Axes and associated items

[Squareground3691]

@Squareground3691 : What's the double-bit on the right?

Pop's was a straight-handle version similar to that and I'd really like to own one for choppin'.

That’s a Kelly’s True Temper Axe and Tool Co.

 

[davidwyby]

???

 

[chiselbit]

Obviously a holy hammer

 

[Kerfed]

Manly Gravel-Maker

 

[Woodslasher]

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Lineman's hammer, the hole is for screwing in the "pegs" that you'll see on phone/power poles.

 

[Ketchup]

Lineman's hammer, the hole is for screwing in the "pegs" that you'll see on phone/power poles.

Also handy for pulling concrete form stakes. Or just anything where a cheater bar is wanted.

 

[Wilhelm]

 

[davidwyby]

A guy in the mountains keeps breaking the head off this monster maul. We welded it again and my son and I tested it in some one summer dried Euc. I think it took 10 swings of the maul and then went to the sledge for 20 more. Another piece I managed to split off with 10 swings of the maul.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

A guy in the mountains keeps breaking the head off this monster maul. We welded it again and my son and I tested it in some one summer dried Euc. I think it took 10 swings of the maul and then went to the sledge for 20 more. Another piece I managed to split off with 10 swings of the maul.

I have 5 steel wedges, 10" long x 3" wide, 2-1/2" thick, sharpened, and smack them with around a 6# mallet. So far they've disassembled even the tough stuff. @julie wolf might have pictures...

 

[davidwyby]

Usually, anything that tough gets the saw or the press splitter.

 

[Wilhelm]

A guy in the mountains keeps breaking the head off this monster maul. We welded it again and my son and I tested it in some one summer dried Euc. I think it took 10 swings of the maul and then went to the sledge for 20 more. Another piece I managed to split off with 10 swings of the maul.

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The one and only wood species I encountered that wouldn't split is red beech - its grain grows wavy, not straight, not twisted.
Old folk claims it will stall tractor PTO powered hydraulic splitters and break PTO shafts on mechanical ones.

When I encounter anything that won't crack when I hit it with my Dragon Slayer I just noodle it!

 

[davidwyby]

You can see the wavy interlocking grain in the noodled piece in the background

 

[Wilhelm]

You can see the wavy interlocking grain in the noodled piece in the background

I noticed the look of that piece.
Gnarly!

 

[chiselbit]

Piper found this old steel falling wedge in our strip the other day, anybody know anything about them? We were wondering how old it might be. When did fallers start using plastic wedges?

 

[davidwyby]

That would be a good question for GF Beranek over on the treehouse forum.

 

[Squareground3691]

That would be a good question for GF Beranek over on the treehouse forum.

The Tree God ,

 

[julie wolf]

I have 5 steel wedges, 10" long x 3" wide, 2-1/2" thick, sharpened, and smack them with around a 6# mallet. So far they've disassembled even the tough stuff. @julie wolf might have pictures...

Unfortunately i don't have pictures.

 

[julie wolf]

I have 5 steel wedges, 10" long x 3" wide, 2-1/2" thick, sharpened, and smack them with around a 6# mallet. So far they've disassembled even the tough stuff. @julie wolf might have pictures...

Unfortunately i don't have pictures.

 

[julie wolf]

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I have 5 steel wedges, 10" long x 3" wide, 2-1/2" thick, sharpened, and smack them with around a 6# mallet. So far they've disassembled even the tough stuff. @julie wolf might have pictures...

I Lied, i found a couple pictures

 

[maulhead]

New splitter I've been working on, 6lb head on a 14" handle.

Short & thick like my 1st girlfriend.