Evil forces have been a few steps ahead of AS site administrators for some time. By the time site admin plug one hole, a few more have been opened up. That said, not all of it is down to wrong-doers. A wee bit of gear failure, a dollop of incompetence, and perhaps a dash of poor advice in the mix too. But good on the site admin for keeping on keeping on.some old book said:
I posted this few year ago.. here it is again for the guys that didn't get it..Cheers 
i am once or more a week all day on friday
Who me? going off my pic's? nah only thing I send home to its maker are ferals and the neighbours dogs...That big old Tawny frogmouth in my pics has been getting moths off my verandah for years...I may have left the back door open one night many moons ago and he run amok inside I awoke to all the commotion thinking what the hell is in here? and out to get me!... for a few minutes that night I believed in vampires! hahaha.......
I bought the shorter version a year back. Same thoughts, good for pounding wedges and being a bit smaller the kids/gf could use it.
Has anyone else tried the husky axes out? I got a hold of one a week ago and been putting it through the paces. They are similar to the fiskars with a fiber reinforced plastic handle. It does swing nicely and no vibration in the handle when you hit with it. I have split some iron bark with it and it does the job very well. Had a few chops with it answered it does the job. The one thing that I do like with this is the flat back on the head for hitting wedges, it doesn't stuff up the alloy wedges we use for falling trees like the fiskars do and once you find the sweet spot for hitting wedges it does drive them in. We have been abusing this one at work all week and still haven't broken the handle. So far it is getting the thumbs up from our crew.
Nice few Spotted Gums and maybe a debarked red ironbark in the background? looks to have been growing in hard going with the lack of sapwood on the gum would be nice timber to mill slower growing always is...
Has anyone else tried the husky axes out? I got a hold of one a week ago and been putting it through the paces. They are similar to the fiskars with a fiber reinforced plastic handle. It does swing nicely and no vibration in the handle when you hit with it. I have split some iron bark with it and it does the job very well. Had a few chops with it answered it does the job. The one thing that I do like with this is the flat back on the head for hitting wedges, it doesn't stuff up the alloy wedges we use for falling trees like the fiskars do and once you find the sweet spot for hitting wedges it does drive them in. We have been abusing this one at work all week and still haven't broken the handle. So far it is getting the thumbs up from our crew.
Has anyone else tried the husky axes out? I got a hold of one a week ago and been putting it through the paces. They are similar to the fiskars with a fiber reinforced plastic handle. It does swing nicely and no vibration in the handle when you hit with it. I have split some iron bark with it and it does the job very well. Had a few chops with it answered it does the job. The one thing that I do like with this is the flat back on the head for hitting wedges, it doesn't stuff up the alloy wedges we use for falling trees like the fiskars do and once you find the sweet spot for hitting wedges it does drive them in. We have been abusing this one at work all week and still haven't broken the handle. So far it is getting the thumbs up from our crew.
I've got 4 others...Well if I ever find a stash of NOS 200's I'll let you know
I've got 4 others...
They must have had some they couldn't give away with there saws
Has anyone else tried the husky axes out? I got a hold of one a week ago and been putting it through the paces. They are similar to the fiskars with a fiber reinforced plastic handle. It does swing nicely and no vibration in the handle when you hit with it. I have split some iron bark with it and it does the job very well. Had a few chops with it answered it does the job. The one thing that I do like with this is the flat back on the head for hitting wedges, it doesn't stuff up the alloy wedges we use for falling trees like the fiskars do and once you find the sweet spot for hitting wedges it does drive them in. We have been abusing this one at work all week and still haven't broken the handle. So far it is getting the thumbs up from our crew.
, I spoke with our hands on product trainer today about the new style Stihl ones coming out next month and they have an even better balance point then either the fiskars or husky one. Was going to try his but already had 3 pints of double hopped IPA so I thought using splitting tools wasn't the best idea. Will let you know how it goes when I get one. I first got a fiskars x27 being 6'4"+ the extra handle length helped, then the distributor started selling helko splitters too so I got one too and even though having the shorter handle I actually use it more. Only thing is the head doesn't go through to the back so no hitting in wedges with it
