What is the BEST Axe Handle Setup? Testing a Backwards Axe Handle!
2023 ж. 23 Қаз.
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Thanks for working with us Jake. It was a fun job. We safely dropped 14 cottonwoods and alders and cleared a ton of blackberries in under 5 hours and the customer is happy. And for the record I'm only 58! :)
Lately I just use a little baby sledgehammer for my wedges
Me too
Why that instead of an axe?
What axe head do you recommend for the handle you sell?
For me, it's easier to keep up with, and the handle is not as long which grabs everything when you're walking through bushes and stuff, but that's just me. I don't cut as much timber as I ounce did. But let me tell you this though you can't beat an ax when it comes to cutting stuff around a tree .
Yer works well. An no sharp edge bouncin back at ya. Spose if full time felling need the axe.cheers
Thanks for the vid, Jake. And congratulations on all the subscribers! 👍
Nice job guys! Fun to watch big wood come down!
Those plum handles look amazing, keep up the good work mate, stay safe 👍
This idea is completely axe backwards!
My cousin and I love working in the woods. Our favorite pastime is firewood season and cleaning up family property. We were tired of spilling bar oil all the time. We use a push button dispenser laundry detergent jug for our bar oil now and we really like it. It's a little slower to fill the saw but never spill oil now. To us it's worth the extra few seconds to keep things cleaner and les waste. Especially with the price of oil now. When it's cold we set the oil jug by the heater vent in the truck on the way to where we're working to warm it up so it pours better too.
Great video! Beautiful area!!
Great cutting speed for a slash cut on a cotton wood 👌🏽
I have a small Gränsfors axe it's a purpose built wedge banger that came with the handle "twisted" it's supernice cause like you said most of the time you bang wedge's and do very little chopping. This axe was made in a small batch here in Sweden and i lucked out and got one but what i want to say is that it works really well for small axes heads but I prefer the handle hanged as i with heavy heads like to have maximum control when chopping even if it's a small part of the time you use the axe. You usually don't chopp your leg banging a wedge.
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Hard to pick a favorite. Maybe the table with the islands
I use my gransfors bruk small forest axe to pound wedges with. It’s a slight curved handle. It’s real comfortable to pound wedges with
I saw one of your channel's hoodies on a guy in Lake Stevens yesterday!😮
Spent a lot of time swinging round handle sledges and mauls. So I like the handle in my hand not in my fingers like an axe handle. But everyone swing what feels good. 👍
Enjoyed the video. Cottonwoods break easy...and clean. Once you get use to the way they snap they're a lot of fun. Climbing can be a little nerve racking....but still fun limbing them out.....as long as you have a nice drop zone. Rigging should be set up fish pole like to spread the weight.
I flipped the head around on my wedge banger a few years ago and i love it , works great for me . I sent one to buckin and he didn't like it either so i guess im just an odd ball 🤣
Congratulations again Jake from Ontario Canada
Cheers mate, also from Ontario Canada 🤙🏼
Great video jake its so weird to see u not be the lead not that other guy think was but was just odd seeing him critique the cuts. 🏴👍
I have a few curved handles on axes and hatchets, but I find the straight is better all-around for me. I've chopped down several 20"+ trees with a double bit and/or a straight handle jersey. Straight handle rafting axe (hardened poll) ought to be hard to beat for driving wedges for felling and no impediment to chopping unless the handle is really short. In my opinion, the curved handle is a nuisance, but most think it looks cool. Now, curved handle backwards for felling -- that was thinking outside the box! Imagine if it had been great.
Hey Jake, long time viewer here. Been watching you all the way back when you were still with those thieves at east side. Have learned absolutely so much from you and am happy to say I made my first couple purchases from sappy supplies. Got the Klimair 2 in 1, the buck carrier, and a few things for speed lining. Glad I’m able to support you man.
What happened between him and east side?
Wouldn’t a maul on a shorter handle be better for pounding wedges ? Could also be used for a wedge itself too? Idk I’m just a landscaper you boys are the pros.
I Build a Reversed 14lb demolition Hammer with a reversed axe handle it works pretty well. Greatings from germany, i think i wrote a lot wrong.
You are turning inventive 😂
Thanks!
I think the curved handles a designed for overhead swinging & not side arm. Thats why the straight arm works so well side armed. Good video
As for the title of the video… as soon as I read it, I thought I’d click on the video and I’d hear you exclaim loudly, “NOPE!” and that would be the end… 😂😂😂
Hey buddy how are you hope all is well great video god bless
8:07 danger😮
A 3 to 4 lb engineers hammer works good to 18" to 24" handle
I much prefer a 4lb mini sledgehammer / Engineers Hammer.
What is the name of your them song? It fits your videos perfectly!
Fulcrum aka , gravity pointy tippy area .
