dble bit axe question

[JohnL]

On double bit axes, is one side ground/shaped different than the other, and for what reason?

john

 

[Lumberjack]

On regular axes (not comp) both heads are equal or symetric. Some may re/grind them to fit a particular need, but I aint sure what that need would be.

Carl

 

[wiley_p]

An old style that's still in practice to this day , probably some hard learned Skandic idea(often the best) is to sharpen one side finer for chopping notches frozen moose/caribou and have the other side sharpened at a steeper angle for the splitting of birch and spruce when it's -40 and you just got unstuck from the overflow on a crossing you know you should'nt have done before the dang Sno-go sank.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

That's what I've heard, one side super sharp for cross grain chopping, one less sharp for splitting allong the grain.

There is no real happy medium betwixed the two.

 

[treeslayer]

One side is sharper for loping off limbs, and the other for cutting bigger diameter wood without getting stuck. also useful for felling, first hit with the blunter edge, second hit to cut out the chunk. then repeat.

 

[ArtB]

What granpappy always told us was that one side onlt got swung at clear wood, the other side at wood on the ground where it could get chipped.