This past weekend I saw a couple threads on axes, and the
prices of new axes ...made me wonder what the replacement
cost would be if mine got lost. I got this axe from my dad about
30 years ago when I started up my first trapline; he doesn't
know where he got it but it wasn't new at that time. So that
got me onto the internet. I could faintly read the words
WALTERS and Black Diamond, so I searched it out and found
that the Walters Axe Company,from Hull Quebec, was the biggest supplier of axes
to the Ontario lumbering operations from 1850 to the 1960s,
when lumbermen stopped limbing with axes and basically used
saws for the whole felling-limbing process. An attempt to get
a date for this specific axe proved too difficult, but at least I
know it was made back when whoever made it cared about
making it with quality steel. If anyone has more info, I'd be
interested to hear more...
prices of new axes ...made me wonder what the replacement
cost would be if mine got lost. I got this axe from my dad about
30 years ago when I started up my first trapline; he doesn't
know where he got it but it wasn't new at that time. So that
got me onto the internet. I could faintly read the words
WALTERS and Black Diamond, so I searched it out and found
that the Walters Axe Company,from Hull Quebec, was the biggest supplier of axes
to the Ontario lumbering operations from 1850 to the 1960s,
when lumbermen stopped limbing with axes and basically used
saws for the whole felling-limbing process. An attempt to get
a date for this specific axe proved too difficult, but at least I
know it was made back when whoever made it cared about
making it with quality steel. If anyone has more info, I'd be
interested to hear more...
