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Axes, Hatchets & Machetes

Axes, Hatchets, and Machetes

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Why Own an Axe and Hatchet?

Wood Processing

Axes are essential tools for chopping, splitting, and processing firewood. Whether you need wood for heating, cooking, or camping, an axe can make the job significantly easier and more efficient.

Camping & Outdoor Activities

When you're camping, an axe can help with tasks like clearing a campsite, building a shelter, and crafting tools or equipment from wood. It's indispensable for survival and bushcraft skills.

Emergency Preparedness

In emergency situations, such as natural disasters or power outages, having an axe can be invaluable for cutting through debris, opening blocked paths, and even self-rescue.

Gardening & Landscaping

Axes are helpful for clearing brush, cutting down small trees, and maintaining your garden or property. They are ideal for tasks like chopping roots and removing unwanted vegetation.

Different Types of Axes

Axes come in various types, each designed for specific tasks. Understanding the differences between these types of axes is essential to ensure that you use the right tool for the job. Here's an explanation of some common types of axes and their respective purposes:

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Felling Axe

  • Purpose: Felling axes are designed for cutting down trees. They have a long, slender handle and a relatively thin, sharp blade for efficient cutting.
  • Characteristics: Felling axes often have a pronounced wedge shape to facilitate splitting the wood when the tree falls. They are also used for limbing, and removing branches from felled trees.

Splitting Axe

  • Purpose: Splitting axes are primarily used for splitting logs into firewood. They have a heavy, blunt, and wide wedge-shaped head that helps to split wood fibers effectively.
  • Characteristics: Splitting axes typically have a thicker and blunter blade compared to felling axes, making them unsuitable for felling trees but excellent for breaking wood into smaller pieces.

Hatchet

  • Purpose: Hatchets are smaller, one-handed axes used for a variety of tasks, such as chopping, clearing brush, and light wood processing.
  • Characteristics: Hatchets are compact and portable, making them suitable for camping, backpacking, and other outdoor activities. They are versatile and can serve as a multi-purpose tool.

Camping Axe

  • Purpose: Camping axes are designed for outdoor enthusiasts and campers. They are often a hybrid between a hatchet and a small felling axe, making them suitable for a range of campsite tasks.
  • Characteristics: Camping axes have a moderate size, lightweight design, and a balance between chopping power and portability, making them ideal for processing firewood, shelter-building, and more.

Broad Axe

  • Purpose: Broad axes are used for shaping and hewing large, flat surfaces in woodworking, such as squaring logs, shaping beams, or crafting timber structures.
  • Characteristics: Broad axes have a wide, flat blade that allows for precise control when shaping wood. One side of the blade is flat, while the other is beveled, and they are used alternately to create a smooth, flat surface.

Pickaxe (Pulaski Axe)

  • Purpose: Pickaxes are primarily used in construction and landscaping to break up hard ground, rocks, and roots. Pulaski axes are a combination tool, with an axe blade on one side and a pick on the other.
  • Characteristics: Pickaxes have a pointed end for piercing the ground or rock, while the axe side is used for cutting roots or digging trenches.

Tomahawk

  • Purpose: Tomahawks are small, light axes with a long history in Native American culture. They are used for throwing, utility, and as a weapon in some cases.
  • Characteristics: Tomahawks have a flat, narrow head, making them well-suited for throwing and cutting tasks. They are often used in recreational activities like tomahawk throwing.
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  • Hults Bruk Agdor Leather Axe Head Sheath, Large

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Agdor Leather Axe Head Sheath, Large

    $20.00

    The sheath is made of premium leather and will accomodate up to 4.25" Axe Heads. Leather color and grain will vary. Does not include axe, this listing is for the leather sheath only. 

  • Hults Bruk Agdor Leather Axe Head Sheath, Small

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Agdor Leather Axe Head Sheath, Small

    $20.00

    The sheath is made of premium leather and will accomodate up to 3.25" Axe Heads. Leather color and grain will vary. Does not include axe, this listing is for the leather sheath only. 

  • Toor Heavy Metal Series Tomahawk

    Toor Knives

    Toor Heavy Metal Series Tomahawk

    $395.00

    From the pits of hell rises the most face-melting blades your ignoble eyes have ever seen, known to ye mortals as The Heavy Metal Collection! The Toor machine keeps turning with a brand new, limited...

