Kaveman
Treehouser
Bucky is pushing on 17 years old, maybe more. Haven't worn through the plastic yet... it's not perfect, but I don't need something sophisticated to do as simple a job as a wedge pounder. I can and have done it with a framing hammer, 2lbs sledge, handy rocks, etc.
Bucky is guilt free. If i decide to throw it to the next tree and miss, and it goes sailing an extra 30 ft, well, no harm but 60 extra feet of walking. If some fool steals it out of the truck, jokes on them, it's no splitter, or camp axe. If, by chance, I leave it in the bush, never to be seen again, so be it, Bucky gave good service for many years, i got my money's worth.
Bucky is fearless, ever ready to leap head first into a hole full of tangled roots, hacking away with nary a care about rocks, shovels, backhoe buckets, she clears the way with out flinching!
Strangely, despite intentional misuse of the axe for some years, I've yet to noticeably damage the blade further than my wife on that one afternoon so long ago... I think she may have hit a concrete form spike, as I found one with suspicious bright spots on it a few days later, laying near her splitting block, and have no idea where such a short form stake would have come from.
Anywho, I'm not carving a statue, I'm making a tree fall down. Also, she's not useless for splitting, she sucks because Bucky is camp axe sized, so she lacks the length and weight to do good work splitting, when compared to larger tools.
I've never had to re-wedge the head, it's never come loose, its a maintenance free tool, my other axes are not. Be it occasional sanding, oiling(or whathaveyou), or snugging up the head, wood hafted tools require some care, both to keep ready for work, and whilst working. Bucky has proven impervious to overstrike, my fancy Swedish splitter, has not, despite having a guard.
That's a 190-sum-euro splitter from Gransforce Bruk (or how ever you spell that Swedish axe company's name, stig has corrected me before) or as KV calls it the Grandpa Brook's. Anywho, I'm not sure how to go about repairing that to my satisfaction. Bucky, to reiterate, has proven impervious to overstrike for nearly two decades. It's been run over by truck and tractor.
Its had the entire handle filled with water and frozen solid, something Uncle Dave from Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, warned me about, claiming that to be the cause of death of his favorite Gerber hatchet. It wasn't intentional, I'd left it in a stump in the bush, and when we got back to the cut two weeks later, that's how I found it, handle up, full, frozen. Rather than busting like a pipe, Bucky hung on fine, and a few swings at the stump she'd been in broke the ice loose and I got to work.
Anyway, I'm gonna stop rambling about a favorite tool, and move on with life lolz.
Bucky is guilt free. If i decide to throw it to the next tree and miss, and it goes sailing an extra 30 ft, well, no harm but 60 extra feet of walking. If some fool steals it out of the truck, jokes on them, it's no splitter, or camp axe. If, by chance, I leave it in the bush, never to be seen again, so be it, Bucky gave good service for many years, i got my money's worth.
Bucky is fearless, ever ready to leap head first into a hole full of tangled roots, hacking away with nary a care about rocks, shovels, backhoe buckets, she clears the way with out flinching!
Strangely, despite intentional misuse of the axe for some years, I've yet to noticeably damage the blade further than my wife on that one afternoon so long ago... I think she may have hit a concrete form spike, as I found one with suspicious bright spots on it a few days later, laying near her splitting block, and have no idea where such a short form stake would have come from.
Anywho, I'm not carving a statue, I'm making a tree fall down. Also, she's not useless for splitting, she sucks because Bucky is camp axe sized, so she lacks the length and weight to do good work splitting, when compared to larger tools.
I've never had to re-wedge the head, it's never come loose, its a maintenance free tool, my other axes are not. Be it occasional sanding, oiling(or whathaveyou), or snugging up the head, wood hafted tools require some care, both to keep ready for work, and whilst working. Bucky has proven impervious to overstrike, my fancy Swedish splitter, has not, despite having a guard.
That's a 190-sum-euro splitter from Gransforce Bruk (or how ever you spell that Swedish axe company's name, stig has corrected me before) or as KV calls it the Grandpa Brook's. Anywho, I'm not sure how to go about repairing that to my satisfaction. Bucky, to reiterate, has proven impervious to overstrike for nearly two decades. It's been run over by truck and tractor.
Its had the entire handle filled with water and frozen solid, something Uncle Dave from Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, warned me about, claiming that to be the cause of death of his favorite Gerber hatchet. It wasn't intentional, I'd left it in a stump in the bush, and when we got back to the cut two weeks later, that's how I found it, handle up, full, frozen. Rather than busting like a pipe, Bucky hung on fine, and a few swings at the stump she'd been in broke the ice loose and I got to work.
Anyway, I'm gonna stop rambling about a favorite tool, and move on with life lolz.
