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 <jvecchio@???> 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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