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I wouldn't know anything about anything but hardwood trees because that's all we have .I doubt seriously if I've in my lifetime ever tripped as much as a dozen pines .Lawdy that resin/pitch gets all over everything .

Well I could hit a baseball a mile but damned if I can hit a wedge with an axe .

With an 8 pound BFH you won't bounce off a plastic wedge you break the damned thing.At least I do which is why the dead blow . I can't hit nothing with a curved handled axe unless I choke up on it then what ,right in the bread basket or heaven forbid a tad lower .Ooofta !

A dead blow won't rattle your cage as much as a sledge .It won't bounce off of something and hit you in the shinbone either .That will make you dance about as bad as a shot to the family jewels .

A dead blow is especially handy for beating on stuff you don't want to screw up with a steel hammer .Like an axle shaft for instance .It makes a good hammer for forming sheet metal too as well as a wedge driver if you don't live on the left coast with all those axes .

Maybe after you've rolled around on the ground for ten minutes .

Now let me tell the handle of an 8 pound BFH will drive you to your knees too .

Since this thread got revisted I am going to get the axe out,the double bit cruiser .It's time to wack off the poison ivy before my grand chldren get into it .That old thing is about sharp enough to shave with .My dear departed dad could really put an edge on an axe .

Well I never had that problem when I pounded steel wedges with an 8 pound sledge .I did have a couple bang me in the knee though .Felt so good after the swelling went down .Sunny beech that's like getting kicked by a mule .

You guys on the far coast have a much better affinity for an axe than we do in the heart land .Oh I pack one with me to the woods but I seldom use it .Chopping off poison ivy maybe . Thumping wedge with an axe and Al Smith doesn't go together in the same sentence .It seems about every time I...

An 8 pound sledge would be a BFH but a 12 pounder tops that .While I do have the later it very seldom gets used for obvious reasons. Number one is it's too much of a BFH .Kind of a 3 hit wonder .After three hits you wonder why you got the thing out .You have to rest for 10 minutes before you...

It's the right tool for a west coast faller .We don't have those long handled hatchets around here .We have a big hammer .:D

That thing looks like a long handle hatchet .I don't know it seems like the tall timber crowd have a propensity to pound on things with an axe for some reason .I grew up not pounding on anything with the head of an axe .The old man would have given me a talkin to over that for sure .

An axe is made to be swung cutting head first .With a curved handle conventional splitting axe it's just bass ackwards to swing it heel first .I don't know how you can hit anything with it that way .Well at least I can't hit anything that way,give me a BFH.

Very true. My aim isn't worth a hoot with an axe .At least the butt end ,splitting I do okay .

The plastic wedges a 5 pound dead blow works best for me .Damned axe tears them up. The steel splitters it's an 8 pound sledge .