Glad to see you try this because I've wondered the same thing. I wonder if it feels so weird because you're essentially using a hammer on an axe handle? I don't know that I've ever seen a hammer with as much of a curve as an axe handle
I used to work construction, but what I'm typing is more of a "what I think based on my experience" and not an "I absolutely know" type of thing. You develop a good sense of wrist positioning and the alignment of your wrist, elbow, and shoulder to make a powerful and efficient swing without sacrificing accuracy or slowly damaging the tendons in your arm. A curved handle would completely change that alignment as well as the motion of your swing. What I think was happening to Jake was a little different though. If you look at a hammer the face of it is parallel to the center line of the handle. With a curved handle, there's only one spot where the center line of the handle is parallel to the face. Anywhere else, and the difference of the angle between the back face of the axe and the center line of the handle makes it so that there's a bit of a sideways force transferring through the length of the angle and making it so you're losing power and control over your swing.
Trying out ideas that may not work is a good way of learning new things, even if it is only "well that didn't work". And sometimes, it sets us on a path to outstanding "new learnings"
Hey, Jake, that little rope wrench. You're using or did you get that from thank you
1MM subs! Did you think you'd be here a couple years ago, Jacob?
oh dear indeed
Longer handles on heavy heads are for straight down or low swings. Maybe try a 2.5 or 3 pound hammer head without a blade. I like the experiments. I'm guessing you are just use to the shorter handle.
With the "velocity" of the swing, it is also technique. Most people don't know how to swing an axe for maximum impact
Watching Jake's leading hand slide along his straight handled axe is how it should be done for maximum force. Most people swing an axe with both hands with a death-grip on the end of the handle which is also hard work
You may want to recalibrate the sights on the saw ha ha.
Straight handle for maximum versatility
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
That's what you call a Back Axe ward handle!
Editing at 3:25 was hysterical
Believe it or not, that axe went between those wedges 4x in a row. it wasn't edited!
Walnut trees fruit every other year
If I had to say anything about that makes you work a little bit harder😂
Whenever I see you do the side cuts I always think back to that big spruce you did, maybe down in Oregon, where the guy say "make sure you cut through your hinge" and you were like "yeah ok I'll be sure to do that" and then cut through your hinge lmao
how about a video where you drop a big tree with only an axe
Where should we get axe heads tho
ฉันทำงานเกี่ยวกับเครื่องจักรกล และ งานต้นไม้คืองาน สุดสัปดาห์ของฉันเหมือนกัน คุณเดฟพูดถูกว่างานต้นไม้คืองานที่สนุก และ วิดีโอของคุณก็ดีและสนุกทุกตอน
@Buckin' Billy Ray Smith tried the backwards handle a couple of years back and decided that it was his most hated axe..... EVER!!! It's nice to know that it's not just Buckin' that hates it 😂 Sorry Jake
Hi Jacob, why are you not working with spindle wedges? Best wishes from Germany.
Wenn BastIng oder Fortsreich ihm ein Set schicken würde, würde er es sicher benutzen. Ich glaube die sind da drüben nicht so leicht zu bekommen...
Man kann sie hier bestellen.
It would be very interesting to see Jacob test Bast-Ing's "ValFast" spindle wedges and / or Forstreich's "Fällkeil" spindle wedges. I wonder if either company is looking for a distributor in the US, and thus would be willing to get any required safety certifications in the US and work with Sappy Supplies as a vendor.
Jake I would personally be kind of scared working around someone with a backwards axe handle.
LOL... I haven't watched "scarry movies" since I was a kid
That saw sounds like its strate piped
Is that saw stock?
How does one go about getting a job like this
Probably because the curved handles are for swinging vertically not horizontally
really wish you wouldn't do jump cuts when you're trying to show how a saw runs (clip at the end of the video) We just wanna see the saw rip!
I would really like to work with you one time.
Back axewords
An Axe isn’t a hammer!!! A small mallet- sledge is way more efficient to pound on wedges!!! Try it!!👍👍
Omg
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It's not if you fall it's when.
At least you didn't hit the kale.
Putting your ax handle on backwards is about as effective and putting your chain on backwards🤣
One time JR and Superman had a contest to see who could fell a tree the best. The loser had to wear his underpants on the outside for the rest of his life.
You don't know what you don't know. That is why we experiment. Now you know.
Pushing with the tractor is risky.....it could of cracked off the stump and back on the tractor
I love my 592 that thing is a hog!
Can I pound your wedges? Tap. Tap. I guess not. 😅
That's just axe backwards. Like ass backwards. Get it....
Jake I love you brother. But everyone talks about that husky that works great after they fix something. It's always after something gets fixed. Stihl is great right out the box. Nothing fixed. That's why us older tree men only run Stihl. Because that back cut can't wait til after something is fixed.
Cottonwood limbs snap like carrots 😬
thats an axe backwards axe
Love your channel but honestly would prefer your older style videos that are longer form. Sped up footage and excessive edits make it less enjoyable to watch.