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Best Timber Fallers Axe Ever!
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2015
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Hi Mr. Wranglerstar, I am a 14 year old kid who lives off a golf coarse in the suburbs of Illinois. The reason why I say this is because I am not the exact audience that your videos are targeted at, yet I enjoy them more than any other videos on CZcams. My family teases me about watching these videos but i can't help but watch them as soon as you post them. just the other day i was attempting to convince my parents to let me get a set of files to sharpen our shovels telling them "Mr. Wranglarstar says a good shovel is a sharp shovel." Anyways, I learn so much from your videos and i hope you continue to make them. i have been trying to get my siblings to watch them by showing them videos like your bit and brace v.s electric drill. they have yet to budge but i will keep trying.
Keep watching and learn every skill you can use, because it pays off for a lifetime. When I was 14 I studied engines, motorcycles, and machine tools. I later worked industrial maintenance, then enlisted in the Air Force and fixed fighters for 26 years. It was ALL fun, and the insane amount of money you can save may pay off your house early. It worked for me.
Son, you're on the right track. Learning about tools and woodskills is never a waste.
Just keep trying, you definitely have the right attitude...
Best of luck to you, Chuck in Michigan...
Saw this comment 4 years too late, should have joined the Boy Scouts, at 14 you'd be a perfect fit. I got my Eagle in 2012, and I'm sure I'm not the first to tell you that if you want to do bushcraft, hiking, fishing, canoeing, that's a great route to go down on, especially with stingy parents. Plus you learn a lot of life skills along the way. Now that you're 18-19, maybe you could volunteer. When I was in the troop, the most influential person that I ended up giving one of my eagle pins to was one of the adults there, Pat. I don't think he was a Boy Scout when he was young, I think he got into volunteering with the troop with a friend of his whose son was a part of it. He ended up teaching me many things that I use even today. You'd meet many good people there too. If you're still interested in the lifestyle, give it a thought :)
This person is now 18, and hopefully a logger! This is what kids should be like, but they only play video games...
Those axe heads are Dayton pattern. Michigan patterns have rounded poles.
Yo Cody, any updates on the beaver dam?
Your fellers axe is very similar to my favorite large single bit axe. Mine is 40+year old True Temper 4 # Michigan style axe, supposedly made from Swedish steel. It has been a wonderful axe. I think I paid about $20 for it in the early 1970’s. It has been through three handles, usually broken splitting big rounds of live oak. I lost it off my tractor and ran over it and put a crack through the eye about 25 years ago. Last year I had a friend MIG weld it for me, so restored it to its original fit and finish. I put a 31 ince does leg hickory handle in and painted it in its original red color. I have used it considerably in the past year, splitting wood, cutting oak roots and it is as good, now, as it ever was.
What's up with the beaver dam, tree house and beehive? I know you're almost in over your head on CZcams business, but I enjoyed each and every one of those videos.
So what level did you end up at after the class?
Love it! This an Old School Wranglerstar video!
I love the new videos. When is the update from the fellers class coming?
Thank you for the 1080p videos!
That is cool! You keep giving me ideas! I have a full size axe right now with a real small handle.... love it for splitting cured and smaller firewood.
Hi Cody
I just purchased a vintage Plumb axe a local fled market near my home in Tennessee
The head is also 28" and the weight is 3.5 lbs. with a curved fawn's foot handle.
I put a razor edge on the blade and am very pleased with this axe. The axe was very well hung when I purchased it with a beautiful color, aged hickory handle.
This axe is the perfect camp axe.
Keep up the great work. I very much enjoy your work.
The other day, I saw a 1960s era US forest service truck. It was in great condition as well. Such a beautiful vehicle.
Both appear to be Dayton patterns to me. Good work on the poll, personally I find starting with a Ball Peen hammer let's you save more of the steel, just wear ear protection if you try it. Metal cross wedges always make me cringe.
I have a Michigan style axe head very similar to that, but I just couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it. After watching this video I think I have finally settled on a plan for a handle! Thanks for the inspiration! Looks great!
