At this very moment, you can head over to Duluth Trading Co. and buy a Best Made American Felling Axe with an exquisitely decorated handle for $270. Those painted and varnished helves, elevating the ...

BERTHOUD, Colo. — Bent over a 14-foot-long ponderosa pine log, Peter Haney gripped a 19th-century broad ax and meticulously shaved small slices of wood from its right side. Haney’s green cloth chaps ...

Of all the tools found around the homestead, probably the most used and versatile is the lowly ax. No matter whether you need a tool for chopping, splitting, or hammering, the ax is the one that could ...

Before the days of sawmills, table saws and planers, you chopped away with a hewing ax if you wanted flat sides on round wood, says Wood magazine. In the hands of the skilled craftsman, this nearly ...

During my high-school and community-college years in western Michigan, I sold firewood to supplement my meager income from on-again, off-again construction work. I’d follow in the wake of commercial ...

The American Felling Ax — with a 3.3-pound head and 31- or 35-inch handle — is the largest Gransfors Bruks ax the store usually sells. Each is accompanied by a small publication, replete with ...

In this video, I'm going to show you a new axe I came across called the AX4 from a company called Beavercraft. They focus on wood working tools and make some high quality (if not pricey) products.

Perennial lumberjack contenders Arden Cogar Jr. and Mike Sullivan are bringing their Lumberjack Show of Champions to the main arena for the 67th annual Woodsmen Show. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p ...