I agree, started carrying a 3 1/2lbs Kelly Perfect axe hanged on a 28" Whiskey River handle, and it friggin rips, makes short work when gathering firewood for the camp.
People always laughed at me because I carried a 75 yr old 3 and a half pound axe on my backpack until we had to cut large downed trees and then they always asked to barrow my axe. When hiking I never cared about ounces or a couple of more pounds. I'm strong enough to carry it. I'm like you that the smaller axe's just don't do it for me. Glad to see your ok. Take care my brother !!! Kelly from Texas.
I never understood the pack weight with most hikers either, I’ve always collect old military surplus and that’s what I use to backpack/hike cause it’s strong and last forever, and I’m not a big person but I can carry over half my weight, I like carrying a full length machete for wood
@@outdoorvideoswithbrad Exactly ! I have always used my medium sized Alice pack because it's what I used in the military and it always outlasted those store bought packs and it is packed full of gear and I carry a lot on the outside as well and never had a problem.
I like hatchets/tomahawks, but i have a hand issue from an old injury and that makes chopping with them an issue with the impact of chopping, big knives are definitely a lot more comfortable, especially knives like the kbar kukri or the spec plus line with those rubber handles, plus the accuracy of batoning which is just more efficient, plus the versatility of knives over an axe.
I was born with a medical condition. It's a growth between my legs the doctors call it a nuttsack and because of that I pack whatever the hell I want in the woods. My long term Bug Out Bag is about 60lbs and has a Gransfors Bruk Scandinavian Forest Axe strapped on the side. 60lbs is nothing with my pack since it is built to carry loads double the weight. I have done 80lbs and it was ok, but 60lbs I can do all day long no issues, done it a million times. My wife carries the Gransfors Bruk Small Forest Axe on her pack. Nutnfancy has the perfect phrase coined for this Firepower vs. Mobility
I agree with you about Hatchets, to me they serve no purpose. Where I live in Canada, especially Northern Ontario a hatchet is useless. I'd rather carry a good axe and saw.
I'm with ya on the uselessness of a hatchet (SFA is a long handled hatchet). For the effort and weight of an axe, I would only use it for splitting ( Fiskars X25 @ $70 FTW!). It's heavy, so I'll walk a little slower. Falling and bucking, it's my Bigboy or Katanaboy 500 all day!
We all go through phases. Gear is only good if you use it. I go to stores now and buy nothing because I have too much crap, I realized the old fellas I always looked up to did everything with far less.
Sorry to hear about the hand Tac !! More importantly, say it isn’t so on the voluntary axe simplification Once that starts no end in sight!! Keep em’ sharp Tac !!
Good to see you again brother and good luck with your injuries! I hear you about the axes, but the Fiskars Norden N7 Hatchett, that my son saved up for and gave to me for my birthday, is definitely staying! 😉 All the best to you and mrs. T from the Netherlands!
If you want to fall a tree use a hand saw like a Silky big boy or equivalent. It will take sooo much less energy and so much less time. IF you want to cut down a BIG tree use a Katana boy... Thats an amazing saw that will cut a tree down sooo much faster then ANY axe could imagine AND its much less work. An axe is good for splitting wood you cut with a saw... OR smaller wood I would rather use a knife to split smaller wood.
Good to see you still kicking ass Tac! I just got married back in November so you're a bit late with the warning. Lol. I'm pretty much done collecting gear. I'm trying to sell a bunch of stuff to build up a down payment for a 1000cc crotch rocket
That’s why I like my Stihl pro universal forestry axe with an Ochsenkopf C60 2.8lbs head. It has a special 5 piece system to hang the head is virtually indestructible.