Your balancing act made me go, "ahhhhhhhhhhh that's not a good idea", lol, but then I remembered you're a trained professional.
Got to love and appreciate a classic Wranglerstar Axe video.
Cracking video. I get a lot out of your uploads. I've been working with trees and wood a lot lately and have learned a lot from you.
Hey Cody, Great fallers axe you made. I hope to make some of my own axes in the future but still squiring things for now. I did my 212 class last year and opted to buy the Stihl Forester axe, it's been a beast, solid head reinforced top end with metal and solid handle. Had to knock the varnish off it but that was easy. Well thought I'd share. Really enjoy your videos!
Love these type of videos, Back to Basics!
Great vid love the tyre size you have written on your left hand
Last month I trapped my saw and had to have my good friend loose it for me. To be fair it was a long day, twenty odd dangerous or badly placed tree's removed. But I wasn't ashamed till I watched this video... lol
Cheers Cody, I really enjoyed that one... I think it's about time I grabbed that Gransfors I've been promising myself for a couple of years...
Mueller makes an axe with a nylon head made exclusively for hitting plastic felling wedges. It has a short straight handle. I've never seen one for sale in the US but was able to find one at an Australian logging supply site and had it shipped to the US.
I saw Husqvarna has some kind of magnesium wedges on their website. I wonder how they do compared to aluminium or plastic wedges.
Cody, what level of sawyer did you qualify for? Did you get what you wanted?
That looks like the exact profile of the PLUMB ax that I inherited from my great grandfather who was from Michigan, also I got a 26" prandi with a 3lb head that I got for work as my fallers axe
Speaking of class how did you do? Really that "fallers" axe is real close to what many of us use to carry in our 4x4s for years. You wanted a heavy head for cutting and a short handle so it would fit under the seat or strapped to the back of the seat like I did in my 67 and 72 Landcruisers.
Can't wait to see your future axe videos
I spent a year logging here in TN with the same gb..excellent tool!
Tuatahi work axe is the boss. They make most of the racing axes. Not cheap however. Restored an old race axe.5 pound head.Great axe with large tuatahi handle. I have and love small forest axe but love the big beast as I am 188cm tool and 102kg so sometimes it is nice to have a little heft.
Very nice axes. Thank you for this video.
Always great things to say, thanks for making videos!
Got it grinder then file it down just finished mine worked like a charm
The Safety Sally's are going nuts right now! I love it...
Learned a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing wisdom with the world.
More detail concerning the uses a falling axe.
Approaching the tree, the axe is used for "swamping out" or clearing obstacles from the escape path usually a 45degree angle from either side of the back cut. The chainsaw can be used for the larger stuff, but most fallers are reluctant to use their chisel chain if there is any chance of nicking a stone.
Second, removing the bark from the back cut. It is impossible to for the wedge to function properly on soft bark.
Third, knocking out the under cut wedge, and cleaning up the corners. At this time you can lay the axe in the undercut and sight along the head for the layout.
The plastic wedge is placed in the back cut as soon as possible to prevent sit back in case a wind gust hits, then wedge the tree over if needed.
Lastly knocking off dead limbs with the poll, and marking log lengths before bucking.
I forgot one of the most important uses for a fallers axe. As you approach the tree, you pinch the end off the handle and let the axe hang straight down, and use it for a plumb bob to check the lean of the tree. Just like using the axe for laying out, you have to know your axe.
I like it, I have a few axe heads I need to mount on handles, custom made handles out of hickory of course. You inspire me to get them done, 2 hrs each, I should be done in a day. :)
Oh, whatever happened to that dreadful Fiskars axe? Is it still on the homestead?
Love the axe and chainsaw videos. Thanks.
your video quality is awesome!!!
ALWAYS LOVE THESE AXE VIDEOS
Just noticed the tires size written on your hand... my old truck had similar sized tires. Great vid as always - love the axe vids. Its been a year since I started watching your videos, and over the summer when I was off school I restored a couple of axes. Thank you for showing me so much :)
+Muneeb Chaudhry thanks!
