What is the BEST Bushcraft Hatchet?
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2020
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In today's video we discuss attributes that lend their hand to making a hatchet either useful or detrimental to the bushcrafter. From ergonomics, to blade shape we narrow it down to find what will be the best form of hatchet to field and use in any bushcrafting situation.
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I have gathered a plethora of axes, hatchets and tomahawks over the past 50 years. I love them all, and admit some do certain jobs better than others. I like your observation about fatigue in the hand, but whatever hatchet you have will do. My tiny cold Steel Trail hawk is worthless for almost anything but throwing, but the same maker's Rifleman's hawk is my main limbing companion when cutting firewood for the winter. My Boy Scout and Estwing single piece hatchets have good profiles and have seen lots of heavy use such as chopping through elk joints -- no task for a delicate edge. My Gransfors Bruks Carpenter's axe is my favorite, but I shelter it from camp work and appreciate a more substantial hatchet like the Husqvarna. I think the differences between them all are minor in the long run, and your grading the Husky with an F might be a little severe.
Yep. This looks like the outside of Fairbanks. I'll never forget those trees and how cold it was. I remember one year it was -50 degrees outside and we still had to go to school.
Hatchets are made for splitting small rounds. If you want a chopper you buy a small boys ax. If you want to carve you get a carpenters ax or a traditional carving ax but with that aside the Husqvarna Hatchet has the big blunt head for splitting which is it's primary purpose as a camp tool. A razor sharp hatchet is pointless your not going to chop down a tree with it and it is not going to be a good splitting tool because it will bite into the wood instead of forcing the wood to split.
I guess we have to different ideals for a hatchet.
Different ideas is what makes the world go round. I didn't mean to sound like a troll in my comment. I love your channel been a subscriber for awhile your video actually convinced me to try out the Tom Brown Tracker which i'll admit took a while to get used to but it's a good knife I my opinion. Take care.
Excellent points, thanks.
Great review! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Depending on use I find the Husqvarna and similar heads excellent. I own that one and a gransfors bruks wildlife and small forest axe, and several other lesser known ones like bahco. On heavy Australian woods I love the Husqvarna for crafting purposes like roughing out self bows. And I find them adequate for felling trees of survival shelter size. If felling softer woods like pine I can see that the gransfors and similar are superior.
Edit: making the edge thin enough on all axes is a must but I found my Husqvarna ideal from the factory. Others haven't been as lucky I believe.
Thank you for the insight.
@@AlaskanFrontier1 no problem. Thanks for the videos 👍
It's pretty simple to fix the few short comings that the Husqvarna has. Any person with a few tools can turn it into a great axe well worth the 40 dollar price tag.
I couldn’t agree more with your analysis! You get what you pay for, after due diligence research.
Thank you! It really is the way things are.
Get a silky saw to go with your camp hatchet. The best combo ive found..
If you want to limb a fir tree, try a club, you’ll be safer and more efficient than with with your hatchet. Also, if you want to stick with the axe, keeping the trunk between the blade and your kneecaps would reduce the risk of injury.
Thats not bad advice. That is also a true point thank you
I APPRECIATE your knowledge and expertise but Most people who buy this
Hatchet just use it here and there, to cut this and that sometimes at home and camping and it works just fine for us who use it for small jobs. Way more information then I need but, nice to know an experts opinion on it.
Have you ever used the Eastwing hatchet? All metal design but great value.
I am not a personal fan of the those hatchets. But they do work for some.
Found the Echo 44cc saw is good for bush craft.
Hahaha
It's to bad you didn't show a view from the top down then we could see the difference between the 2 hatchet profiles.
Missed opportunity. Darn it!
Any opinion on the ew ESEE hatchet?
Hmm I will have to check it out!
Good info and review brother. I carry a hatchet pretty much any time I'm in the woods but nothing fancy. Just one I restored myself. God bless friend... Sub'd
Right on. Thanks for the sub!!
Try the husqvarna hiking hatchet!
