Before modern manufacturing and distribution systems, unique axe head shapes developed in the different regions of the USA. In about 1900 the axe makers association decided to organize the many hundreds of axe heads being manufactured and created a "Standard Chart of Axe Patterns". I wonder how many are left today.
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| Allan Klenman, Axe Makers of North America, Canada Whistle Punk Books.1990 |
Kinda like different screwdriver types. Everybody has to be different eh!
ReplyDeleteI sill can't believe my parents regularly let me head out into the woods with a felling ax when I was like 7 years old. Those were the good old days.
ReplyDeleteI had to smile at Dave's comment :-)
ReplyDeleteI just loved chopping logs with an axe at the same age, and they let me do it too...
What will my son think one day of his pre-teen years tearing around the surrouding villages on his tiny motorcycle ? "Good old days", I hope !
I found a nice not-too-big ash tree, sawed it up and let the kid split the pieces. That wood splits if you say "Boo!" to it, so he came home as pleased as punch at how manly he was. To this day he still will happily give the axe a few swings so i done good. :-)
ReplyDeleteGotta train 'em right.