If I could have one axe of all Cody has made it would this one. I love this axe. I tries to make my own but had no luck finding a strait handle.
Great video! Always informative.
Cody, I'm a collector and you're pushing me to start collecting Axes & Hatchets. I'm so weak!!!!
Just for splitting fire wood would you recommend making wood wedges or buying plastic ones?
I was debating whether or not the SFA was worth it, but this video convinced me. thanks for the video.
Hi Cody, firstly, thank you for all these videos. I've learnt a lot and I'm sure there's still a lot you can teach me ! I've gathered a very old axe from my grandfather's farm. It was wedged in a post in the old barn. Only problem : the back has been welded with brass because of a crack in it. Do you think welding it or forge welding it would make it usable again ? (of course I'm also asking the great community ^^). Thanks in advance !
Pinches happen to everyone, and everyone over 50 years of woodcutting will forget to retension a chain after sharpening or getting out of a bad bind so it's no big deal to have it happen. Just like you say don't let it be seen or have a half dozen excuses ready. Great video as always, keep doing what you're doing.
i love your axe videos.
Where is the WRANGLERSTAR makers mark on this fine axe? I guess you really were rushed on this one. Thank you for all these fine videos. We need more people like you in America.
Hi Cody,
Firstly thank you for another great video. I have not seen a single video from you that I have not enjoyed and appreciated. I also have a GB small forest axe, and I have to agree they are a great tool. However recently I have wanted to cut bigger rounds of dead standing wood, and find I want something slightly bigger. so I have ordered a Husqvarna axe, which is the equivalent size to the GB Forest Axe. In Australia it is called Husqvarna Limbing Axe, I believe in the US the same axe is called the Multipurpose axe. Both of these axes sound like a similar size to the axe you review in this video. Have you, or would you, review this axe compared to the Husqvarna or the GB Forest axe? Just wondering. Thanks again for your awesome content.
I have an axe that is exactly the same visually, and it's an Elswell axe No.4, could possibly be the same?
this is one of the best channels on youtube
I gave you a thumbs up just because you worked in someone carrying an M60 Machine Gun. No one loves carrying the pig, but everyone loves it when you get it in service!
My wedge bangers are any one of my Boy’s axes. I have quite a few of them - Collins, True Temper and a Scandinavian Forest axe. If I need a fellers axe I grab my 50 year old 4# True Temper Dayton with a 31.5” handle. If I need a longer handle I have a new forged Collins 3.5#, with a 35” handle. I sharpened it, yesterday with my hockey pucks and wet stones. I put a good bevel on it.
What is the recommended handle length for a GB American Felling Axe and/or is there a rule of thumb to best determine this? I'm 5'9". The options are 31" or 35". Also, is a straight handle or curved handle preferred. Appreciate your videos.
you never did a "how to put a pin in an axe" video
Love your videos Cody!
do you have a recommendation for a felling axe
Hello Cody, I was wondering how you stamp letters into the steel (like you did with Jacks axe) and where the materials that you used are?
Good day, have you done an update on the head pinning with the roller pin? Super interested. Thanks!
Hey Cody what do you think about the Stihl Axes and hatchets? I saw some in my local Ace and was wondering what you thought. The metal handle guard at the base of the head looked interesting.
This is a great video Cody
Cody if you broke the handle on your small forest axe would you buy a new gransfors handle or make one?
Classic wranglerstar! Can't go wrong with old steel.
Looks nice! What exactly did you use to machine the poll to create the chamfer and flat rear? Those are some clean lines on the poll.
have you reviewed the trail boss from cold steel and if you have or did would you change any thing.
Cody I think you'd appreciate a 7lb Elwell on a 30" handle. Made for english oak but man would it cut fir and pine
Would be interested in seeing what you think about the brute forge bushman axe...
Is it just me, or is the sound a little softer than usual? Checked my volume settings and they're both maxed.
Great video sir
"quick and dirty", still very, very nice!! How did you place in the class? Or are you saving that spot of news for another vid?
