Great video, hit a sensitive spot. Years of being hit with technological junk via the machine that is consumerism has made me appreciate something so simple as a video about axes, featuring axeman himself.
Very informative thanks .I never realized there was so much to know about axes .You dont realise how little you know until someone who does know shows you.
Raised in NW Montana and learned to split wood at a very young age and my favorite axe for that chore and everything else was a cruiser. I could reduce 3 foot buckskin Tamarac rounds to kindling in no time at all by the time I was 10 yo. Chore is a poor choice of words for I loved every minute of it.
fantastic documentary. Thank you so much! Loved seeing so many historical types all together as well as some explanation of design associated with each type
It was all over just as I began - that is how interesting this was, i.e., captivating with no awareness of time passing. Thanks for posting! VERY interesting.
Thank you. A video worth it's weight in axes. I love and do a great deal of trail work with BCH of Pisgah in NC. To say your video was informative would be an understatement. Again, thank you and know YOU are appreciated.
I have watched about 100 hours of axe videos, your taught me more about axes then all the others. I have been looking for an axe. Looking at the Council Tools Hudson Bay Axe.
An old friend Mr. Lee D. from Michigan had one of the first farms in the state. He once showed me an old axe that he said brought by his family over on the Mayflower. To substantiate his claim, he further stated the axe had three new heads and seven new handles, but was otherwise the real thing!
Martin Camp I have the original first axe ever made! Of course it is made from stone for the head and the handle from the tusk of a wooly mammoth. It’s been upgraded very much the same way as that gentleman’s Mayflower axe but very much original components.
I don't know which is worse, not having a dad at least you can imagine how great your dad would be if you had one or having one that nulls into being no better or worse than not having one. This guy looks like the one in a hundred that would be a great dad so don't feel bad there's way more unfit dads and downright bad ones that come short on all their basic duties. The ones that are there but ignore and don't value their son are as bad as the absent ones who at least may have valid excuses. Still i guess it's better to be able to put a face on a negative dad than nothing at all but i am not sure of that.
I was taught when using an adze to lay your forearm on your thigh as it gives you more control. The nail slot in your hunters tommy is not for nails but to lift trap pins if frozen into the earth.
This knowledgeable gentleman is responsible for Kelly True Temper Perfect Jersey-pattern axes fetching a premium on UA-cam for quite a while. They seem to be more reasonably priced now, but those are excellent axes to pick up if you can. The balance is so nice. I've got two.
I must be an old timer)))) I was taught as a kid to "flip" the axe on impact when splitting. But, my family "cut their teeth" using axes, on hardwoods like oak n hickory, for hundreds of years . Your finally the first person I saw that even had heard of "twisting??))))"the axe.
I found a Shapleigh DE flooring hatchet, for a lefthand swing. It has some butchers Mark's and a crack along the eye. I've seen pictures of it, but it's the only physical item that I can find on the internet. Probably many laying around in forlorn wooden boxes, in some sheds or barns.
11:14 to 11:28 I preach that in punching, I always tell people hit correctly, hit accurately and then the speed and power will come, don't try to throw a wild punch all fat and hard you will hurt your hand and or wrist or miss but if you get good at hitting right, then on target you will then be able to do the same faster and harder over time, hearing this guy apply a similar logic to the axe excited me, I can feel him between 11:14 and 11:28
I found an old collins laying in a pasture behind the first house l bought. About a 5 lb. Head with a thick bit l put a new handle on it and use it for splitting which is what l believe it was made for.
I resintly got a very old smaller axe head /hatchet the only marks I can find are j r b a |/| it's got a octagonal hammer face . Very cool the handle is very rough/ unusable... and short but has obviously broken and split... I want to use it but don't want to mess up a artifact...
the hatchet with the poll and claws is a warehouse mans hatchet , drives nails , pulls nails and cuts boards and banding and all the ther uses in handling freight in the warehouse ,
I just found out why they called it a pole axe after 50 years ffs lol..can you do the same sort of video on tomahawks?if that's possible..thanks for the info
Didn’t mention the main feature of a true double bit ax. One blade for cutting, one for splitting. Different shape on each side. Surprised you didn’t know.
With the adze you should rest your off arm against your knee. In the case of the vidieo your right arm is off arm and should rest on your right thigh just above the knee.
yeah, but it's very hard and tough stone, and not found everywhere in the quality that makes a superior stone tool. So, I think it's fair to differentiate flint from just any old rock.
