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I have never once been astonished by auction prices, because the hipster, or the hollow/shallow over-privileged, will pay any price to buy jewelry...
You can drill out the old wedge and make a new one out of any dry wood you can find laying around and drive it in. If the handle is really rotted...
Using this new technology called "book" that is installed on a shelf in my house, I found this for you: [IMG]
I know a guy who heats with wood for real, and spends all summer for years splitting with an axe he welded a pipe handle in. Zero problems with...
You are a good sport. I will always be amazed that there are $600 "tomahawks" for sale and people who buy them and their marketing. Amazing! I...
So I guess Ontario, Canada is some sort of war zone? I grew up running through the forests of Pennsylvania as a child with my friends and siblings...
I would not be too picky about the repairs to these, have some fun and experiment. Get a wire welder or a stick welder and put some tacks at the...
Broaden your variety of woods is one option. Do you live where there are no trees at all? You can try ANY wood at all that is growing around you....
The adze, the pick-axe, the mattock are all examples of tools used like the axe where there is no swell beneath the head of the tool, and that is...
Here is another great old Plumb hatchet with multiple wedges and the original wedge screw in the middle; [IMG]
An axe head does not have to be loose, but a snug sliding fit is fine. If you look at an adze, that has the head held on perfectly fine with NO...
After swinging axes, hatchets and mauls for almost fifty years, the only injury has been to my soul watching hipsters latch onto these tools as...
My "gizmo" for installing a handle without beating on the end of it, is to make the handle fit the eye of the tool so you don't have to beat on it...
Two old Plumb wedge-screw tools, a hammer and a hatchet. Someone has driven a piece of corrugated metal into the hammer, and the hatchet has lost...
I have an old Plumb hatchet that has the wedge screw with multiple wedges and it is an untouched original. I like the screw-wedge plumbs, I have a...
I like to use a one-man crosscut saw that has the same type of blade with cutters and rakers as the well-known two-man bucking saws. It is pretty...
There you go. If a chainsaw is your usual tool of choice, then a nice saw will do the same exact thing a chainsaw will do for you, just not as...
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Here is a thread about Plumb products using the wedge-screw. It shows that along with the screw they used multiple small wedges and cross-wedging;...
Whether a tree is upright or laying down, I think a wider range of branches will come off with a saw than an axe. You are older and smaller, so...
