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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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  • Cold Steel Trench Hawk, OD Green

    Cold Steel Knives

    Cold Steel Trench Hawk, OD Green

    $52.99

    Cold Steel Trench Hawk  The Trench Hawk combines a sharp cutting edge with a wedge-style spike to provide tactical versatility for modern warriors. Drop forged from 1055 carbon steel and...

  • Cold Steel Trench Hawk, FDE

    Cold Steel Knives

    Cold Steel Trench Hawk, FDE

    $52.99

    Cold Steel Trench Hawk  The Trench Hawk combines a sharp cutting edge with a wedge-style spike to provide tactical versatility for modern warriors. Drop forged from 1055 carbon steel and...

  • Hults Bruk Agdor 15" Hatchet

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Agdor 15" Hatchet

    $129.00

    This all-purpose hatchet makes light work of camp chores from clearing camp and making kindling, to chopping small trees, making hot dog spears, or driving tent stakes. A 1.25-pound Yankee pattern...

  • Spyderco H02 Genzow Hatchethawk

    Spyderco

    Spyderco H02 Genzow Hatchethawk

    $268.80

    Designed by German outdoor enthusiast and historian Martin Genzow, the Genzow HatchetHawk is a versatile, high-performance utility tomahawk that integrates the best features of the traditional...

  • Condor Throwing Axe with Canvas Sheath

    Condor Tool & Knife

    Condor Throwing Axe with Canvas Sheath

    $67.98

    12.75" overall. 3.63" cutting edge. 7" black powder coated 1075HC steel axe head. Tan cord wrapped handle. Tan canvas sheath.

  • Hults Bruk Kalix Felling Axe - 28"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Kalix Felling Axe - 28"

    $104.00

    This item has an axe head weight of 2.25 lbs and a handle length of 28 inches. The head is the product of blasted and clear-lacquered ironwork and the curved shaft is made of US-sourced hickory. That...

  • Hults Bruk Kisa Felling Axe - 26"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Kisa Felling Axe - 26"

    $184.00

    The Hults Bruk Kisa Felling Axe is a medium axe for chopping down trees. When you see a tree threatening your home, or maybe it's dying and it just has to be taken care of, bring in the Kisa...

  • Hults Bruk Tarnaby Replacement Handle

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Tarnaby Replacement Handle

    $34.00

    15" Curved American Hickory handle. Works great for your Tarnaby Axe, or can be adapted to work with your Barn Find Vintage Head. Ideal for your Boys Axe or that hatchet that needs a little more...

  • Cold Steel Hudson Bay Tomahawk

    Cold Steel Knives

    Cold Steel Hudson Bay Tomahawk

    $34.95

    22" overall. 6" black finish 1055HC steel axe head with 3.63" cutting edge. American Hickory handle. Axe head weighs one pound.  Country of Origin:Taiwan

  • Kershaw 1075 Deschutes Hatchet

    Kershaw Knives

    Kershaw 1075 Deschutes Hatchet

    $59.95

    Mankind been using the ax to shape, split, and cut wood for millennia. The Kershaw Dechutes camp ax is an update on that trusty tool. With its angular handle lines and cutouts in the ax head and...

  • Hults Bruk Grinding Stone 180/600 Grit

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Grinding Stone 180/600 Grit

    $44.00

    With our grinding stone you can easily and securely grind your axe wherever you are. The grinding stone is of good size and designed to give a steady grip, protecting fingers and hands from cutting...

  • Hults Bruk Almike Handle

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Almike Handle

    $39.00

    The Hults Bruk Almike Replacement Handle has been intended to be the ideal way to to enhance your blade. An efficient knife accessory will make a great improvement. And due to the Hults Bruk Almike...

  • Hults Bruk Salen Hatchet - 20"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Salen Hatchet - 20"

    $109.00

    This item has an axe head weight of 1.75 Lbs and a handle length of 20 inches. The head is the product of blasted and clear-lacquered ironwork and the curved shaft is made of US-sourced hickory. The...

  • Hults Bruk Aneby Handle

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Aneby Handle

    $39.00

    The Hults Bruk Aneby Replacement Handle has been intended to be the ideal way to to enhance your blade. An efficient knife accessory will make a great improvement. And due to the Hults Bruk Aneby...

  • Hults Bruk Torneo Felling Axe

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Torneo Felling Axe

    $99.00

    This item has an axe head weight of 1.75 Lbs and a handle length of 26 inches. The head is the product of blasted and clear-lacquered ironwork and the curved shaft is made of US-sourced hickory. That...

  • Hults Bruk Jonaker Hatchet - 9.4"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Jonaker Hatchet - 9.4"

    $189.00

    The Jonaker The Hults Bruk Jonaker is our most compact hatchet. It is intended for tasks such as making kindling, doing light clearing and for any number of backcountry jobs. It is ideal for...

  • Hults Bruk Aneby Hatchet - 20"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Aneby Hatchet - 20"

    $199.00

    The Hults Bruk Aneby is a stout medium sized axe. A great axe for camping or hunting designed to offer considerable power and leverage in a compact size. Ideally suited for light forest work,...

  • Hults Bruk Almike Hatchet - 16"

    Hults Bruk

    Hults Bruk Almike Hatchet - 16"

    $199.00

    The Hults Bruk Almike is a small all-purpose hatchet. A perfect sized hatchet for camping, cutting small firewood, and fine carving. The Almike is a life long all-purpose tool for the garden, camp or...

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