Beautiful and relaxing music/scenery. I love the craftsmanship and quality behind the Gränsfors Bruk as well, I'm glad I chose to buy it instead of the "rival" camp axe here in the USA, Council Tool. Hard to beat quality Swedish steel.

Enjoying your channel from Nicaragua. Keep strong, brother.

My dog would get crazy happy when he saw his backpack getting filled. He knew we’d be heading out for a while. We spent almost four months in 2005 in the northern Rockies traveling from one range to the next, spending a week or so on a trail, and then moving to the next range. It was a bucket-list trip.

My dog also keeps the skunks and bears from disturbing my sleep. 🐾

I enjoyed this video very much. I would prefer no music but that’s just me. I always have a hatchet or tomahawk when I’m in the wilds. Can’t count the number of times I had to clear the trail from a tree that blew down or fell from too much ice build up over winter. I mostly carry a traditional tomahawk, but sometimes carry a SOG Voodoo. It’s a tactical tomahawk but it is also a great hatchet. My favorite is one I made by putting the head of a SOG Voodoo Mini in the longer handle of a SOG Tactical. I’ve been going into the wilderness for over 60 years, but don’t get out as much as I would like these days. I like to live vicariously through videos such as yours. Thank you for this one. New subscriber here ✔️

I mainly use Fiskars x7 or n7 and this gränsfors outdoor axe, and fulltang beltknife like casström Lars fält. I have though that i would buy small forest axe also later this fall. Nice video!

Yes à axes the size you want my best it is 24 inches the head I cut to be like a Hudson Bay ax don’t need to have a price whit a name my I pay $1 it is a very good quality I bought the head because it had a broken corner so I was knowing the steel was a bit to much temper For minus 40 but summer and fall it is perfect in the north I also Cary a fix blade knife 4 inches blade stainless from 1952 the year I born living north center BC Canada I do not have any big knife better a small knife and a very small belt ax that I used to skin a moose

At the same size, but significantly less weight (and cost), you can take a saw with you, which is way safer to use as an impact tool like a hatchet. With a knife and some wedges you can do everything a hatchet can do for you and cutting down a small tree is easier and faster with a saw. To me, a hatchet is NOT a must-have. You are right, that a long handle with a small head is beneficial, due to the laws of physics, speed is more important than mass (weight). When starting a fire, I use to put down a layer of sticks with some space between them and place my tinder and kindling on top to enhance the draft of oxygen. NEVER use the cutting edge to strike a ferrorod, take a file and put a crisp 90° on the spine of your knife or the top edge of your hatchet (makes great wood-shavings as well). Don't follow the promotions of many 'bushcraft experts', throw away the ferrorod and buy a couple of BIC-lighters - they have a ferrorod as well ('flint'), together with a built-in striker (sparking wheel) AND some fuel to give you instant flame! Don't need tinder then.

Size matters

hi i always can two knives everday but when im out in the bush i take my gransfors small forest axe and a nordic edge carving hatchet. covers all bases. thanks

Tack för fina videon. Varför fanns det inga andra människor runt?

I picked one up last week, second hand, never used and half price. Im so pleased with it and its unbelievably sharp

I'm glad I found your channel. Great tips and examples. The only issue I have with my dog is the special food she eats. It needs to be frozen until use...

Another beautiful and calming video. You have gained a subscriber! I'm still hesitating between this axe and the Wildlife hatchet... the price is the same here. The head of the outdoor axe seems more for splitting and the wildlife more for chopping...

I like a small axe (Gransforce Bruks Wildlife Hatchet), a small knife (Mora Bushcraft Black), Silky Big Boy 2000 folding saw. With this combination I feel like I can do almost anything I need. I do always carry a Leatherman Surge as well. Sometimes depending on were I go, I will take my Cold Steel Special Forces Shovel instead of the hatchet.

You use an before a word that starts with a vowel. "An small" makes you sound illiterate.

