My father's axe

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I don't really have significant difficulty getting the axe out of the top of the chopping block :). That was hyperbole to emphasize how fast I can accelerate the head of said axe :D.
 
Crap, I'm on the wrong phone, I don't have pics of the Axes I was just recently gifted. A Gransforce Bruk (or however you spell the Swedish Bork Bork axe company) and a Condor out of El Salvador. Both are quite nice axes. I'll get some photos up soon, as I'd like everyone's opinion on just what kind of axe my Condor is.
 
Gränsfors
GrAnSfOrS with am oomloutt, which I undoubtedly spelled wrong. On purpose. And because I can't be bothered to look it up.

Stig, I want you to know, that in all seriousness, you are one of the highlights of my day! I love you, thank you for being the you that I have met here on this forum. Now go stretch your back, you tree planting machine!
 
A 'felling axe' brings to mind working with a crosscut saw. Dunno what you'd call a modern wedge banger.

Anyone know how long it took to fell a redwood with an axe and crosscut? Get the gunning cut in with the saw, and you're on the axe team. Chop! a little chip flies out. Chop! there goes another chip... "Kill me now..." :^D
 
I have not. Do redwoods cut pretty easily? Even if it's a gravy tree to cut, the size is pretty intimidating. That's a lot of big chips to get a face in.
 
Being a very soft wood I'm sure they chop pretty easy...other than the shear size of them. You'll also notice on most of the redwood crosscut saws they used had half as many teeth and double the number of rakers to facilitate clearing the "noodles" out of the saw kerf.
 
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Maybe as John postulates, a felling axe is for chopping out the face, and a falling axe is for driving wedges and chopping away thick bark.

It always has been fuzzy how the two words get used, to me. Are we felling this tree, or falling it? Some people just mix and match as the spirit moves them, ime. That's sorta where I am on the usage. So the axe thing makes perfect sense, in that there is no sense to it :D.
 
I have felled trees with axes. Just for fun or for a stunt. But when falling timber I never carried an axe that was sharp enough to chop a tree down.

Sharp only enough to chip off bark for setting wedges, and freeing a stuck saw once in while.

Toting a razor sharp axe in the woods is a liability for the modern timber faller.

My friend Larry Galliani once told me, "Jer, if you're chopping wood you're not making any money."
 
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