Seeing how far back i can go watching old Wranglestar.

@nicholasfernandez7720

6 жыл бұрын

same

@vincehathaway8748

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought was "Holy cow, he looks so young".

You get a thumbs up just for your stated rejection of a "throw away" society......

You just gave a young Ag teacher exactly what he needed. I've felt an overwhelming need to teach my kids the basics. The "basics" that our great grandfathers knew to be common knowledge. May God continue to bless you sir. Keep up the good work.

@lachlanmcintyre5748

10 ай бұрын

agreed

Watching these old videos are a blast, seeing how much better you got at everything in this video is great :)

@higherpower254

9 ай бұрын

Act accordingly

1 Axe and 1 sledge hammer have been reborn thanks to you. The axe head I found, the sledge head I bought for a dollar. Both are now my own and very nice tools. Axe is cheap, but the sledge is a vintage True Temper. Thanks Wranglerstar

Nice to see one of the older vids Cody, I actually had an accident when I was 18, using an axe for splitting wood, the head came off mid swing bounced back up and I now sport an inch and a half scar across the knuckle of my left hand. Lucky I didn't lose a finger. It put me off using axes for a long time but thanks to your channel I'm learning more everyday and putting it into practice. That axe that did the damage all those years ago sports a new handle and edge and has seen plenty of use since I've started watching your video's. Thank you for sharing

You have come a long way since gluing wedges and using powertools near an axe mr W :)

Knowing how to repair and maintain your own tools is a vastly underrated skill these days, and even the ability to distinguish good quality. You are performing a valuable service, and please keep up the good work. Thanks!

Just came across an ax head that needs a handle and this seems a good example to follow. Thanks for the words of wisdom that every man needs to hear at the end.

Wow, how much we have all learnt since you made this about setting an axe handle.

“Do all things to the glory of God”. Amen brother. Love your videos. You are a good workman that needeth not be ashamed!

watching ever single wranglerstar video over the next couple days... its pretty amazing seeing where you began and where you are now... thanks for the content.

recently i found an old kelly tools, falls city axe head. i am curently cleaning the head up. thanks for the videos on tools it has been a great help in bringing life back to this old axe.

I've been binge watching your axe videos for the past few days and I got to say how I love your frame of mind. You have some great videos and I'm saving them for when I need the information in the near future ;)

I've taken to looking up all of your videos Mr. W. because I've not seen them, and I find I enjoy them and learn from them just as much as your newer ones. Keep the faith and blessings to you and your family.

Hi Cody Over the past 45 years I've collected and sold quite a few Vintage axes of Plumb, True Temper Kelly, Bluegrass, Collins, Council Tool, etc. Of all the heads I've owned(over 150) the Plumbs, Collins, and Kelly I prized the most because of superior heat treatment and the history of America when we were making quality tools. However, my family is a Council Tool fan and I just use their axes with perfect satisfaction and razor sharp blades. The handles were a problem at first when purchased from local retailers who had no experience with axes. I started ordering from House Handle and Bowman Handles. Both are on the internet. I gained the ability to buy hand picked, white wood, and no varnish. Keep up the good work! Glenn Campbell

Great video and i love the morals you instill in yourself and your family, there's a lot that America could learn from a man like you, Merry Christmas

I put a new handle on my dad's axe that had been passed down from his father. All this using the info from your video. I'm 30 not some 15 year old but the pride in my fathers eyes were worth it. Thank you for your video.

I got 9 years of this channel to watch, NICE!

I have watched most of your videos on handling axes. Finally had the day to rehandle my own and I say it's been gone smooth from everything I've learned from your videos. This is definitely something I'm diving into and i am enjoying it a lot.

Great instructional video. I started replacing a handle just today, glad I stopped when I did because I learned some very good info here that I have never heard before. Thanks for your great, and clear presentation. My thoughts on your closing comments are spot on. Now, I'm looking forward to viewing more of your videos.

Thanks very much for this tutorial. I've just been given 2 hatchet heads by my father, one of which was given to him sometime around 1950 by his grandfather. Your comment about buying good tools and handing them down resonated with me for obvious reasons. Thanks again.

