Workshop lesson 3: Axe: You can't look more serious than with an axe in your hands
If you ever find yourself on a deserted island after having a shipwreck in the middle of the ocean, you might just take a hatchet with you on your lifeboat. You can find it on the ship, just next to fire extinguisher. This tool could save your life and you can use it for many different things. So, let's talk about an axe!
What is an axe?
An axe is tool that is used to split, cut and shape wood, to harvest timber and as a weapon. It has two parts, the head and the haft or handle. The head of axe has a blade (bit) on one side and the butt (poll) on the other side, but there are also axes with two blades. There are many different types of axes, from a pickax to splitting maul. This little one is called the hatchet!
Humans used stone without any handle in stone age. First axe with handle dates from 6000 BC.
Axes as weapons
In history, axe is used as a tool for work and weapon of war. There are many types of that kind of axes, there are Native American's tomahawk, Chinese dagger - axe, trowing axe, battle axe... you all saw in movies an executor's axe, and different kinds of one - handed and two - handed war axes.
Axes as working tools
There are many ways to use different kinds of axes. You would need a big one to cut down a tree. You can split wood, cut wood, and if you would just have this little hatchet on the uninhabited island, it could be very helpful for making your new temporary home.
You can make spears from it, spears could be helpful in defense from wild beasts.
My other favorite axe is my splitting maul.
Hey Axel , can I borrow dumar? I need his muscle to split my fire wood with his axe.
An AXE is just dangerous in untrained hands, remember your swinging a lump of metal and you need skill to ensure it lands as you aimed for and not in your foot . . .
The ADAMAS 275 folding benchmade brand knife is the greatest cutting tool known to mankind, just unfold the locking blade, place it where you want to cut and strike it with a lump of wood.
BATTONING means using a solid wedge blade to land your cuts exactly as you desire, sure an axe cuts deeper and faster, but you must have the handling skills to make it cut where you wish to slash the wood
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We only need Dumar
He is train
He can do all the chopping up
@dumar002, your new name is axeman. You will fight the armies of darkness with your trusty rusty axe. I love the tools.
I use a 12 lb splitting maul
There is this man who has his barn filled with two thousand different axes and he makes comparisons about how different regions evolved their own designs according to need and obviously human preferences . . .
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