I will probably sound like I bring too much but I carry a small hatchet the same size and length as you plus a fixed blade and a collapsible saw that’s my go to tools for processing wood of any size

" What are the benefits of a small axe"

Great video. Demo is worth a thousand words. I use my grandfathet's ancient hatchet. Thankyou.

A nice and calming video about a great axe

Great job mate love the work! I’m from Australia and I have a Gransfors small hatchet that works well. I use and prefer a Khukuri as a field knife. I back it with a belt knife and a SAK . The large huntsman. Keep the videos coming

I had a chocolate lab as a teenager Im a upland bird hunter and this lab would point like a pointer 😂 r.i.p bree

This is EXCELLENT! just a man & his dog, relaxing out in nature. Wonderful!!!

I have a Gransfors-Bruks small forest axe, and while I like it, I am thinking to also get something smaller like the one you have. Great video, I have subscribed. Watching from Toronto, Canada!

My wife’s girl friend gave here a rusty two pound head. I reshaped and sharpened the head and rehung it on a 19” handle. It’s very nice. But doesn’t have a name.

Smoothing it!

small axe with a good at carving knife is a great combo... in case you need a new handle :)

Food tastes better cooked over a fire!

That’s a great location! I wish I could take my dog. He’s too rambunctious for camping unfortunately…. I love my DD! I kind of have an obsession with setting up Adirondack style.

I like your video. If I'm camping I'll take an axe. If I'm hunting or packing light I bring a large knife that can handle splitting tinder and chopping.

I appreciate how you left that pause in starting at 9:36. This video is very calm and I like that.

I usually bring my Fiskars x10 axe or a Bahco Laplander saw, my Mora Garberg and a Gerber multitool. I like having options.

Thank you for the review. I’ll have to buy one.

Very nice video

a 1 inch auger drill bit makes piles and piles of shaving tinder in under 30 seconds. just engrave a drill bit socket hole into your axe, or get one with an eye ring opening that you can put any stick you find in the woods through.

Great video, thank you. What backpack do you use in the video?

I never saw your channel before today. Great job! You got a 👍 and a new subscriber. Keep em coming!

I just got an Esee Gibson axe. It’s only 10 inches tall. Very small! But it actually has taught me that smaller is very beneficial. I can throw it in my pack and go. It’s actually safer than a knife in some cases. Kind of teaches you practical applications and potential for your tools.

Smoothing it… excellent video!

Thanks for sharing David. I'll be coming to Sweden again myself in a few weeks.

Superfin video. Tack!

You doing great man!

So peaceful!❤

I use a 570g 34cm Spear & Jackson (local brand, not expensive) hatchet , Mora Companion, Victorinox Tourist. The video is a strong start. Axe handle length, axe weight? Specs help esp VS my local hardwood in Australia. GFB SFA isn’t that useful locally and it’s expensive i.e. AUD 290. Music while making coffee is OK. Skip the music when you speak.

A septuagenarian here…I carry the Gränsfors Outdoor Axe plus one of my 4 inch (100-102mm) fixed blade woodsman’s belt knives and a Victorianox Ranger 79 M as my cutting tool selection in my day hiking / overnight bag, belt and pocket. I’ve never been a fan of beating a good knife through a log to make kindling, that’s what a small hatchet is for. That’s how I roll… In my hunting kit, I swap out the Outdoor Axe for the Gränsfors Small Hatchet…so small, it fits in a pocket. Very handy and compact. I also carry a Victorianox Ranger 57 with the gut hook instead of the Ranger 79 M. There is no such thing as carrying too many blades…just saying.

Very good video, nice and calming to watch! 🙂

Nice video! Why the shitty music so loud?

i appreciate you showing the fire starting in its entirety. lots of youtubers will shorten it to the throw of sparks that gets it going and not the initial build up to it. showing that fire making isn’t always instant. it takes time and fiddling with as you’re making one. you’ve got my sub!

what steel is that axe does it have to be high hrc for it to be quality or is there sweet spot for axes like 57- 58?

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