Best Felling Axe

For me, axe and saw are not either/or, but both; just a matter of which ones.

For three seasons where I live, I could do well with my folding saw and a tomahawk or GB WH, even spending a lot of time ( weeks or even months) in the woods.

For winter up here -- late November through early March -- I'll take my larger triangular saw (blade folds into handle, attaches with thumbscrew -- spacing its name right now) plus a GB SFA. Building a decent long fire (6' logs stacked up pretty high against a backframe) is much easier with a larger axe than a hatchet. (In the taiga in serious winter, when temps dip into the double negative digits F, a long fire may use an entire spruce tree in one night.)

Of course, that's me the hiker talking. If I had a cabin like you, I'd have one set that works for all seasons, like your Trento and a larger saw.

 

Funny you should mention the Taiga. I just watched "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga" on Netflix last night, haha. I had seen it some time ago, but decided to watch it again last night when I saw it show up on Netflix.

 

^ One of the best -- and most relevant -- films of our time.

Too bad that most in suburbia can't see it for what it is:
survival outside of the infrastructure,
where nature is in control and
.gov has little influence.

 

Man, I hear that. A hard life, but the only life they know.

There was another program where a couple lived somewhere in the Arctic circle, and lived off the land. Wish I could remember the name of it. He had to kill bears to keep them from eating there food stores, etc. I remember they had an emergency structure built, in case anything happened to theirs, otherwise, they would freeze to death.

EDIT: Found it, called Heimo's Arctic Refuge:

 

Yeah, that one, too.

 

The Trentos come in today Ben?

 

@The Warrior -- great video on Heimo

 

Good deal man, I'll let momma know. Trento, with the special grade coming soon.

 

Just ordered the Trento, special grade. I should say, my wife just ordered it for me birthday. Looking forward to getting it in. I tried to order the edge protector stuff, but it wasn't in stock. I need to get a sheath for this thang.

 

Yeah, yeah, get off the forum, sharpen my axe, and ship it dammit, haha.

 

Jokes on you. That IS your axe.

 

Not.

 

Lol

 

St

Stalking the mailman like a housecat on a cricket?

 

Send me your address on the Conversation side and I will get you a strip of the green stuff, you saw in my pic, sent out tomorrow. Give me a bit length while you're at it. Or at least an approximation.

 

I appreciate the offer, but it's not necessary. Thinking of giving leather a go.