Chopping Wood with a Prandi Trentin Axe 1500g
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2022
- Been too long since I got a chance to spend a day cutting wood and try out a new axe very generously gifted to me.
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Aaaah!! Thanks a lot Ben, great to see you using that pattern, that's worth every customs problems I had 😂
Great stuff and tools.. Subscribed to your channel..
I was just looking at this axe the other day. The small poll and wide heavy bit are an interesting combination. Then it’s a slip fit. Very unique axe.
Nice to be out in the woods. Chopity chop chop… looks like a good spot 👍
Looks more like an axe for felling people to me
Great to have a property for chopping again:)
That's a monster size bit! Cool axe, good to see ya out in the bush again
Enjoyable video Ben. Thanks! Something intriguing about the ring of metal.
Thanks for letting me know about this video, Ben! I'm glad to see you have approved the axe, especially since I have practically the same one.
Great video pal.. can't beat a bit of graft with some sun on your back 🤙
It rings like a bell
Nice chopping. I agree that handle looked a little awkwardly long, but like you said an easy fix especially with the slip fit.
Nice day to cut wood
1:28 He sent stuff to the right Man then.
I remember when the poor people at Prandi sent Wranglestar 4 of their Axes for a Review. They clearly watched his channel closely and sent them in waxpaper and withouth any lacquer on the handles. After a few weeks he made a video and complained that these Axes became loose, but the trusty GB stayed tight. No wonder, it was summer and the handles got no oil (or paint, but who wants a slippery handle) from him. He says he oils his GBs every Month...
Yeah wranglestar is a biased af nutbar
@@benscottwoodchopper Agreed. I don't know why anyone would hold stock in anything he says. He couldn't even figure out how to use a machete. LOL
If you want a good review from him prepare to open your wallet and give him a bunch of free stuff. That pretty much sums up his entire channel.
It rings like a bell which I've not heard an axe do before. Likely due to the thin blade and the dry wood.
the ochsenkopf iltis axes and muellers do too
High hardness with a uniform steel grain structure. The wings might help it. Because of this, blacksmithing anvils also ring.
Very nice work.
There's some binding due to the thin blade profile. But it bites deep. Oh, and it sings also.
You seem more comfortable with the somewhat shorter handle.
I've had this axe for a couple years now. It's one of my favorite axes mostly because it kinda reminds me of an extra heavy and short Viking Dane axe.
I spent a lot of time customizing it and made a heavy leather mask for it. It's been gathering dust since I've found no practical use for it in my woods.
I only used it to drop a few hickory trees and spent more time trying to get it unstuck than actually chopping. It chops extremely deep in green hardwood because of its thin bit but it sticks too much to be useful for that. I didn't try it on deadwood because I figured I might take chunks out of the bit since its so thin. I've ruined a few axes like that over the years. I may try it for limbing next time I take out a tree to see how it works for that on hardwood. The handle is longer than I like to limb with so if it works good for that I may get another handle to shorten for it.
Great review!😊
I liked mine a lot better after cutting it back to 80cm/32". Its a great limbing axe or for debarking
Always been handy with a Prandi
So, you got a selection to try out? I hope the Prandi Talabot 700g is in there. It looks like it could be an ideal 'bushcraft' axe. But I've never seen it in action, or even seen it head on to check the cheeks. 'Calabria' or 'American' cheeks? It was you that got me into these Italian axes. But it's not so straight forward finding that ideal do-all one that's: tapered enough to not get stuck as often; oval eyed; not too heavy...
I subscribed to Mr Bald. Looks good.
Thanks for another straight forward, no-nonsense showing. Keep them coming!
I've
The other axe is a rinaldi 'racing axe' plus 2 very interesting billhooks
Handy for viking re-enactments. It's like a Danes axe
Yeah it is rather similar, i seen some originals at the royal armories in leeds and they were a bit smaller head with a bit longer handle
Looks like a great alternative to the Rinaldi', I liked the curved shape as opposed to the triangular style on the Rinaldi.
Rinaldi also make this trentino pattern, this might be easier to get hold of though
@@benscottwoodchopper Thanks, I might try and find one. As you said, it is good for limbing so would probably be quite handy in the coppice.
When the axe makes this noise upon hitting a branch, then we know its blade is thin! Boah, i really like thin blades, im so happy that we can still get them from the good Forges. (No Nordic ones in that Category ;), i like to tease the fanboys)
I forgot that Prandi makes this Form aswell, i wrongly tought only Rinaldi does.
How thick is the blade 40 mm from the edge, one measurement is fine to gauge the rest,but crudely.
Hi Ben. I noticed in one of your recent videos you were using a different Ox Head Maul to your earlier videos where you did a review on the Bavarian Style Ox Head you own.
I wondered if you could do a review on the most recent Ox Head you were using? You were using it alongside the Granfors Maul. I was thinking about getting one as thought it might be a good all rounder when I didn’t want to use a maul. Am hoping it would be good on a variety of timbers.
Your thoughts would be most appreciated.
Regards, Ben.
Hey Ben,
I marked the Centre of Mass (more like line of mass..., along the Handle with a Doughroller, not with the String Method) on my Axes (800, 900, 1000, 1070 g head mass) and they are all 20-30 mm under the Edge-end. The Handles are ~650-700 mm and 500-600 g.
Does any Centre of Mass of your Axes touch the Edge-end or even extend into it? I guess it does on your heavy Racing Axes?
Im making some drawings of Axe heads that have the CoM as far upwards as possible, just for fun.
Long handle aside, it looks like a great coppicing axe. I gotta give Prandi a shot. Do you have a recommendation for the kind of work I do?
You might like the trentin but in a lighter wieght
Hey Ben, been watching your videos and about to purchase my first axe, was going to take your suggestion of getting a Council Tools Boys Axe since I'm in the US. Just curious if you think the 24" or the 28" would be better, want to practice a little bit of everything with it, bushcraft, felling, limbing, etc. And I'm 6'3" if you think that would make a difference. Appreciate you, keep up the videos, they have been extremely helpful!
Definitely get the 28"
@@benscottwoodchopper Appreciate you, ordering it now :)
What's the alloy and the hardness after temper of the cutting portion of the blade? During this video how many times did you resharpen?
Do you recommend this for dead dry wood?? and what about rinaldi axes for dry dead wood?
Yes to both
How do I get a video to you some good ax work.
Easiest is upload on youtube as unlisted and then send the link
Just bought one. How do you keep it from embedding itself? Mine goes like 4 inches deep, and needs to be smacked out with a piece of wood.
Use less power and good cutting pattern helps keep the bit free
@@benscottwoodchopper Thank you.
ringing ??why do they ring ?
Ive found super thin axes just do
Complimenti per il tuo canale, sei una persona in gamba, i commenti poco edificanti fatti da gente che non mai visto e usato attrzzi da taglio.