Tac 😮 I ain't seen you on the tube since you were shooting knife blades with centerfire boolits.😅 Don't want to guess how long that's been. SMH! Well, here's a thing. I split most of my bucked wood up to 8" width or so with a Marbles hatchet I bought for maybe $20, 20 years ago, lol. I use a 3lb handsledge ( metal, not rubber ) and baton with it. The poll has flattened a bit but not as much as you'd think and the handle is still rock steady. I started doing that because I had no respect for it as a cutting tool.Its a gem as a splitter tho! Just don't kneecap yourself with the sledgehammer. If I bury the head before it's splits the log, I have a piece of oak shaped to fit the poll and then gets wider and it always finishes the split. I have a Gransfor felling axe , 36 " handle, the large splitting axe and a Wetterlings felling axe. Stihl chainsaw for the rest. Then there's my Hanwei katana for delimbing, lol. Stop selling tools....your axing for trouble. :)) All the best Tac.
maybe you could do a history on some knife brands the way some watch channels do on certain watches ? e.g. the many different var on crkt =m16 folder? or some history on the jim bowie knife? good luck and please dont give up on your tac show/channel...
When I was in middle school we moved to the property where I still live, now (I'm 51). The house we moved into didn't have central heat and air and it was several years before Mom and Dad had central heat/air put in (I was in college by that point). In the Summer we ran a window unit AC. In cooler/cold weather we heated with a wood heater that was in the kitchen and had kerosene heaters as backup. There was plenty of wood on the property so I would help Dad get us set up with firewood for Winter. He had started helping his dad with cutting pulpwood when he was 12 and had held a few, different jobs doing similar things when he was younger so he knew what he was doing and was good with a chainsaw (I once heard a friend of his bet another guy that he could lay a quarter down anywhere around the circumference of a particular tree and that Dad would lay the tree over on it - the other guy declined the bet). So mostly felling, limbing and cutting wood into sections he did with the chainsaw. He kept a small camp axe handy in case he got most of the way through a tree and his gut told him it was safer to finish it off with an axe. I had a small hatchet I rarely used but as a middle schooler I thought it was awesome. Anyhow, splitting smaller stuff was done with an axe. Anything bigger than about the size of a large man's thigh and we used wedges and a maul. Point is I have used axes and know how to but don't really like them. With the kind of blades that are made now I would rather split smaller stuff with a heavy chopper knife, baton it for slightly larger stuff and, on the rare occasion I need to split something bigger out come the wedges and maul. I can take down small saplings faster, easier and, IMO, more safely with a heavy machete like my CRKT Halfachance than with a hatchet, small axe or even a bow saw (I tested the three of them in a stand if saplings one day). That's just me but those were my results. These days, when camping or the like, anything I might want something 'axe like' for I prefer using a large tomahawk like a CRKT Woods Chogan or a Cold Steel Rifleman's Hawk. I still have a couple of axes - one full size, one boy's axe - and a few hatchets that I keep just in case because sometimes (rarely) you just need an axe but I'm really not all that crazy about them.
Pimpin glad to see you. It’s seems like we reach a point in life where we just know what we like and what we dislike in life. I know the tomahawk I have I don’t enjoy cutting big stuff with I started throwing the old double edged axe in the mix.
Glade your back and doing well. Never been a fan of hatchet. They are almost useless. I do like tomahawks but mostly for play. My most used is a splitting mull. Just don't use axes much. Really though I don't have a wood stove anymore. So my use is mostly camping and wood burning grill. So I use a saw and a wedge. Anyway good to see you back and full of piss and vinegar as usual! You the man
Youre too ornery to be taken out yet my friend hahaha Ive been on the ride with ya for a long time now. I fell in love with blackjack knives because of you. Stay strong and cruise along brother. Until the next time we meet......
I do the same vicious cycle. Over,and over. Get a good deal on something and sell later for same or more. I just bought Hk Mk 23. Why/the history. So I’ll sell some others to pay for that. Nice channel
Reckoned you would go lighter after couple hand surgeries. Thats how i have gone. Hit 50 years old, now shoulder and hand wrist issues. Ive sold my heavy axes gone to lighter. Different tools for different situations, homesteading vs bushwhacking
I stick an ace heavy hatchet in a pallet between boards and then hammer the hammer end free floating-it drives the hatchet to clean cut off the nails that hold the pallet together .. ...i got an ace hardware double head axe and i can always carry its head and make the wooden handle diy easy...all you need is a hammer ended axe head to drive with a big old hammer
Total weight of that axe? Handle length? There are bigger Swedish axes.. I have a head near that, 1,3 kg and and handle was 70, need to get a new one but.