Will do!
The worst hatchet as far as fatigue is the Marbles 13" hatchet. They actually take the same heavy axe head and just shove it on a thin little curvy handle. Its kind of like putting a sledgehammer head on a tack hammer handle. Makes no sense.
Yes 100% listen to this guy is obviously knows what he's talking about as he swings the acts towards his leg
Of course!
crkt chogan and a folding saw two knives
Okay!
The 13" Husqvarna for the average Outdoorsman is just a bad choice. Full-sized axe head on a hatchet-length handle. All of the usual shills with gear review channels have praised it as the greatest hatchet ever made. They'll mention the weight of the head, but downplay that disadvantage as much as possible. And then, completely ignore the other issues.
Yes, it's hand forged. But let's face it, at around $50 per "hatchet," how much time is that paid employee going to spend on each one? Very little time, I would wager. The Gransfors 13.5" Wildlife hatchet is 3x the cost. Also hand forged. Anyone examining the two side by side can clearly see which one was given the proper amount of time and attention. Yes, it's just over $150. That's going to be too much for some. But even at around $50, there are better choices out there than the Husqvarna.
Personally, i prefer tomahawks at the $50 price point. They are light weight and have a slightly longer handle than a typical hatchet that can be choked up on if needed. The main downside is the smaller cutting edge, but for limbing that is a relativity minor issue.
I just have the 15 dollar harbor freight axe.
Two of them, actually. First one came decent, second one had NO edge on the top. Both had good handles with perfect grain orientation and 2 of the german things that go into a wedge for the best fit.
I gave both many coats of linseed oil, stripped and patina'd one and I kept the other one black.
They chop very nicely and hold an edge nicely too.
My first one that I took the paint off is a lot thinner too with a slightly better profile. I can send it through 3 inch branches green or dry, and it's a 15 dollar hatchet. Matched it with a sheath and I don't even need better.
Second one that's thicker and came with a bad edge splits nearly as good but not quite. I need to remove more metal from it but decided to do it as I sharpen it.
Both of those hatchets are made by the same company, hultafors, husqvarna does not make axes, they just put their name on other peoples work, the steel will be good, remove the handle, reshape it then rehang it.
While I myself know next to nothing about axes the Husqvarna looks like the perfect candidate for creating the perfect hatchet 🤔🥺🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♂️🤣🤣 heh the FrankenHatchet 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bahahaha
Very cheap and real USA steel is hard to pass up, even if the "wrong" type. Think what and how may times you may use it or if you will sell it!
this 2 are both made by Hultafors or Hults bruks
Looks alot like a forest axe head on a hatchet handle.
Yeah, I wonder if replacing the handle with a longer one would make it more useful? If you don't like the one you have you have nothing to loose in trying.
Very true.
quite possibly
Sorry but this is a poor comparison, you should have compared the Husqvarna Camping axe 596 27 08‑01 as it's head is almost identical to the HB, also Husqvarna comes from the same forges as the expensive Swedish axes at a third of the price.
Fatigue always comes back to personal technique and mastering your tool. All too times today, reviews about perfection, weight, ballance,,,,,,,,, bollocks. Just go ask your grandparents what they did, back in the day. Blow this shit outta your ass guys. 🤘
Well you see, in Alaska the more expensive hatchet will work because most the wood in Alaska is soft wood. In the eastern woodlands both those hatchets are great to have. The less expensive Husky is a good splitter hatchet and the cheeks can also be slimed down also. Just my opinion.
Fair point
Watching your axe work is seriously painful. Limbing on the same side of the trunk, swinging towards legs, general aim (or lack thereof)…
Sorry
One would not use a hatchet to split a cord of wood. One would use a 28 to 33 inch axe or what I use in conjunction with the full size axe is an 8lb. Sligehammer and two metal wedges.
While I agree with your statement, we are talking about Bushcraft, you may get a cord to split, that is not the most realistic situation.
Husqvarna, lol
lol okay.....