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Since pickling often involves colder water or is added to the mason jar directly, pickling salt is intentionally made smaller to facilitate it dissolving into water and what is being canned. Big salt flakes will do the same thing, it just takes longer. Pickling salt around me can be hard to...

If you have one of the "Y2K Prepper" air-tight food storage containers, put fully dry beans in it and flush it with Nitrogen gas to remove all the Oxygen and they will last a really long time. For really old dry beans, pre-soak in Salted water to break down the tough outer layers of the bean...

Table salt is available commonly in the USA with and without Iodine but, Iodine is not the problem with the issue noted above about soft slimy runner beans. I don't recall ever seeing Kosher salt with iodine listed.

Table salt in the USA has all sorts of "anti-caking agents" in it so, it can't be used to can with for the reasons you noted. Kosher salt is a large flake salt that is NOT contaminated most of the time with other stuff like Anti-Cacking agents. I think it is Oak leaves but, I could be wrong...

German bureaucracy can be a real challenge at times. I loved my time there but, some of the rules would drive you nuts! The people there were always really supportive of each other from what I saw. Friendships there are very deep and long-lasting so if you are new, it takes a long time to...

I personally lived through this type of scenario in a massive tornado strike that took down the Nuclear power plant in addition to the power lines. I was there for three weeks with no electricity, and two weeks with none in a 60-mile radius! Well water so, no electricity for the well pump. No...

There is a drastic difference if you are talking about quality electronics from well-respected brands. Cheap stuff from third world countries might not hold up but, just look at the abuse cellphones and smart watches tackle on a routine basis today versus the past. If my electronics have the...

We aren't living in the stone age or the 1950's either. Most modern electronics have protection for EMP'ish things. Sure a comet or solar flare will cause some temporary problems occasionally too. Heck, bad weather takes my Internet and Cellphone away until it clears frequently. Unless we...

Couch-bound Commandos and Chair-born Rangers can whine all they want about steel selection choices but, the reality is that most of us do fine with the well-proven knife steels in use for decades. Heck, properly heat treated 1095 has served me well for decades in a New Livesay "Wicked Knives"...

Magnacut seems to be a really good steel for knives right now. Sort of an M4-Stainless with the right heat treat. That being said though, I still tend to think 14cn28 and AUS-10 are great options for slip-joint knives and small fixed blades but, I'm holding out for Magnacut right now.

That should be an easy warranty claim. It looks like a heat treat defect or stress fracture which should be an easy one for Shrade to replace. I'm not sure what part of the world you are in so, that may complicate things a little if you are overseas. In the EU/UK, it shouldn't be too hard to...

It looks like Stihl has added a few axes since the last time I shopped there. The "cleaving hatchet" is one I have and it cost me $35 which was only ~$10 more than a Lowes or Home Depot cheap knock-off hatchet from China at the time. Not what I would want on hard oak or hackberry but, pretty...

I am curious about the Prandi axe with splitting wedge and Stubai Superspalter. How do these two compare to each other? Is the steel noticeably different in them? Does anyone have experience with either or both "in the field"? I would like to find one in a ~2lb/1Kg with a ~24"/600mm haft...

Most likely stuck in a limb or stump when the user 'wrenched' the head out with lateral stress on the haft/handle.

One of these days, I hope to run across what I see often referred to as a "spaltaxt" which has a narrow wedge in the head to cut friction as you wedge the wood apart. The form factor of the 'rectangular' heads like that Hultafor has puts a lot of weight behind the wedge to split effectively.

Hmm, I wonder if it isn't sharp and causing her some problems.

Something like this would work well for you: Hultafors splitting axe KLY 7-0.9 SV Stihl has a good splitter in the USA for $35USD that I believe is made by Ochsenkopf out of Germany.

A heavier head and longer haft will both make your job much easier!

A good blacksmith can take the bend out. Annealing the steel will take the hardness away but, any good blacksmith will heat it up and quench to keep it hard.

That looks a lot like the Hultafors Hatchet H006SV model with a different name on the Haft.