Just wanted to throw out another thing on this topic, though I know I'm a bit late on it. Just returned from a little camping trip down in the desert and up on the rim of the Guadalupes. I had one of those Cold Steel Trail Axes that seems to stay in my truck for lack of a better place to keep it. It a handy sized little poled hatchet that is well tempered. Problem is that it is set up for one of those tomahawk handles. If you try to pound a stake in with it, the head pops loose and slides down the handle to your hand. Give me a real half ax any day over these things. I prefer a handle that's wedged in at the top and can't slide down.
Fun trip. My fourteen month old daughter had a ball even though it got down around 36-38 degrees. Never thought my 14' pyramid tent that I lived out of for a year would ever be too small. However, the two of us, two dogs, a toddler, and a toddler's stuff pretty much filled it up. Anybody ever see a period high chair?...
Sean
David Scott <davmscot@???> wrote: Since the mountain men were trappers and needed to pound stakes, etc, I think a small hatchet with a large poll would be best, straight handle.
The squaw ax is hard to use as a hammer and some "pipe" type axes with a hammer, the hammer head is too small and splits tent stakes, etc.
Joel Vecchione wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Sean Kyle wrote:
> That 'Axes and Tomahawks' article was from the MFTQ 1979:15(1) 7-11 and
> it notes that among other things:
> ...
> 2) Chouteau and Co and AFC ordered 'cast steel axes' from Miles Standish
> in 1 1/2, 1 3/4, 2, 2 1/2, 3, 4, and 5 lb sizes in 1836 and 1839.
I mostly sit way back from the campfire and just listen, but have a
question. I do not have ready access to the article, and I seem to recall
the term "cast steel" being sometimes used synonymously with "fluid
steel", referring to a homogeneous steel as a material being produced by a
new process, but a) I cannot recall the date it was developed, and b) my
memory could be getting as bad as my knees are. Could the term "cast
steel" in the article have referred to the material from which the axes
were made rather than the process by which they were made?
Respectfully,
Joel Vecchione
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