if it's a choice between one, or the other, then it has to be an axe (multiple uses win's everytime :D)
but a small folding saw take up little room and weight is minimal. So in reality you can afford to take both :rolleyes:
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if it's a choice between one, or the other, then it has to be an axe (multiple uses win's everytime :D)
but a small folding saw take up little room and weight is minimal. So in reality you can afford to take both :rolleyes:
+1 for Husq-y. They're real gems here in the US since the company is currently paired with Hults Bruks (however, Hults axes aren't sold to the US :().Quote:
Originally Posted by HillBill
I would take both an axe is multi-use and a saw takes up very little room. I hate to use a good knife for splitting.
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Doc
For that question I can give you a quote from the book "Bushcraft" written by Mors Kochanski:
I can highly recommend this book!! It's really a great book with much usefull informations. And it's all well described, so that it is easy to understand.Quote:
The Saw and the axe are complementary in function.The axe is the more hazardous tool, requiring experience and constant attentiveness to use safely. The axe is especially dangerous to use after dark. A saw, on the other hand, may be used by a blind person under most circumstances. The axe takes weeks of constant use to master whereas the saw requires a few hours.
A big saw and a small axe are a good combination employing the best functions of both tools when there is no time to master the axe. Most of the work is accomplished by the saw and the axe serves a back-up. Limbing is more conveniently done with the axe. Wedges are easily made and pounded in with an axe.
The axe is more versatile and must be the first choice if limited to one tool. An axe may fall, limb and section any size of tree. Splitting and shaving wood, making and pounding in pegs or chopping holes in ice are impossible with a saw.
The depth of a Swede saw's bow limits the size of tree it can cut though. Outside of this restriction, it can fall and section a tree with fraction of the exertion and with greater convenience in confined or awkward situations, such as cutting in dense growth or above the head. With the assistance of wedges, a saw can fall a tree in directions impossible with an axe alone, but the saw can not make or pound in the wedges. The saw can make squared ends and thin sections of log or boards, a different tooth arrangement (similar to that of a bandsaw) must be used. The saw is the handier tool to use when cutting stove-length wood.
The axe is more versatile and durable, but more dangerous than the saw. The replacement for broken handle can be fashioned with the head itself if necessary. The cutting edge can be maintained with locally-found natural stones. In comparison, a saw blade is quite fragile. Unless a blade breaks near the end, it can not be salvaged. A twisted or bent blade is impossible to use and difficult to straighten. If the set or tooth arrangement is disturbed, the saw cut becomes progressively more dished, causing such severe drag that it becomes impossible to pull the saw back and forth. Without the appropriate tools to maintain its edge a saw will have a limited periode of use.
A saw is easily trapped in its cut, a situation the experienced person knows how to avoid. A small axe can release the sawblade by chopping a tree.
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Thomas
If I remember right, he also said, that it is not that easy to sharpen a saw =)
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Originally Posted by Psycho
Good 'ol godfather Mors! :)
Good advice that says it all.
Doc.
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Originally Posted by OakAshandThorn
Cause you WANT ONE ! I bought a "light infantry belt axe" from Chas. Townsend & Son. It's a revolutionary war period small "tomahawk" I got the forged one,not the cast one. Now I want the cast one:rolleye: (reply to " tring to justify getting an axe)
nilo52
AWW JEZZ, I don't want to sound stupid but what exactly IS a "leuku" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by luresalive