Thanks, for another good video.
I love your videos so much more now.
What was that axe head at the end of the video?the one with the scallops. I have one like that that has “USM” 3 1/2 stamped on it. I think it’s a Collins.
Cody did you shape the handle or did you take a pre-shaped handle that you modified for length and width? Thanks
Love usin the back of your hand as a post it :) Get them tires. I have a Collins hatchet, that's rough and needs a new handle...Maybe we could work something out Wranglerstar.
Hey wranglerstar! Have you been to the Gränsfors Bruks Factory in Sweden before? If not i can probably answer some questions that you might not know about their axes. I took a daytrip to their factory and had a great guide who took us through the process of making a Gränsfors axe and was very specific.
Cheers!
Have you done a vid on the roll pin yet?
What are these mysterious letters on your hand *****? A secret timber framing formula? :)
Does anyone know what it's called when the scallops run the opposite direction
Would sometime like to hear about the fallers school !
Okay my great grandfather was a logger. I was out at his cabin the other day and I found one of his old axes. with a handle that broke and so there was like 3 inch handle on it. So I referbished it and I just went to the hard wear store and bought an axe handle. But my friend was saying that my axe was for wedges. And you could tell that is was a wedging axe bc the back of it was all dented up and the sides of it started to flare out. But my friend was saying that the handle on those axes should have a 19 inch handle. Can you tell me what a good handle length would be. I have have a normal 25 inch handle on it but I want it to look original so is that the right handle what do you thinks.
I just bought this same exact ax at a used tool shop down the road in my town for $15
I found that exact axe head in my creek it's a craftsman xxu or o and there's a star before and after craftsman unfortunately I can't find any info on it other than that
any tips for restoring my own vintage axes
Tell us some stories on why you just shouldn't let your chainsaw get stuck or let the chain fall off in front of fellow loggers? Do you lose reputation?
Im so curious.
I love this channel.🤠
Functionality over aesthetics every day of the week!
So, Cody, while I am sure the lion's share of us assume that you are now a certified faller, when are you going to confirm it and tell us what rank you were given etc.?
DocLarsen44 He's holding out on us, I tell ya.
function over fashion
Sorry I only just seen this video but I have a very similar or the same axe and that is an elwell 4 1/2 and it says that where you have ground off material. Sorry if I'm wrong but they look identical.
Harry
Cody have you gotten your grade from the fellers course yet?
have you tries a tuatahi axe made in new zealand competition racing axe???
Great video!
Pricing tires...funny how we all know that when we see the numbers....
OK, so i had a timber faller and little experience, it wasn't my timber faller but it was merely at my house, i believe my grandfather used to use it, though i'm surprised if he did (he's very weak at about 80 years old now) the only problem is the head is hardly sticking on the the handle, can someone reccommend some high quality glue to me?
Looking for new tires Cody:)?
Gago0512 I was thinking the same thing.
Gago0512 i looked it up too :P
Gago0512Truck tires to be true! 225 Millimeters wide 85% sidewall and a 16 inch rim! If you want to go with a wider tire but not a larger circumference you can also use a 235/80R16 or a 255/75R16. The 235/80 will be about 1 inch larger and the 255/75 almost the same in circumference!
If you have a 1/4 piece of brass pipe you can make a A good roll pin then use a punch to flair the ends when its in the head
Would you like to have A woodsman two bit Axe? I think you could do something nice with it.
Do you have a wedge review video?
Hi Cody. Could you elaborate on pounding stuff the poll of an axe. What applications are OK and what are detrimental for the health of your axe?
Don't hit metal if you care about your pull wood is ok cement will chip it don't put your axe in the dirt, you can sand a pull off but it will take weight and material from your axe
How heavy is the head on that axe? The length of the handle was given, but need to know the weight of the head. Thanks
My guess is 3 1/2 lbs.
He says 3 1/2 lbs at 7:22
Do you do commissions for axes? Of everyone I've seen, I would trust you the most to do so