Moose Yeah I noticed that too but a brand name is not what is important to this guy. Quality and practicality is what matters and The GB just happened to find its way into his collection because it has both of those attributes.
Yes he did : purchase; plural noun: purchases 1. the action of buying something. "the large number of videos currently available for purchase" a thing that has been bought. "she stowed her purchases in the car" LAW the acquisition of property by one's personal action rather than by inheritance. synonyms: acquisition, investment, buy, order, deal, bargain, property, asset, possession, holding; More antonyms: sale ARCHAIC the annual rent or return from land. "a lease valued at seven year's purchase" 2. firm contact or grip. "the horse's hooves fought for purchase on the slippery pavement" synonyms: grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, fingerhold, anchorage, support, grasp; More a pulley or similar device for moving heavy objects. Origin
Adze are old There are stone ones used in New Guinea. That was a very unsafe way to use and adze. You brace one arm on your thigh so it cannot cut you.
Ya Herr Weisgerber! Ze Germans ov Pennsylvania haf contributed ze gr-r-r-eatest ov ze br-r-r-oadaxes- Ya! Und zees ees because ze vood een ze for-r-ests zer are ze veddy HARDEST ov ze hardvoods!
You keep forgetting that the design of the axes are NOT American at all .. but European. The difference in styles comes from the different countries where immigrants to the USA comes from. BUT .. a big plus for you recognizing the best axe last in your presentation, the Gransfors Bruks axe [Graensforce Bruuks] no O-sound in the last part but U as in brunch .. but long.
He literally just said a competition axe would not be good in wood.... Lol what? Those axes are great in wood.. what is he talking about... Also Granfors Brunks lol
00:50 This myth of the poll only on american axes gets on my nerves. Look here and see of battle axes of the times, even from the bronze axe with a balance weight shaped as a hammer! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Battle_axes?uselang=en If europeans knew since the Bronze age of the use of the poll and its balance in battle axes, hammers, or axes (all used since the stoneage! The hole in the stone was in the middle, so it had a nice balance) why do americans say then that it was only invented by a smith in america in 1750? Look at history books, the world existed before the rediscovery of america!
Great video, hit a sensitive spot. Years of being hit with technological junk via the machine that is consumerism has made me appreciate something so simple as a video about axes, featuring axeman himself.
Very informative thanks .I never realized there was so much to know about axes .You dont realise how little you know until someone who does know shows you.
Raised in NW Montana and learned to split wood at a very young age and my favorite axe for that chore and everything else was a cruiser. I could reduce 3 foot buckskin Tamarac rounds to kindling in no time at all by the time I was 10 yo. Chore is a poor choice of words for I loved every minute of it.
fantastic documentary. Thank you so much! Loved seeing so many historical types all together as well as some explanation of design associated with each type
on VHS this would suck but UA-cam breaths new life into old videos
It was all over just as I began - that is how interesting this was, i.e., captivating with no awareness of time passing. Thanks for posting! VERY interesting.
So grateful I found this video again
Great info both old and new thanks a bunch for being there .Happy Trails
Very informative, I thought it was funny he didn't know the gransfors bruk, great video
I grew up with axes, never knew how to say it either. The first time I heard it pronounced the right way was UA-cam. I still say it wrong though!
this is what TV should have been when it was invented.
Thank you. A video worth it's weight in axes. I love and do a great deal of trail work with BCH of Pisgah in NC. To say your video was informative would be an understatement. Again, thank you and know YOU are appreciated.
Thank you for the very informative video on a subject I knew very little about, again thanks and keep on chopping them trees.
Incredible axe review. Very interesting indeed. Great vid
I have watched about 100 hours of axe videos, your taught me more about axes then all the others. I have been looking for an axe. Looking at the Council Tools Hudson Bay Axe.
An old friend Mr. Lee D. from Michigan had one of the first farms in the state. He once showed me an old axe that he said brought by his family over on the Mayflower. To substantiate his claim, he further stated the axe had three new heads and seven new handles, but was otherwise the real thing!
Martin Camp I have the original first axe ever made! Of course it is made from stone for the head and the handle from the tusk of a wooly mammoth.
It’s been upgraded very much the same way as that gentleman’s Mayflower axe but very much original components.
I love these sorts of axe stories!
The things I watch at 2:00am when I should be sleeping....
+Northern Beattie Me and you man. Me and you. XD
Krass Gut a threesome kinky
Diddo
Jawohl
Hahah it's Friday! 3:30 am 😃
Very interesting. Thanks for posting video.
