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us Offline SteveC

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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #420 on: April 12, 2019, 10:45:49 PM
Nice axe cuz !    :like: :tu:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #421 on: April 12, 2019, 11:42:00 PM
It's your tool, Fuzzy, and you can play with it when ever you want.

But it looks like the Axe challenge will happen in October.

Gives you time to polish it up and make it the work of art it was meant to be.  :tu:

Yeah, need to give it a name too... like Killer or Nut-Job or something...


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #422 on: April 12, 2019, 11:42:22 PM
Nice axe cuz !    :like: :tu:

Cheers cuz!  :cheers:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #423 on: April 12, 2019, 11:44:06 PM
Are we missing anybody from the list? There are 13 votes for when the challenge should start, but we only have 11 Axemen on the list.......

1. Nix (hasn't decide which axe...)
2. Rapid Ray (needs a vacation axe)
3. RF52 (hasn't committed to the challenge, but will in a couple of days)
4. Borg (planning on a smallish axe)
5. Styx (most likely, if things haven't gone full-on 'berserker', and even then, perhaps.)
6. Greg 'Chopper' Jones (with a couple axes and a positive attitude.)
7. KBM3 (with an axe to be named later...)
8. Fuzzbucket (with a cobbled together midden relic)
9. 'Battle Axe' Barry Rowland
10. Noa Isumi (with multiple axes)
11. David
Damnit Jack! I thought I had commited to the challenge long ago, just haven't commited to an axe yet! :facepalm:

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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #424 on: April 12, 2019, 11:52:52 PM
Yeah, need to give it a name too... like Killer or Nut-Job or something...

Time for a " Name Fuzzy's axe"  thread     ;)


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #425 on: April 12, 2019, 11:58:57 PM
Time for a " Name Fuzzy's axe"  thread     ;)

I think your onto something there!  :2tu:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #426 on: April 13, 2019, 12:06:26 AM
Cool looking axe Fuzzy  :cheers: :like:
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #427 on: April 13, 2019, 12:06:46 AM
Axemen:

1. Nix (hasn't decide which axe...)
2. Rapid Ray (needs a vacation axe)
3. RF52 (hasn't committed to a specific axe)
4. Borg (planning on a smallish axe)
5. Styx (most likely, if things haven't gone full-on 'berserker', and even then, perhaps.)
6. Greg 'Chopper' Jones (with a couple axes and a positive attitude.)
7. KBM3 (with an axe to be named later...)
8. Fuzzbucket (with an axe to be named later)
9. 'Battle Axe' Barry Rowland
10. Noa Isumi (with multiple axes)
11. David


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #428 on: April 13, 2019, 12:09:23 AM
Nice list so far  :tu: :like:
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #429 on: April 13, 2019, 12:24:05 AM
 :iagree:

And nice looking hardware too  :tu:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #430 on: April 13, 2019, 12:35:07 AM
You're right Greg! :tu: :tu:
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #431 on: April 13, 2019, 12:51:05 AM
Axemen:

1. Nix (hasn't decide which axe...)
2. Rapid Ray (needs a vacation axe)
3. RF52 (hasn't committed to a specific axe)
4. Borg (planning on a smallish axe)
5. Styx (most likely, if things haven't gone full-on 'berserker', and even then, perhaps.)
6. Greg 'Chopper' Jones (with a couple axes and a positive attitude.)
7. KBM3 (with an axe to be named later...)
8. Fuzzbucket (with an axe to be named later)
9. 'Battle Axe' Barry Rowland
10. Noa Isumi (with multiple axes)
11. David
:cheers:

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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #432 on: April 14, 2019, 04:19:31 PM
are we there yet?
Solving problems you didn't know you had in the most obscure way possible

"And now, it's time to hand this over to our tame race axe driver. Some say, he can live in the forest for six months at a time without food, and he knows of a secret tribe of only women where he is their God. All we know is, he's call the Styx!" - TazzieRob


