Boys Axe Test! Brades, Muller, Hults Bruk vs. Tallowwood
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2023
- Giving the current Muller Canada 1000, Hults Bruk Montreal 2.5, and vintage Brades Criterion 2.25, a quick test run in some 300mm/12inch-plus Tallowwood Gum (Eucalyptus microcorys) out in the Aussie bush.
Although these "pulpwood" axes are historically said to be "all that is needed" for timber up to and around the 12-inch mark, they're a lot smaller than the ideal 4 or 4.5lb Tassie patterns usually used for timber this size in Australia- but they can get the job done. Taking smaller chips, making step cuts, and stacking your cuts accurately makes a difference, but it's still going to take some time.
Cheers for checkin out the vid!
Dedicated you are Mr. Kurt. Beautiful demonstration and editing sir...
Thanks Mr B, cheers for checkin it out!👍👍🪓
I was wondering about boys axes in Australia and you've answered my question.... awesome... subbed!
That's awesome mate! I wasn't real keen on em at first but I've found they're a pretty handy tool to have in the arsenal. The HB 1.2 is one of the first axes I'd replace if I lost em all. Cheers for subscribing man, hopefully more vids up soon👍👍🪓
Excellent work Kurt 👏
An absolute JOY to watch ...
Thanks a lot mate, much appreciated!👍👍🪓
"Destroying" that tree with fast accurate hard hits without heavy breathing: Chapeau!!!
Thank you mate, and cheers for watching!👍👍🪓
@@kurts64 You are absolutly welcome! Greetings to down under.
Accuracy and power in abundance! Great video Kurt 👍
Cheers for watching mate!👍👍🪓
Brades. From the " black country ' - the birth place of the industrial revolution. Just restored a brades chisel handed down to me from my 99 year old Grandfather. From the 1800 hundreds. It has now come home as I live in Worcestershire.
Nice! Brades made some great tools, cool to have that family connection too. Cheers for watching mate👍👍🪓
Heck yeah Kurt great job !!!! Awesome video mate, i must say you did scare the hell out of me, glad you still have your toes !!!! I love how that brades came out and the ring of that muller, and ya can’t got wrong with the tried and true HB !!! What a team !!! I totally agree with you that tree may have been a bit big for the boys axes, but like you said they will do the job … at some point they do become inefficient of the tree of too big “that’s why they invented tassies” 😂 I love going out in the woods with a boys axe and a full size axe !! Awesome video Kurt and I give you props for choppin in the rain 🤙
Cheers mate! Haha I'm glad they're still attached too! Yep a pretty wedgy full-size teamed up with something like these would be a killer combo and probably all most would need, save for a hatchet and a beater. Thanks again Joey👍👍🪓
What!!! I missed a Kurt video! 😮 watching now.
Thanks mate!👍👍
Great video Kurt. I am always impressed with your accuracy. I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on the efficiency of these axes on larger wood. I chopped a similar size log the other day with both a 2.5 and 3.5lbs axe and the difference was night and day. Half the swings with bigger chips. These axes definitely have their place though.
Cheers mate! They were for sure disadvantaged in this timber but the next vid I'll put them more into proper use. Definitely a useful bit of gear in the right circumstance.
Nice save at 2:30! I woulda thought the brades would throw chips better than it did. Looked like it had the best cheeks for it.
Haha thanks mate! The brades has a nice shape for sure, but with a bit of wear over the years plus my pretty severe filing job I reckon it just ended up a bit light. Still a nice axe but probably more suited as a bushcraft or small cordwood tool than an all rounder now I reckon. Cheers Chimmy!
Nice work Kurt!
Thanks mate!👍👍
Looks like pretty slow going. You should find that on smaller diameter logs, boys’ axes go from being a pain to being a joy to use.
Cheers Tim, yep in the right timber they are the ideal- light, manoeuvrable and efficient. All great axes though, we'll give em a more suited task soon!
Really nice to watch, that tallow wood has a beautiful color to it.
Thanks alot mate, it is beaut timber, good for building and goes OK for knife handle scales too👍
Great video Kurt! Love the ring tone! Right on cue!
Hahaha Deliverance country! Thanks mate👍👍
First . Loving the accuracy . You guys have had a fair amount of rain ( better than bushfires) great job Kurt .
