The last good woods falling axe that was ever made, IMO, was the Stroheaxe from Sweden. I still have a 4.5 pounder for keepsake. Sent Burnam my old 5 pounder a year or so back. The steel in those axe heads have a ring that when pounding wedges you can hear it a mile away. they quit making...
You hardly ever see any fat people in those old logging pics.
I knew a few old timers who hand chopped in the day. They told me when the first chain saws came on the scene most fallers stuck with the cross cut and axe because the early saws were just too heavy to manage on the steep ground...
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