  • Bawidamann x RMJ Ragnarok 12", Monsoon Gray / Black Ragnarok G10

    Bawidamann

    Bawidamann x RMJ Ragnarok 12", Monsoon Gray / Black Ragnarok G10

    $550.00

    At Bawidamann Blades, they are, and always will be RMJ TACTICAL Tomahawk Diehards. Doing a collaboration with RMJ is a BIG DEAL. Over the years they have gone from fan boys to peers to friends. "RMJ...

  • Bawidamann x RMJ Ragnarok 14", Fenrir / Black Ragnarok G10

    Bawidamann

    Bawidamann x RMJ Ragnarok 14", Fenrir / Black Ragnarok G10

    $550.00

    At Bawidamann Blades, they are, and always will be RMJ TACTICAL Tomahawk Diehards. Doing a collaboration with RMJ is a BIG DEAL. Over the years they have gone from fan boys to peers to friends. "RMJ...

  • Hults Bruk Agdor 28 Montreal Felling Axe

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Agdor 28 Montreal Felling Axe

    $169.00

    Useful for more than cutting down trees, the 2.5-pound Montreal pattern axe head features wide cheeks for splitting with a long blade that chops deep cuts, paired with a curved 28-inch American...

  • Hults Bruk Agdor 26 Yankee Felling Axe

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Agdor 26 Yankee Felling Axe

    $139.00

    This compact felling axe is one of the most versatile axes in the HB product range. The Agdor 26 walks the line between axe and hatchet — small enough for making kindling yet capable of tree cutting...

  • Toor Tomahawk - Covert, Green G10 / Black D2

    Toor Knives

    Toor Tomahawk - Covert, Green G10 / Black D2

    $395.00

    Designed as the ultimate belt-mounted breaching tool, the full-size Toor Knives Tomahawk carries most of its weight in the head, which increases impact force, when swung. The blade end of the...

  • Spyderco Warrior Hawk, Black G10 / Black TiCN D2 - H03

    Spyderco

    Spyderco Warrior Hawk, Black G10 / Black TiCN D2 - H03

    $412.50

    Spyderco Warrior Hawk This tactical tomahawk combines practical utility with serious defensive capability in one expertly crafted package. Machined from a single billet of D2 tool steel with a...

  • Toor Knives F13 Tommy, Covert Green

    Toor Knives

    Toor Knives F13 Tommy, Covert Green

    Was: $350.00
    Now: $265.99

    The latest edition to our growing axe family is the F13 Tommy, which is named after the "Filthy Thirteen" of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. The F13 Tommy resembles...

  • Toor Knives F13 Tommy, Carbon

    Toor Knives

    Toor Knives F13 Tommy, Carbon

    Was: $350.00
    Now: $265.99

    The latest edition to our growing axe family is the F13 Tommy, which is named after the "Filthy Thirteen" of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. The F13 Tommy resembles...

  • Council Tool Natural Leather Mask, Hatchet - AM-SHEATH22

    Council Tool

    Council Tool Natural Leather Mask, Hatchet - AM-SHEATH22

    $17.18

    AM-SHEATH22  Natural leather mask, riveted with strap.  This natural leather is an economic alternative to pricey sheaths.  Covers the bit and the strap makes for a secure fit.  Fits the SU125HB14C, 

  • On Sale!
    Toor Tomahawk - Carbon, Black G10 / Black D2

    Toor Knives

    Toor Tomahawk - Carbon, Black G10 / Black D2

    Was: $395.00
    Now: $300.19

    Designed as the ultimate belt-mounted breaching tool, the full-size Toor Knives Tomahawk carries most of its weight in the head, which increases impact force, when swung. The blade end of the...

  • Toor Tomahawk, Muted Sage / Black D2

    Toor Knives

    Toor Tomahawk, Muted Sage / Black D2

    $395.00

    Designed as the ultimate belt-mounted breaching tool, the full-size Toor Knives Tomahawk carries most of its weight in the head, which increases impact force, when swung. The blade end of the...

  • Toor Tomahawk, Shadow Black G10 / Black D2

    Toor Knives

    Toor Tomahawk, Shadow Black G10 / Black D2

    $395.00

    Designed as the ultimate belt-mounted breaching tool, the full-size Toor Knives Tomahawk carries most of its weight in the head, which increases impact force, when swung. The blade end of the...

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