Thank you very much for posting this video, learned a lot.
I wish I had a dad.
me too :c
I don't know which is worse, not having a dad at least you can imagine how great your dad would be if you had one or having one that nulls into being no better or worse than not having one. This guy looks like the one in a hundred that would be a great dad so don't feel bad there's way more unfit dads and downright bad ones that come short on all their basic duties. The ones that are there but ignore and don't value their son are as bad as the absent ones who at least may have valid excuses.
Still i guess it's better to be able to put a face on a negative dad than nothing at all but i am not sure of that.
I'll be your dad. We could be pen pals!! Just don't ask me where I've been all these years!
😂
Excellent, good to see. Thanks
Very informative video. Real good! Thanks!
I was taught when using an adze to lay your forearm on your thigh as it gives you more control.
The nail slot in your hunters tommy is not for nails but to lift trap pins if frozen into the earth.
I came here to find these two comments
Priceless wisdom.
This knowledgeable gentleman is responsible for Kelly True Temper Perfect Jersey-pattern axes fetching a premium on UA-cam for quite a while.
They seem to be more reasonably priced now, but those are excellent axes to pick up if you can. The balance is so nice. I've got two.
Nice Video.
I have a Granfors Bruk axe same as you showed in this wideo. I love it a very nice axe.
Thank you , well done .
Great video. What is the advantage to using an adzes over a hand jointer plane?
Great video Sir. Do you know anything about the - DEMON - Kelly Works double bit axe? Any information you can share would be great.
That old guy is like the fracking PhD of axes. He knows his stuff. Wao!
He is not old. You must be very young.
Wrong! He doesn't know Tuatahi axes are made in New Zealand NOT Australia.
@@steersman-zv2ng: At least he knew that the "Australian Pattern" is just a ripoff of the Yankee "Connecticut Pattern"!!!
I must be an old timer))))
I was taught as a kid to "flip" the axe on impact when splitting. But, my family "cut their teeth" using axes, on hardwoods like oak n hickory, for hundreds of years .
Your finally the first person I saw that even had heard of "twisting??))))"the axe.
Thank You ,most interesting
Nice show pretty axes Jason Herrera
Very cool video love seeing all the different axes and his enthusiasm for them
I found a Shapleigh DE flooring hatchet, for a lefthand swing. It has some butchers Mark's and a crack along the eye. I've seen pictures of it, but it's the only physical item that I can find on the internet. Probably many laying around in forlorn wooden boxes, in some sheds or barns.
The Tuatahi axe is made in New Zealand
11:14 to 11:28 I preach that in punching, I always tell people hit correctly, hit accurately and then the speed and power will come, don't try to throw a wild punch all fat and hard you will hurt your hand and or wrist or miss but if you get good at hitting right, then on target you will then be able to do the same faster and harder over time, hearing this guy apply a similar logic to the axe excited me, I can feel him between 11:14 and 11:28
I have a rare miniature Vaughn hatchet. Still use it to split kindling!
👍🇺🇸very informative and enjoyable video,nice presentation
Good info
AMAZING!!!!!
The 1st shingling was not the one he used at the end, I would be interested more on the first. Any info??
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Z jakiej stali siekiera da rady przeciąć drut zbrojony 8 mm i nie uszkodzi się?
I found an old collins laying in a pasture behind the first house l bought. About a 5 lb. Head with a thick bit l put a new handle on it and use it for splitting which is what l believe it was made for.
I believe this feller was the tool expert on the Frontier House series out of Virginia City Mt
One day i found a set of way old wood working tools set out to garbage ....
The sickest balanced throwing axe was part of it ... like a tomohawk.
I have heard people call the Canadian broad axe a "whale tail" or "tunaxe" Is that just because the looks of the blade?
I resintly got a very old smaller axe head /hatchet the only marks I can find are j r b a |/| it's got a octagonal hammer face . Very cool the handle is very rough/ unusable... and short but has obviously broken and split... I want to use it but don't want to mess up a artifact...
What is the song called at he end
American ax factory, what kind of wood is the handle made from? I support the channel. I come from far away Vietnam
hickory or ash
the hatchet with the poll and claws is a warehouse mans hatchet , drives nails , pulls nails and cuts boards and banding and all the ther uses in handling freight in the warehouse ,
How can I get a copy of the Axe Manual.