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #433 on: April 14, 2019, 04:21:09 PM
 :ahhh not yet!!!  :ahhh
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #434 on: April 14, 2019, 04:51:02 PM
I'm still searching for a challenge axe.......  :rofl:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #435 on: April 14, 2019, 04:56:21 PM
 :facepalm: :D
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #436 on: April 14, 2019, 09:46:48 PM
Has Fuzzy named his new axe yet?
What? Enablers! Are you serrrrious? Where? I dont see any.
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #437 on: April 14, 2019, 09:48:46 PM
12 1/8" Puget Sound 1946 Sager Chemical Axe.
What? Enablers! Are you serrrrious? Where? I dont see any.
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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #438 on: April 14, 2019, 09:50:13 PM
Has Fuzzy named his new axe yet?

Stevey suggested this...

Time for a " Name Fuzzy's axe"  thread     ;)

So might start a Name Fuzzy's Axe GAW thread sometime soon.  :2tu:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #439 on: April 14, 2019, 10:27:11 PM
You still have all your fingers then Fuzzy  :D
Yup all six on each hand.  :whistle:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #440 on: April 14, 2019, 10:29:23 PM
Yup all six on each hand.  :whistle:

Pfffttt... My genes are impeccable, I'll have you know.


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #441 on: April 14, 2019, 10:44:32 PM
Perhaps the more acute edge & blade geometry enables it to drive into the wood better? Facilitating a better wedging action?

I was chopping kindling with this today - which it's excellent at, probably the best axe I've used yet - I'm holding it less than halfway down the haft and it's slicing it up effortlessly... Anyway, I was thinking about what you said. I think the angle of the bit in relation to the handle has a lot to do with it - it's a bit of a morbit comparison, but it's very similar to a guillotine blade. 

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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #442 on: April 15, 2019, 12:35:45 AM
Ja, that's the angle I was looking at.  :tu:

Probably be good at limbing small branches as well. 


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #443 on: April 15, 2019, 12:36:36 AM
Nice axe, David!


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #444 on: April 15, 2019, 08:26:50 AM
I was chopping kindling with this today - which it's excellent at, probably the best axe I've used yet - I'm holding it less than halfway down the haft and it's slicing it up effortlessly... Anyway, I was thinking about what you said. I think the angle of the bit in relation to the handle has a lot to do with it - it's a bit of a morbit comparison, but it's very similar to a guillotine blade. 

(Image removed from quote.)

Check out Ben Smith on YouTube. He has a theory about straight handles and head geometry that sounds pretty good. He also highly recommends the Rinaldi axes. Very nice pick up


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #445 on: April 15, 2019, 11:31:40 AM
Check out Ben Smith on YouTube.
Not Ben Scott:think:


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #446 on: April 16, 2019, 01:58:51 AM


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #447 on: April 16, 2019, 08:48:45 AM
i'm quite preferential to Bon Scott
Solving problems you didn't know you had in the most obscure way possible

"And now, it's time to hand this over to our tame race axe driver. Some say, he can live in the forest for six months at a time without food, and he knows of a secret tribe of only women where he is their God. All we know is, he's call the Styx!" - TazzieRob


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #448 on: April 16, 2019, 11:35:06 AM
Check out Ben Smith on YouTube. He has a theory about straight handles and head geometry that sounds pretty good. He also highly recommends the Rinaldi axes. Very nice pick up

Sorry Tazzie, I meant to reply yesterday. Yes, I saw some of his videos not that long ago and thought they were quite considered and thoughtful, but I need to revisit them I think as I didn't spend nearly enough time watching them.

I also saw a video of a young American guy doing a review on a Rinaldi felling axe. At first I was thinking, oh here we go - sprog hasn't got a clue etc, etc... Then he started using it and he was smurfing outstanding with his technique and just general confidence in himself and with the axe. It's such a reassuring thing to see young people like that.


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Re: 30-day axe challenge
Reply #449 on: April 16, 2019, 11:46:25 AM
Yes, him  :facepalm: :oops:
I only know because the only thing a search for "Ben Smith axe" brought up was someone saying they mistakenly called him Ben Smith in their video.  :D


 

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