Always use a chopping log

[leon-1]

Anyone that has seen the thread on Dartmoor will know that I spent a considerable amount of time sharpening my axe, but the major cause of this was because I cleaved through a nice piece of Ash and ended up in the dirt.

Many will have done the same, but if you use a decent sized log to chop against you will not have to go through the pain and suffering that I went through.

I had to blunt the axe and then resharpen (the ground down here is full of granite). :shock:

How many have had the same experience and don't wan't to go through it again???? :evil:

 

[BorderReiver]

Always use a chopping block because I like to get a bit of height on the log I'm chopping.
This is more comfortable for me and makes it less likely to get an axe in the foot

 

[Ed]

How many have had the same experience and don't wan't to go through it again????

Yep... only once.... when I was doing my knife and axe with the scouts. :-( although I learned from my mistake and luckily it was just a cheap scout axe..... I've never done it since.


Ed

 

[leon-1]

Yep it's definitely not a learning experience that I would like to repeat in a hurry :-D

 

[JimFSC]

Alas barely two weeks have passed since my Gransfors Brux forest axe was accidentally borrowed by a fellow camper to teach a beginer and I arrived on the scene 20 minutes later to discover that my axe had a ding in the middle of the blade from a pebble T:

It had also been swung with the sheaf still on (my axe was barely a month old!). I kept my cool but now my axe sleeps in my shelter with me not the wood pile area and as many say never lend your good axe or knife to anyone!! :tw:

 

[BorderReiver]

my axe had a ding in the middle of the blade from a pebble T:

It had also been swung with the sheaf still on (my axe was barely a month old!).

:shock: :shock: :shock: Flogging's too good for 'em :twisted:

 

[Roving Rich]

Yep, I got a beautiful polished edge that you could shave with. Then trying to economise on pack weight it got used as a digging implement for a latrine....straight into flint .. :twisted:
I now carry a trowel and "chain" saw.
Cheers
Rich

 

[Ed]

Then trying to economise on pack weight it got used as a digging implement for a latrine....straight into flint ..

:yikes: Does someone want to show roving how to carve a digging stick!!!!

Ed

 

[Roving Rich]

yeh yeh, there were no sticks of any size about and the ground was rock hard anyway

cheers
RR