Hatchets are awesome for crafting and fireplace duty. They aren't meant for felling and heavy work. I do a fair amount of greenwood carving with my hatchets and they are the right tool for carving. I use my boy's axe for felling and utility work right tool for the job.
For me a hatchet is for splitting firewood aka arm sized or slighly bigger. I dont chop down hugger size trees. A bow saw works fine for leg size trees And a bahco laplaner is just right for bucking arm sizers too. A bow saw for leg sizers. Thats my point for an axe or hatchet.
I have the gransfors sfa and hunters axe and I agree they are nice and ok but when it comes to real work they fall short big time..my junglas can do just as much
Aaaah yeah! Thing is you don't seem to do much bushcrafting/camping/hiking expedition. Of course to work on your land a hatchet isn't much use, as are big knives. For me I'm selling my big blades because for bushcraft they're just not as cool as a hatchet and a small knife. And to work on my land Silky saws and bigger axes.
Paused at the 2:17 mark to comment as to what you just said. lol " Yeah Tac, I know brother!!! 34 years and counting." ha Gregg from Cincinnati waving a hand at you, brother. Now, back to the video. You be good. Be careful. Stay out of trouble. *BOOM*
Love your videos and humor and thats never gonna change 😊
High 5 sis!
I agree, started carrying a 3 1/2lbs Kelly Perfect axe hanged on a 28" Whiskey River handle, and it friggin rips, makes short work when gathering firewood for the camp.
I’ll br prayin for ya man, i hope your recovery is fast!
People always laughed at me because I carried a 75 yr old 3 and a half pound axe on my backpack until we had to cut large downed trees and then they always asked to barrow my axe. When hiking I never cared about ounces or a couple of more pounds. I'm strong enough to carry it. I'm like you that the smaller axe's just don't do it for me. Glad to see your ok. Take care my brother !!! Kelly from Texas.
Old school is the best
I never understood the pack weight with most hikers either, I’ve always collect old military surplus and that’s what I use to backpack/hike cause it’s strong and last forever, and I’m not a big person but I can carry over half my weight, I like carrying a full length machete for wood
@@outdoorvideoswithbrad Exactly ! I have always used my medium sized Alice pack because it's what I used in the military and it always outlasted those store bought packs and it is packed full of gear and I carry a lot on the outside as well and never had a problem.
As I age im finding smaller knives with nice fat handles are awesome .
I totally understand this message.
I hear ya
Best channel
"Triggerfingersurgery" is the most American thing i have ever heard uttered :) hahaha god damn Tac!
Snake
"That's the ol' battleaxe"
Been a ~bit~ since I have heard that one.
Dude! I am so done with axes/hatches for Bushcraft. Home use only. So I agree.
love from the backyard, and a wish of good and fast healing. Please rember to give your body the time it neeeds
Both playboy! I like smaller axes and hachets for camping/bushcraft. Plus my boy can use them
That custom job is SWEET!
Lmao always entertaining! 👊💀🍻🇺🇲🍻🏴☠️🍻
Good Seeing you brother!
I had both hands done Tac, you'll be fine. Rehab and no vibration for awhile. That's not what she said! 💪👍
🎵 Tac !!! Is back ...
The man behind the Mask.
Oh he is back, the man behind the Mask. 🎶
Hell yeah Tac. Been your fan since Tactical was doin ATV action and the Zombie stories. Be happy my dude! Holy shit its good to hear you tough guy 💪
Great to see you again Tac. Glad your surgery went well and you are recovering.
I like hatchets/tomahawks, but i have a hand issue from an old injury and that makes chopping with them an issue with the impact of chopping, big knives are definitely a lot more comfortable, especially knives like the kbar kukri or the spec plus line with those rubber handles, plus the accuracy of batoning which is just more efficient, plus the versatility of knives over an axe.
