We had 5 generations in our family who worked in the Collins factory. The plant closed in 1966.

Nice batch of heads. Look forward to seeing how they turn out. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing your cool collection with us 👍

You get awesome hauls! Love this vids bro! Keep up the hard work!

You've got some really nice stuff there bud!

How awesome. You have done a great work 👍👍

OM-GERSH!! DUDE! YOU ARE AN AXE MAGNET!! WOW! I'm DROOLING right now!This stuff gets me SO GIDDY! 🤪 Thanks for sharing! This is what my dreams are made of, no kidding!! So COOL! I'm excited FOR you!! 🪓🌲🪓🌲

Oh yeah, the Marshall Wells is a nice get for sure. Nice looking stamp there. Awesome channel, thanks for sharing. I started a new collection in late fall 2023, along with farming my own firewood from thrifted hardwood. Also began trading online a tiny bit. Keeping a few nice ones along the way. Right now, for me, "nice" is probably any axe worth about $50-100+ shipping online. Hopefully one day I can find some of these rare stamps.

Love the vids

Great video. Ive got alot of those half hatchets but ive never come across one with the backwards drifted eye. Interesting.

Man, I am a sucker for German axes! The Rheinland (along with those massive thick necked handles) gives me such a hardcore fizz 😂

I think the staining idea is a good one on the O.D. green handle .I've had good results doing similar on well worn handles that I lowered the bit on and they've come out great. But I like natural stain. Just personal choice. Coffee, tea, vinegar with steel wool...

I think the head of that axe is upside down, the top of the axe should be wider. I thought this was going to be boring but I really enjoyed it. I've handed up about 40 or so axes, I was about to learn a little more about stuff I have seen. I handled up a 4 lb Baker head as a wedge banger and it was awesome to learn that head might be 100 years old. Paint a green stripe up the head the width of the handle, leave the rest of the axe patina. Thanks for the videos.

That Germantown Kent pattern axe is in great shape. The Germantown line started in the late 1850’s and was bought out sometime around 1920 by Griffith tool works. They were Plumbs rival for many years having their factory located just a few blocks away. Their hammers and masonry tools were arguably superior to Plumb but being a much smaller company, weren’t as wide spread. I believe the Germantown name lived and was still used until the late 1970’s on tools made by Griffith tool works.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input man. I was way off!

That oval Craftsman hatchet is a good candidate for hammering. I like to hammer as much of the mushrooming back in as I can to remove as little steel as possible. Btw, Germantown tool works goes back to the 1880's or so. I think they closed in the late 50's or something. Those half hatchet heads might be a cast Marion tool co.

Green handle walnut wedge, walnut stain transition to head and maybe sand the very bottom of handle and stain also for balanced look? Great collection there!

I've got a old what I think is a shipwrights axe. It has "J S" and a octagonal hammer. Single bevel hewing. With the little notch in the bottom of the bit . I've cleaned it up and carved a handle. Works great

American Fork and Hoe also made Bayonets for the military.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

I didn't know that. Now I need to find one. Thanks for the input.

Thanks

The eye on a couple of those axes was smaller at the top then the bottom which means they won’t hold onto the handle as well. Is that the thing you were referencing?

Please don't discard heads with blown eyes, as a blacksmith i reforge them. Greetings from Victoria, Australia. Liz

Correct. It’s my understanding that rather than drive a drift through a solid piece of steel, the more primitive and less effective method was to wrap a piece of steel around a piece of steel in the shape of an axe eye and then forge weld a connection (which is what you are seeing as a crack).

@warthog02

6 ай бұрын

That forge weld must have been remarkably poor, a decent forge weld would not split that readily. It does look quite thin at the weld seam with not a lot of contact area which would definitely make for a poor weld.

but good video thanks it is really neat

My dad 2 buckets of tool heads that had no handles and I replaced all of them

The one with bevels I have one just like it but mine is embossed ken cutter

Hey old iron have you seen any fireman’s axes before because i have one. When I was little near we used to live by the farm there was a old steam factory inside was shut down for being unsafe so I was looking around I found a fireman’s axe in the glass container. I broke the glass and took it I used it for everything like chop wood old doors and bricks the old wooden handle charcoal paint and burnt.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

Yes sir, I've got a few from a decommissioned firetruck from my hometown. I don't come across them often though.

Is there a way to take the green painted wood off as a shaving and then salvage the paint with like paint thinner to reuse as a finish to blend your head fitting work?

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

Interesting concept. I have no idea if it's doable though. 🤔

Some of the carpenters hatchets have smaller tops like a finish axe does

Hate WD40 for that very reason. It happens every time.

do you sell any of the heads?

Dark stain to transition from the patina to the handle I think

Could the eyes be re-drifted on those, where it was put in the wrong way?

The one with the hardness stamp wasn’t cracked imo, looked like they may have forged it that way and what we see as a crack is their forge weld.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

I'll take another look. Pretty sure it goes all the way through into the eye.

you can also put more air in the wd40

@old_iron_axe_and_tool

6 ай бұрын

Never heard of it. How do you do it?

@zeeKxxL

6 ай бұрын

@@old_iron_axe_and_toolblow compressed air into it with a spray nozzle

That sure would have been a nice wedgebanger..i.was eyeballing that one (von?) that was all beat to crap

Axehaul lol

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The eye is bigger on the bottom