So close! Kevin just beat ya! Thanks mate👍👍 yeah it's been pretty mild up here this summer, I'll take rain over bushfires for sure. Cheers Ivan 🪓
How were the handles in the rain? That was pretty wet for chopping. Nice video. Just shows how difficult timber like that is without weight behind the axe. I was wondering how the camera was staying dry. I once put a cardboard box over a camera so it didn't overheat in the sun haha. Similar productions we got going.
🤣🤣 high budget productions! I was actually surprised it was the Muller that glanced- it's got the most race-like handle of the three, deep with flat sides. The HB is a nice oval but even with the laminate swell has a fairly small grip. If any were gunna give grief I would have expected the Brades, I left that pretty much a stock, Council-style with no shaping to the shaft or swell at all. I've just put together another Brades on the same handle, but tuned the sides-and-swell and the heads a 2.75lb model, so we'll see how much difference that makes
Nice job!
Thanks mate!👍👍
The way the steel rings on those Biebers is crazy.
It is nuts hey!
My stihl 1926s sing the same tune 😊
Awesome video Kurt! Love the boy’s axe line-up! I’ve got a muller Canada like yours in the works, still need to thin the handle down from factory. Looks like it will be a fun limbing axe.
Nice work getting some footage even though the rain kept up. The umbrella was a good save! I like your little tripod chair too.
Like you said, any day you get to chop some wood is a good day!
Cheers! 😁👍
Good stuff Codi, cheers mate. I reckon you'll like the little Muller, it cuts well and the ash handle is nice too. Haha yep the umbrella for the win! ⛱
Another great video Kurt! You definitely pushed all they had out of them. If you run out of future video ideas a 1 notch each comparison between a boys axe vs full size Tassie would be cool. Glad you're getting rain. We are dry here in the South Island and washing away in the North. Take care.
Cheers Brett, I'd planned to throw a tassie notch in there at the end but ran out of time, there will be a part 2 of this vid so I'll make sure to include it in that. Been meaning to ask how your going over there, hope you and yours are all OK mate
Nicely done Kurt. Always enjoy your camera work as much as your chopping. Appreciate seeing boys axes in Aussie real world use, be interested to see your comparison with a full tassie. Playing around with a few, handles, angles etc. I think I trust your judgement more than my own! Still seem to prefer my old Kelly and still grab it to go bush. Keep the vids coming mate, very enjoyable, as well as informative. Cheers PP
Gday mate, I appreciate that👍 Got another vid planned for these small axes and I'll throw some larger ones in for comparison, for sure. For the most part the lowest I'd go weight-wise usually is the 1.2kg range, and even then only for certain jobs. Im learning these little axes have their place though. Kelly! Good stuff, I've got a Dandy build on a pretty special handle in the works now, can't wait to get it out! Thanks again mate!👍
You are the best!!!
Thanks for watching mate! 👍👍🪓
One thing I quickly learned about chopping with a boys axe is you have to swing harder and more often to get the same results. I also notice more handle shock with the lighter heads.
That being said, they got the job done! That tree looked crazy hard! Nice work Kurt!
Chopping in the rain 😂😂 love the dedication l!
🤣turned out not a bad day! Thanks mate!👍👍
The hb seemed to take less time to create the notch maybe to do with profile ?
Wet days work though still looked fun - wet handles are a calluses nightmare - I got lots of bloodstains on my handles from wet days
Well done on keeping your kit dry - true pro 😊
Cheers for watching mate! Agreed, the relatively wedgy HB is a good allrounder I reckon, it's got some good runs on the board the last year or so. Yep gotta keep the calluses! Nothing worse than soft hands. Thanks again!👍
Great video Kurt as usual. Would be interesting to see a comparison with a boys axe side by side to a big axe to see the time difference in cuts and also how many hits it takes ect.
Gday mate, cheers! I'll get onto that next chance I get for sure!👍🪓
Lovely video and great chopping as always! That tallowwood looks interesting but that log is heavy work for those little axes.
Cheer Matt! Yeah a bit bigger than usual for these little blokes, took a while but they got er done! 👍
Some nice bush ambience in the rain Kurt.
Great example of accuracy, speed and fitness on this one.
The lighter 'Boys Axes', are handy for a bit of higher turnover, but the heavier axes just do the work. I am an old bastard and dont have any probs swinging 4.5 or so...
Though we are somewhat spoiled for tool choice. Otzi the Iceman or any like him would have killed for one of those lighter axes.
The second axe, I think the 'Montreal', looked the goods to me...
Those glances can be scary...
