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Or just strike accurately... :D

You'll probably want to make the striking surface meet the wedging surfaces at equal angles.

Yup, definitely go with the less steep angle.

In complicated felling situations, there have been a couple of times when I purposely sacrificed a plastic wedge to my saw to accomplish the task. Magnesium wedges are harder than aluminum, can take the pounding of really hard driving like aluminum cannot...and still be soft enough to not...

6 lbs.? Really? That's getting to be a bit too heavy, Sean...heck, you can buy splitting mauls that weigh 6 lbs. You need to be able to accelerate the head speed up there right fast, and also pack it through the brush all day. 5 lbs. I tell you, with a 24 to 26 inch symetrical handle!

Thank all the gods...crowded enough out here as it is :lol:.

I expect it actually is more a back woods faller vs. an urban/suburban tree cutter difference, Jonny. No common logger sets a pulling line while most arbos don't do precision felling with wedges. Different conditions, different solutions. West coast arbos may be more influenced by local...

Oh, everyone needs a "dirt" axe Steve. That's a specialized tool, just as legitimate as any other. What's wrongheaded is not differenciating betwen that axe and the other couple you need to have that are for other tasks. 8)

No, it's the law that within any federally mandated wilderness area no internal combustion engines may be used. Electric motors, too. And no wheeled conveance, like a mountain bike. I hear that even a wheeled game carrier is illegal, though I don't know that for a fact. Illegal to land a...

That head looks about right to me, Steve. I vote for a 5 pounder, though I have seen people get by with a 3 1/2...yours looks to be in that range. Like Jeff said, a shorter handle works best out in the brush, but for your work I'm sure that will do the job just fine. For using an axe to...

The Estwing is way too light for real wedge driving, Jonny. And a maul is just wrong, you need a cutting edge for parts of the task. But I've said all that before...you guys just go right on, using inferior tools and looking like you have no idea how to properly fall trees :D. I'm not sure...

Can't see your picture, Carl...what's your 4 lb. thumper look like?

Your reading comprehension needs some brushing up :D.

...does WesSpur not offer a proper faller's axe? I find this oversight a huge disapointment. Not that I need one myself, but almost everyone else here at the THouse is using some poor approximation of a real wedge driving, bark removing, stub bumping short handled heavy headed axe. Aside from...