I was born with a medical condition. It's a growth between my legs the doctors call it a nuttsack and because of that I pack whatever the hell I want in the woods. My long term Bug Out Bag is about 60lbs and has a Gransfors Bruk Scandinavian Forest Axe strapped on the side. 60lbs is nothing with my pack since it is built to carry loads double the weight. I have done 80lbs and it was ok, but 60lbs I can do all day long no issues, done it a million times. My wife carries the Gransfors Bruk Small Forest Axe on her pack. Nutnfancy has the perfect phrase coined for this Firepower vs. Mobility
I like the carpenter's axe the best with the thin, straight cutting edge, but I use the Silky Saw the best for felling.
And thats the point. Why would you use an axe to fell a tree if you could use a saw? Its less exhausting and less dangerous.
I agree with you about Hatchets, to me they serve no purpose. Where I live in Canada, especially Northern Ontario a hatchet is useless. I'd rather carry a good axe and saw.
Small tools are nice untill it comes to a big job. Good to see you brother.
I'm with ya on the uselessness of a hatchet (SFA is a long handled hatchet). For the effort and weight of an axe, I would only use it for splitting ( Fiskars X25 @ $70 FTW!). It's heavy, so I'll walk a little slower. Falling and bucking, it's my Bigboy or Katanaboy 500 all day!
Finally had the time to watch ur stuff. Good to see you brother.
Edit : even the Mona Lisa is falling apart, take care.
We all go through phases. Gear is only good if you use it. I go to stores now and buy nothing because I have too much crap, I realized the old fellas I always looked up to did everything with far less.
WOE, you scared me for a moment. I thought you were going to say you were done with Zombie videos😂
Sorry to hear about the hand Tac !!
More importantly, say it isn’t so on the voluntary axe simplification
Once that starts no end in sight!!
Keep em’ sharp Tac !!
Good to see you again brother and good luck with your injuries! I hear you about the axes, but the Fiskars Norden N7 Hatchett, that my son saved up for and gave to me for my birthday, is definitely staying! 😉 All the best to you and mrs. T from the Netherlands!
Start a Spear collection Tac!
If you want to fall a tree use a hand saw like a Silky big boy or equivalent. It will take sooo much less energy and so much less time. IF you want to cut down a BIG tree use a Katana boy... Thats an amazing saw that will cut a tree down sooo much faster then ANY axe could imagine AND its much less work. An axe is good for splitting wood you cut with a saw... OR smaller wood I would rather use a knife to split smaller wood.
I hear ya Tac! Glad to see ya back, look forward to the future content brother!
Good to see you still kicking ass Tac! I just got married back in November so you're a bit late with the warning. Lol. I'm pretty much done collecting gear. I'm trying to sell a bunch of stuff to build up a down payment for a 1000cc crotch rocket
I have a collection, ain't buying no more. I miss hammer poll. Thick, heavy machete works for me.
Glad to hear youre doin good Tac. Stay awesome brotha
Get well soon Tak, peace and prosperity rule…
That’s why I like my Stihl pro universal forestry axe with an Ochsenkopf C60 2.8lbs head. It has a special 5 piece system to hang the head is virtually indestructible.
You make a good point with the smaller axes my friend less destruction equals more work always good to see tac! Thumbs 👍
Right on
Hey tac, you wanna get rid of that little gransfors axe… send er over ill take it 😂
Great to see you, buddy. Glad your surgery went well!
Big bro! So glad ur doin good. Changed my name, I was The Dragon Lady. U sent me a Schrade knife that hooks like the leg. Love that thing 😊
Tac 😮 I ain't seen you on the tube since you were shooting knife blades with centerfire boolits.😅 Don't want to guess how long that's been. SMH! Well, here's a thing. I split most of my bucked wood up to 8" width or so with a Marbles hatchet I bought for maybe $20, 20 years ago, lol. I use a 3lb handsledge ( metal, not rubber ) and baton with it. The poll has flattened a bit but not as much as you'd think and the handle is still rock steady. I started doing that because I had no respect for it as a cutting tool.Its a gem as a splitter tho! Just don't kneecap yourself with the sledgehammer. If I bury the head before it's splits the log, I have a piece of oak shaped to fit the poll and then gets wider and it always finishes the split. I have a Gransfor felling axe , 36 " handle, the large splitting axe and a Wetterlings felling axe. Stihl chainsaw for the rest. Then there's my Hanwei katana for delimbing, lol. Stop selling tools....your axing for trouble. :)) All the best Tac.
