Dad has one of the older versions of that we keep by the woodstove for splitting kindling when needed....works VERY well and has been down there as long as I can remember....except when I was 10 or 11 or so and I "borrowed" it to use when we would ride our bikes to a little wood lot and cut down trees to build a fort/shelter..we didn't really care that it wasn't an axe but for us it worked pretty well even