Testing The Bizarre Russian AXE TOOL

they claim it's the one tool that can do everything well let's find out [Music] so this is a very interesting tool now this was sent to me by a subscriber some time back and I do apologize up front I can't remember who it was that synthesized set the letter aside and I I'm sorry so come forward and claim your prize if you were the one that sent this very interesting tool so what we have here is we have basically an out and ahs adze and oz with a couple of different interesting features it's got a nail puller in it and a Smasher or a waffle type of hammer now I looked around I had never seen anything like this before and I looked around online and I did find something and the best I can tell that this is probably something for maybe a soul and older Soviet design something to aid in carpentry where you could kind of grab it and do lots of different things you could use it as a nas of course a nail puller a pry bar lots of lots of different tasks so as it came to me it didn't have a handle and it but it has been sharpened someone took a lot of time and put a nice edge on it and kind of cleaned it up if I had to guess from what I what I saw online this is probably kind of maybe a little bit lower budget or a cast of the original maybe a replica if I had to guess because the original ones look like they were forged this one seems to be cast and I don't I just don't know you love just will have to try it out to find out so before we could test it we need a handle so I I went on the lathe and I put got a nice piece of hickory here and I created a nice handle for it that should serve us well today it's just a friction fit kind of like a Maddox and about I think that's about the right length it just seemed about right for me to be you know pretty a pretty useful tool so let me show you the project that we have today and we'll find out if indeed it is uh it's worth keeping around so every year I've got to replace probably about a half a dozen of these rails on our fences around the around the front of the property a lot of them get broken by snowplows is the snowplow goes by they fold the snow up over and the weight of snow crushes them down some of them just get old and rot the first few that I replaced I used a standing dead trees trees that had small trees that had died and they didn't last very long they were already pretty well dried out and I'd get a couple years I'm I'm gonna end up breaking so I found have had better luck with green trees so we're gonna go out here to the east and and we'll see if we could find a suitable candidate so this looks like a suitable candidate so this is a green tree on the East Stand and this is an area that we haven't really thinned out yet now people always get so upset when we cut down green trees but what's what we are doing is that where the trees are too thick we're still repairing the land from some pretty bad logging practices and to thin out these trees this tree here is not going to thrive because we've got huge mature trees we've got a very established canopy there's not a lot of sunlight coming down in and it's competing with those big trees which you just can't so if you thin them out it actually makes it better for everyone my grandad was a real confident woodsman and there were two tools that he would always have whenever we went hunting or went out into the forest and that was a small handsaw and a small hatchet he always said and and I agreed today that there's very little that you can accomplish with these two tools let's see how it how it works I do like working with an oz the thing with an oz it's so critical that's a lot of guys get wrong I've had some guys that have sent some to me that they've made and they get that angle wrong if it's too steep it doesn't seem to work well it's really important to have the right angle and the right length of handle or when you come down it doesn't it doesn't come into contact and does it bite properly pretty good for chopping off limbs of course it's a very weird angle for the side usually I like to cut my limbs off on the side like this and miss which it doesn't but I guess it's all trade-off if it were a normal accident you have to kind of it doesn't work as well on the top so it's fine one thing would be interesting is that is that you have to strip the bark off of here and it might be very effective at that can it be used to chop can you chop a pole with it I think you could let's try it and see I don't know how well that's going to be compared to a good hatchet not expecting this to be a very very good cutter I'm just is it serviceable is it can it be a replacement for we're not a replacement but could it work in the same role as a small hatchet or an axe are you sure I'll give it that so is it a replacement for an axe for chopping like this it's not but it works better than I thought it would actually it works a lot better the angle on this thing is really good I think I got the handle just right because when I come down it it is at a good angle it feels very natural takes big chunks ladies for your husband's one of these these little silky pocket saws be careful you get the right teeth they have a fine tooth which is more suited for pruning and they have a really ultra coarse tooth that's the best one for just for being in a pack or hunting or bushcrafting but this is mrs. deathly been my go-to saw I really like it what I was thinking about making this video today I was going to completely discount the design but you know what's actually it's not too bad as far as the design of it now the quality and workmanship that's a whole nother thing we'll talk about here in a minute but overall it's it's a pretty handy little thing to use so now we can cut our fence posts to length or we can go out into the forest and cut another tree because we didn't take a tape measure with us and we cut it too short just another opportunity for the good Lord to give me a lesson in patience and humility this one is way better than the other one anyway what are we thinking before we cut our Tenon's we'll have to cut it to length so what I'll typically do is hang it over the post about a now an inch inch and a quarter so then we'll go over and trim the other side the small side over here on the small end we'll do the same thing trim it to just a little bit of an overhang there now we're gonna try out our as as tool to see if we can cut a a decent two tenon with it let's try it on for size here looks good see how we did here see if we can get enough movement on that post oh that's a stiff one might be to trim it a bit let's see sometimes if you go down hammer it into position it might be you might need to trim that just a little bit you can always take away but you can't add we'll start small we'll just take a 5/16 or so off of there so what's my impression of this tool well in all honesty I didn't I I thought it was gonna be a total fail when I was kind of thinking about it this morning and I knew I had to dispense to fix and I thought well I'll try it and we'll see but it did a lot better than I thought it's it's a handy little thing to have around it's two if you need to pull some nails you needed to do some really rough carpentry I mean it does a lot of the things that it that a hammer would do I mean what I guess what it is is kind of a cross between a framing hammer and a small ax or a hatchet and so is it a viable tool is it something that you should have I don't know I'd rather have a hammer I'd rather have a hatchet or an axe just what typically I find with when you try to ask a tool to perform too many roles what it ends up doing is is none of them very well and that's my biggest gripe with the multi tools is kind of that same thing but not all is not all is well and as I suspect suspected it didn't hold up well let me show you what I'm talking about as I kind of expected this is what most likely is a cheap interpretation or kind of a ripoff of of the original forged tool that would have been probably high quality you can see there with the only thing that we did is we cut off a few branches and we did a little notching you don't know nothing that any ordinary hatchet shouldn't be able to handle with ease and the whole tool has failed it's a super poor quality some sort of a cast metal and as you know as we go as you see you know steel matters forging matters you can't just cast something and expect it to hold up like like a properly proper Forge tool so it's it's it's a it's useless this particular one here so I would say if you could find an older one maybe one of the forged ones that wasn't a cheap knockoff it's probably a pretty handy little tool something to keep in the truck and especially for doing rough carpentry roughy and carpentry it would be something I would use but as in its Curt in its current condition it's of no value it's um just go in the scrap pile but that's a that's what we got one last thing I want to give a shout out to uber subscriber Ken his lovely wife Sherry ken is turning 61 today now ken don't feel bad about getting old because what I hear is 61 is the new 41 so you've got that to look forward to so Ken and his wife have been a great blessing to our family and very supportive to the channel and we want you to know that we're thinking about you we wish you could have made it to the to the party but there will be I have no doubt that will will we will see you guys in the future soon Lord willing so happy birthday to Ken thank you for being such a blessing to my family and I hope you have a great day so thanks for watching guys and we'll see you on the next video [Music]

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Length: 12min 29sec (749 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 02 2018