Good to see ya again tac.keep the vids comein..spring is here time for a dune buggy ride👍
Speedy recovery, phones always go off at the most inopportune time
maybe you could do a history on some knife brands the way some watch channels do on certain watches ? e.g. the many different var on crkt =m16 folder? or some history on the jim bowie knife? good luck and please dont give up on your tac show/channel...
Always good to seeya brother Tac!
When I was in middle school we moved to the property where I still live, now (I'm 51). The house we moved into didn't have central heat and air and it was several years before Mom and Dad had central heat/air put in (I was in college by that point). In the Summer we ran a window unit AC. In cooler/cold weather we heated with a wood heater that was in the kitchen and had kerosene heaters as backup. There was plenty of wood on the property so I would help Dad get us set up with firewood for Winter. He had started helping his dad with cutting pulpwood when he was 12 and had held a few, different jobs doing similar things when he was younger so he knew what he was doing and was good with a chainsaw (I once heard a friend of his bet another guy that he could lay a quarter down anywhere around the circumference of a particular tree and that Dad would lay the tree over on it - the other guy declined the bet). So mostly felling, limbing and cutting wood into sections he did with the chainsaw. He kept a small camp axe handy in case he got most of the way through a tree and his gut told him it was safer to finish it off with an axe. I had a small hatchet I rarely used but as a middle schooler I thought it was awesome. Anyhow, splitting smaller stuff was done with an axe. Anything bigger than about the size of a large man's thigh and we used wedges and a maul. Point is I have used axes and know how to but don't really like them. With the kind of blades that are made now I would rather split smaller stuff with a heavy chopper knife, baton it for slightly larger stuff and, on the rare occasion I need to split something bigger out come the wedges and maul. I can take down small saplings faster, easier and, IMO, more safely with a heavy machete like my CRKT Halfachance than with a hatchet, small axe or even a bow saw (I tested the three of them in a stand if saplings one day). That's just me but those were my results. These days, when camping or the like, anything I might want something 'axe like' for I prefer using a large tomahawk like a CRKT Woods Chogan or a Cold Steel Rifleman's Hawk. I still have a couple of axes - one full size, one boy's axe - and a few hatchets that I keep just in case because sometimes (rarely) you just need an axe but I'm really not all that crazy about them.
Pimpin glad to see you. It’s seems like we reach a point in life where we just know what we like and what we dislike in life. I know the tomahawk I have I don’t enjoy cutting big stuff with I started throwing the old double edged axe in the mix.
Keep safe stay well tac
Good to see ya brother tac.... next time we wanne kno what u do enjoy lately..😎👍👍
Always good to see you Tac, take care till next time
Good to see you playboy! Surgery sucks! DBTB! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Glade your back and doing well.
Never been a fan of hatchet. They are almost useless.
I do like tomahawks but mostly for play.
My most used is a splitting mull. Just don't use axes much.
Really though I don't have a wood stove anymore. So my use is mostly camping and wood burning grill. So I use a saw and a wedge.
Anyway good to see you back and full of piss and vinegar as usual!
You the man
Love tac you are awesome keep goin moving forward
Youre too ornery to be taken out yet my friend hahaha Ive been on the ride with ya for a long time now. I fell in love with blackjack knives because of you. Stay strong and cruise along brother. Until the next time we meet......
I do the same vicious cycle. Over,and over. Get a good deal on something and sell later for same or more. I just bought Hk Mk 23. Why/the history. So I’ll sell some others to pay for that. Nice channel
I've gotta see your review of that knot klipper build bro
coming soon
@@cbr600rrturbo thanks playboy
Does that include tomahawks? Do you still have that wicked flipper pocket knife I think it was called a black mamba?
