-21-2012, 02:26 PM
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#19 | | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 1,625
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The rougher the country and the more wooded it is, the more you can still make a case for an axe even in a backpack. It can be used for heat and cooking, and can build shelters in the bush. Or even a canoe. For people that backpack in places with permits, quotas, signs, and rules against making a fire there is no point in having one.
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09-21-2012, 11:28 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Idaho Posts: 3,791
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Seems to me, people from different parts of the country have preferences to tools best utilized where they are. With some variations based on the education of using certain tools. Axes in the heavier forests, heavy machete type knives in the heavy growth of the Southeast, knives in the desert, plains and heavier populated areas. More people tend to be trained with knives so that is their preference. Those of us that grew up chopping sage out of fencelines, splitting firewood, and cutting posts prefer the axe. For me, a knife is used for dressing out the game animals. I only carry one the rest of the time out of habit, and a machette is only good if it has a hook on the end for the sugar beet harvest. (nobody else here remembers those days of walking the fields, lopping of the tops and chucking the beets into the trucks, all by hand) But I can see where one would sure be handy down in the La swamps of Cappy's.
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