Once again, nice work Mate.🙂
Gday mate, thanks alot! Agreed, 4-5lbers have been my go-to for years as well. I've often wondered what the world would be like if those old timers were given a bunch of modern tools! Be a totally different place I reckon. Haha yeah that glance was a bit freaky. I'd considered it in the wet, but still a surprise! Cheers Peter 👍
Another sweet video man all 3 axes were mint but I really like the way the Brades chopped🤙🤙🤙them cuts were like a laser beam, do enjoy the versatility of a boys axe though something small going fast can do enough damage if need be 👍 Hahahahaha Duelling banjos is the best keep them coming bruz.
Gday mate! Cheers, that little brades does release well so let's you keep the speed up. Definitely a versatile little tool, I was asking a bit much here but they got it done! 🪕🤣
The first is cool
Gday mate, cheers!👍👍🪓
The bush is looking great mate! Precision cuts as always, nice. Is that natural forest or planted?
Thanks mate. It's a mix of both, there's some proper old growth, metre-plus seed trees through there, some second gen regrowth around the 40-70cm mark, and a heap of new growth from small saplings to 30cm. Very healthy working forest in my opinion, pretty much been my second home for about 15 years! Fairly large area too, and is worked and managed very well, with selective logging and controlled burns regularly, but still has untouched areas you could get lost in, and plenty of wildlife. I'll spend a few days walking across it south to north one of these days.Love this place!
@@kurts64 looks like a magic spot, great to have access to it for sure!
The difference is Kurt doing the chopping. My old builder farther in law had high redard for tallow wood for constriction and Marne use so it is sad to see it as fire wood.
I do not know the full story so can’t judge.
Gday mate, yep tallowood is some great timber. This tree was uprooted and left whole either by the loggers or some storms we had in our area about a month after logging finished. I thought for a while after finding it the best way to utilise it, but unfortunately after moving off the farm I no longer have access to a mill, so figured can at least get some demonstration value out of it using it for these tests. The pros and cons of chopping in a working forest these days: I'd actually organised a mill to utilise the spotted gum log from the Big Log video, and when I got back there to do it, the road graders had rolled the 8m long, 60 cm diameter log off the road and down the gully! 😤 Thanks again for watching mate, cheers! 👍👍🪓
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agree mate, on tough timber light axes aren't much good
Cheers Ben! The old "ideal for 12 inch pulpwood" thing I reckon would be based mostly on felling, where your not only cutting half-notches but using a step cut anyway. I definitely wouldn't wanna be bucking 12 inch trees into commercial cordwood all day with em
You definitely have to whip little axes. Too little and light for anything over 6”.
Yeah it felt like it took a bit to get into the "whip" groove as opposed to the "drive" with a larger axe. Agreed, 6 inches or so is the sweet spot for these fellas
First?
First! Cheers mate👍
Hats Off to you Sir.
You improvised, adapted and overcame !!!!👍👍
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So of the 3 which do you prefer ?
The notch from the Biber Muller Beaver Canada looks best to me. And it looked like it was proforming as well or better than the other 2.
Plus it's pretty Blue And I love the ringing ! I couldn't pick up all your comments on it while you were chopping . I'll have to watch it again. Which is Great
Cheers Glen! The Muller did seem to do really well and would excel at limbing too. HB is an allrounder, and this particular Brades, with a shorter edge, more curved bit and higher centreline would make it probably the better splitter of the three. Sorry the rain washed out the audio a bit!
@@kurts64 oh , nothin to be sorry for. I'm from a rain forest. I now live in a fairly dry area. Sometimes I miss the sound of rain.
Your um ba rella reminds me of an um ba rella I got for my wife in 02. I needed a bear watch when I was thinning trees along the Neka Bay Estuary on Chichagof Island. I would cut all the brush around a big stooled up spruce stump. (Many were 3 and 4 springboards up. ) Her and our 2 dogs would climb up the steps on a root flare. She would have my 458 and a big white and maroon umbarella . Her and the dogs and my rifle would sit under the umbrella and watch for brown bears that might head my way. I would be down thinning away with a 260 Stihl screaming in my hands. In the pouring rain 😆😆.
I'm hopefully going to get a few of those Biber Mullers by summertime.
1200, 1600 and 2 kg.
Maybe even a tommy
@@glenurquhart2300 your missus sounds like a champ! That's awesome. I reckon you'll do well with the Muller's, they're a good axe
Oi fella you go chopping ya leg off with that Muller I better not be getting an email from your solicitor 🪓🚑🦿🙃
Hahahaha nah she'll be right mate!🤣🤣👍🪓