In this video we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both aces and hatchets to help you decide which one or both may be right for your needs. Please like and subscribe!
Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in there on the widespread misuse of "hatchet" for "hand ax." The difference has nothing to do with weight or handle length. I know, I know -- I'm outnumbered, but I am just siding with the manufacturers of the golden era of axes. A quick look at any of the major manufacturers' and retailers' catalogs quickly shows that Collins, Plumb, Mann, Vaughan, Sears, etc -- all of them, classified small, one-hand axes as *axes*, not hatchets. Hatchets were grouped together separately as construction tools with ax-like blades. But the terms in common use seem always to have been confused. And etymologically, they're the same word (ax, "ash-SHAY"), one Germanic, the other French. But me? I like to preserve the distinction the manufacturers themselves, unanimously, made. And it has nothing to do with weight nor handle length.
20 hits with the axe vs 85 hits with the hatchet. . Great video, loved it
Very helpful.
Great info, I’m going to do some extreme silly things out in the wild lmao
I always take a hatchet. And sometimes both.
Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in there on the widespread misuse of "hatchet" for "hand ax." The difference has nothing to do with weight or handle length. I know, I know -- I'm outnumbered, but I am just siding with the manufacturers of the golden era of axes. A quick look at any of the major manufacturers' and retailers' catalogs quickly shows that Collins, Plumb, Mann, Vaughan, Sears, etc -- all of them, classified small, one-hand axes as *axes*, not hatchets. Hatchets were grouped together separately as construction tools with ax-like blades. But the terms in common use seem always to have been confused. And etymologically, they're the same word (ax, "ash-SHAY"), one Germanic, the other French. But me? I like to preserve the distinction the manufacturers themselves, unanimously, made. And it has nothing to do with weight nor handle length.