C'est complet

[Mesquite]

I reckon I've seen an axe similar to what you describe ged.
Saw it on campcraft courses and I think it was used to fell American redwood? Absolute monster.

Was that the giant elwell axe a previous student had brought with them to use on the course Sam?

 

[ged]

Be nice if you could scan the pic and share it with us Ged.

I'm sure others beside me would like to see it

If I can find it you'll see it Steve.

 

[Man of Tanith]

Was that the giant elwell axe a previous student had brought with them to use on the course Sam?

Yeah that's the beastie
Got a shot somewhere of Ian Lawson leaning on it.and it's about same height as him

 

[Mesquite]

Yeah that's the beastie
Got a shot somewhere of Ian Lawson leaning on it.and it's about same height as him

... that thing was humongous...

It could be used as an executioners axe without any trouble

 

[Man of Tanith]

Didn't even dare pick it up to examine it.
Ridiculous for someone to think of using it. Twas mahoosive

 

[dave53]

where is the pic any links regards dave

 

[bearbait]

Wot? No chainsaw?

 

[ged]

Wot? No chainsaw?

One man couldn't lift one in 1930.

 

[maddave]

One man couldn't lift one in 1930.

[video=youtube;brfKKehFtmw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brfKKehFtmw[/video]

 

[drewdunnrespect]

David

u know i am skint and that i am not allowed to by more kit for the next year and u post a picture like that

U EVIL

drew

 

[British Red]

Thats funny - but this is the coolest log tool I have ever seen

[video=youtube;KdXzaGFkWfU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXzaGFkWfU[/video]

 

[Tralle]

complete!? you can never have enough!
Have a look at this page (sorry for the danish, google is your freind)
You still need the GB hunters axe, everybody does

 

[ged]

Be nice if you could scan the pic and share it with us Ged.

I'm sure others beside me would like to see it

If I can find it you'll see it Steve.

This is really scary. At the weekend, while I was writing about my uncle, six miles away my sister was ferreting through family photos including some of him. On Monday I asked her if she knew of the photo I've described here and she nearly fainted with the shock. Neither of us had looked at the photos or even mentioned them to anyone in I think over twenty-five years.

Anyway it isn't exactly the photo I described, but here's a similar one. The head on this axe is even bigger.

http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/uncle_eddie_axe_low_res.jpg

The print is about 80 years old, very faded and damaged, and the negative must be in Australia so it's the best I can do from the print with a scanner. I can email the full resolution image (half a megabyte) if anyone wants a copy.

I think it was taken somewhere around Kempsey, New South Wales (about half-way between Sydney and Brisbane) around the late 1920s or early 1930s. On the back of the print somebody has written in pencil what looks like 8th May, but unfortunately not the year.