Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's an old-fashioned, and you never thought you'd need to split wood gain. But home ownership comes for us all. Let's at least ...

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While a short, light hatchet is great for intricate tasks such as making kindling, carving, or clearing trails, nothing beats a long-handled axe for chopping logs into firewood. With its two-part ...

The steel head of my new hatchet was pounded out old-school style by a blacksmith in Sweden. His name is Mattias Mattsson, and beside a crown insignia stamped on the axe head, Mattsson marked his ...

The most innovative flip blade of 2025 may not be a knife; it may just be an axe. Columbia River Knife & Tool (CRKT) has bravely taken one of its most unique folding knife designs and adapted it into ...

Do you need an ax for modern life? I'd argue for a flexible interpretation of the word need here. You need an ax, or something in a similar category, for your soul. Thoreau would say that splitting ...