How contour get a copy of the book?
the splitting scene on the first swing is like in a mob movie there all calm and in a sentence and wham
I just found out why they called it a pole axe after 50 years ffs lol..can you do the same sort of video on tomahawks?if that's possible..thanks for the info
Didn’t mention the main feature of a true double bit ax. One blade for cutting, one for splitting. Different shape on each side.
Surprised you didn’t know.
I thought a speed wobble came from doing to much speed lmao.
That claw on the half axe was for removing nails.
hard yakka snowandneeley
27m09s I thought those were for pulling stakes out of the ground.
They are. Most men use them for traps or tents. Don't think I ever pulled an actual nail with one!
The Tuatahi axe isn't good for wood?
It isnt good for wood splitting
With the adze you should rest your off arm against your knee. In the case of the vidieo your right arm is off arm and should rest on your right thigh just above the knee.
Broad axe or square axe.
شي جميل
I bought 87 axes and wooden doll and a guitar. I'm leaving the world to live in the jungle to chop trees.
you criminal should be stopped. Trees are not to be cut without strong planning and replanting of new trees.
Leather boots ill take my steel toes thanks.
Tuatahi is a new zealand axe
Axes can be so much more safe with longer handles.
flint is stone
yeah, but it's very hard and tough stone, and not found everywhere in the quality that makes a superior stone tool. So, I think it's fair to differentiate flint from just any old rock.
Tuatahi is a Maori name and is New Zealand made, not Australian
lmao "gransfors brunks"
What about it?
Moose Yeah I noticed that too but a brand name is not what is important to this guy. Quality and practicality is what matters and The GB just happened to find its way into his collection because it has both of those attributes.
Well I'm starting to dress like this guy from now on.
You took oldaxemans video and re-uploaded it, and to boot you call it the ultimate guide to American axes yet the URL is a Swedish Husqvarna.
I wonder what that guy thinks of Estwing Axes
Axes are a necessity in the bush. But I prefer to do most cutting with a CHAINSAW !
A woman's best area isn't the north area, if you know what im saying.
It'll do in a pinch...
If you wanna call the Tuatahi made in New Zealand axe Australian then i'll call you a Canadian !
Well, montana is canada without liberals so...
Its actually Flint and then stone axe i quess
Did he just call grip “purchase”
Yes he did : purchase; plural noun: purchases
1.
the action of buying something.
"the large number of videos currently available for purchase"
a thing that has been bought.
"she stowed her purchases in the car"
LAW
the acquisition of property by one's personal action rather than by inheritance.
synonyms: acquisition, investment, buy, order, deal, bargain, property, asset, possession, holding; More
antonyms: sale
ARCHAIC
the annual rent or return from land.
"a lease valued at seven year's purchase"
2.
firm contact or grip.
"the horse's hooves fought for purchase on the slippery pavement"
synonyms: grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, fingerhold, anchorage, support, grasp; More
a pulley or similar device for moving heavy objects.
Origin
Adze are old There are stone ones used in New Guinea. That was a very unsafe way to use and adze. You brace one arm on your thigh so it cannot cut you.
CrazyRussianHacker hacked log splitting technique from this video, got 1m views
Ya Herr Weisgerber! Ze Germans ov Pennsylvania haf contributed ze gr-r-r-eatest ov ze br-r-r-oadaxes- Ya! Und zees ees because ze vood een ze for-r-ests zer are ze veddy HARDEST ov ze hardvoods!
ua-cam.com/video/fJ70PPwxG5I/v-deo.htmlsi=6QuT3WrkxXn7Qw4f
Greetings from Germany
You keep forgetting that the design of the axes are NOT American at all .. but European. The difference in styles comes from the different countries where immigrants to the USA comes from.
BUT .. a big plus for you recognizing the best axe last in your presentation, the Gransfors Bruks axe [Graensforce Bruuks] no O-sound in the last part but U as in brunch .. but long.
Also that guys bucking technique is pretty bad and super deficient.
He literally just said a competition axe would not be good in wood.... Lol what? Those axes are great in wood.. what is he talking about... Also Granfors Brunks lol
00:50 This myth of the poll only on american axes gets on my nerves.
Look here and see of battle axes of the times, even from the bronze axe with a balance weight shaped as a hammer!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Battle_axes?uselang=en
If europeans knew since the Bronze age of the use of the poll and its balance in battle axes, hammers, or axes (all used since the stoneage! The hole in the stone was in the middle, so it had a nice balance) why do americans say then that it was only invented by a smith in america in 1750?
Look at history books, the world existed before the rediscovery of america!
Calm down loser.