Glad to see ya back Tac!!! Hope all is well my fellow NYer
Reckoned you would go lighter after couple hand surgeries. Thats how i have gone. Hit 50 years old, now shoulder and hand wrist issues. Ive sold my heavy axes gone to lighter. Different tools for different situations, homesteading vs bushwhacking
Few people know, but Tac had to go through a trigger finger surgery because he was too trigger happy looking at what's going on in the world.
What axe, knife and gun are you taking on a bugout" Red Dawn" journey?
Tac in 10 years "Maaaaan I need some easier to wield axes" Me "well you sold em all" lol, you rock Tac
I stick an ace heavy hatchet in a pallet between boards and then hammer the hammer end free floating-it drives the hatchet to clean cut off the nails that hold the pallet together .. ...i got an ace hardware double head axe and i can always carry its head and make the wooden handle diy easy...all you need is a hammer ended axe head to drive with a big old hammer
Total weight of that axe? Handle length? There are bigger Swedish axes.. I have a head near that, 1,3 kg and and handle was 70, need to get a new one but.
yo tac been waiting for you...best of luck to you.
i remeber we used to play dbd together fun seeing you again!
That big boy reminds me of a Basque axe (Spanish)
That small Forrest axe is my dream axe. Tac do you still have any of those black jack knives ? Those were pretty awesome
I'm dome with the small stuff and gonna keep the bigger ones. That's what she said 😂.
Dam playboy haha.
Hatchets are awesome for crafting and fireplace duty. They aren't meant for felling and heavy work. I do a fair amount of greenwood carving with my hatchets and they are the right tool for carving. I use my boy's axe for felling and utility work right tool for the job.
Waiting for the next show.
Your vids are awesome!
I definitely want to buy something off you.
Tac, Do you have a Survival Lilly Apo1 knife?
Based video Tac
For me a hatchet is for splitting firewood aka arm sized or slighly bigger. I dont chop down hugger size trees. A bow saw works fine for leg size trees And a bahco laplaner is just right for bucking arm sizers too. A bow saw for leg sizers. Thats my point for an axe or hatchet.
Glad to hear your still alive buddy. Stay safe
Tac is the mack.
Glad to see you back.
Those are some fine axes you have got there...
Move south w the good ol boys, Tac. Get out of that state. Former Oneida county guy here
I also hate hatchets. I only have one for kindling and killing chickens.
Glad your back TAC
I have the gransfors sfa and hunters axe and I agree they are nice and ok but when it comes to real work they fall short big time..my junglas can do just as much
Hell yeah Tac is back, missed you brother. Marriage is like Jail, its not for eveyone.
Best wishes Playboy
No hatchets but still keeping the battle axe
Tac my brother always a pressure
Awwwwww yeeeeah, tac's talking shit again hahahaha. You're the best man
If you want a real axe, get a Rinaldi Trento …
what about fiskars polymer handles? more durable, better shock absorption, and lighter weight
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Aaaah yeah! Thing is you don't seem to do much bushcrafting/camping/hiking expedition. Of course to work on your land a hatchet isn't much use, as are big knives.
For me I'm selling my big blades because for bushcraft they're just not as cool as a hatchet and a small knife. And to work on my land Silky saws and bigger axes.
Good to see you my brother
Young age like me I hope I won't need to get surgery even after shtf lol
Love seeing you my brother it's been a long time stay safe my man👍👍👍👍
You too
Tac Man. Le Tac. Tacticool. Tac Bro. Interesting vids I have seen. Just to say. Lol. Sup internet dude!
Keep chip choppin. Cheers.
Paused at the 2:17 mark to comment as to what you just said. lol " Yeah Tac, I know brother!!! 34 years and counting." ha Gregg from Cincinnati waving a hand at you, brother. Now, back to the video. You be good. Be careful. Stay out of trouble. *BOOM*
I'd take that small forest axe off your hands hahaha
Hell yes!!! Nice banger!
So where you selling ?