I appreciate the instructions on replacing the axe handle a lot. I could have lived without the sermon at the end. Thanks for passing this skill on.

Thanks for an excellent video. Here in Sweden, a country with a long tradition with axes as all know, there is also a special history as to how to find good axe handles and how to help/stimulate the trees to produce them. In local language it is called "svallved" which is wood that has healed and grown over a vertical crack in the bark of a stem. the cracks were either man made (planning at least 10-15 years ahead) or caused by lightning. These handles had a very suitable grain especially for tool handles and was very strong, had a suitable amount of flex and was long lasting.

Hello, Wranglerstar and family. I am a fairly new subscriber. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy the videos. I have been watching for about 3 weeks now and haven't seen a video I haven't liked. I especially enjoyed a particular moment when my roommate and I were at the local flea market, I was looking at ax handles and the small metal wedges. My roommate, who is a good ole country boy, asked me if I knew what I was looking at...When I was able to tell him exactly what those little pieces of metal were, he looked utterly astonished!!! I asked him if he was surprised and he said no but the look said it all!!! Oh, the pleasure I felt at that moment was truly sublime. The possibility that a girl could know what a tool was used for.... What I didn't tell him was where I learned it or when lol. We both watch your videos and we both love them! I appreciate you and your family sharing your time and talents and your spirituality (my favorite part) with the rest of us. And being able to answer when someone asks, "do you know what you are looking at" is absolutely priceless in my book! Thanks ;)

I was inspired by this video! I went up the street, got some supplies, and re-handled an old Plumb boy's axe that my wife's grandfather once owned. Looks and feels great. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, You are so right Many years ago when I was a young guy an elderly neighbor taught me how to re-place handles and it has been a joy to do these projects. I hope every one gets the importance of the boiled linseed oil and the steel wool.

Thanks for your videos. I did not follow your advice last fall, and handled an axe head with a Home Depot handle. It's flat and I had to sand off the finish. Recently I've handle a 3 1/2 lbs Collins New Jersey Baltimore style head and hickory handle from the hickory handle store. How very satisfying the end result is! I need to organize my garage, and do more like this. Keep the video coming, I really enjoy them.

Thank you. I watched several tutorials on putting in a new handle and this was the best. I appreciate your tips and procedures and I agree with your philosophies and views. God bless. Now, with axe handle in hand, I am out to the shop to install it.

Thanks to this great video and your others on sharpening, I put a new American-made hickory handle on an old, once-rusted U.S. Vaughn lath axe/hammer head I found and cleaned up. It will become part of my camp tool set. I'm very glad that in exchange of some time learning and working, I saved money and gave an old tool a second chance, instead of buying some cheap foreign axe.

I've rehandled three axes following your instructions (memory being a bit tattered, I always review your vid). You're clear, correct & thoughtful. Thanks.

Excellent explanation of a task that is nearly a lost art! I have my two hand hachets and an ax from my Dad and Grandfather and I need to replace a handle. Thanks! And I really appreciated your testimony at the end!

Thanks for this video. I plan to go back and check out a good many more of your older works.

Your the man !!! I love going back in time !! I wish there were more people like you !! Keep up the good work !

I keep looking up completely different topics and some how your videos keep coming up at the top. These are great videos man, keep it up!

Thanks for a very informative and inspiring video Cody, I just happened upon this video when looking for guidance on how to re-handle an axe. I'm going to handle my Father's old splitting axe later this week once I get the head cleaned up and sharpened. He hasn't 'handed it down' to me, but we have always shared tools and I used his before I had any of my own, so I like to look after them and restore the old ones where possible.

Truly appreciate how thoroughly you explained this process. I had a pretty good idea on how to do this being raised with a similar outlook and reasoning on life. There is great joy in bringing back something considered trash and being a good steward of what the Lord has given us. With your tutelage I was able to bring back an axe that had such high quality steel (Union Tool Company from Charleston, W VA) it will serve me another 40 years! Thank you! R. M. Savage

10 years....man it has been a fun journey with you , Cody....

Great instructional video , I have now subscribed , totally agree with you on our throw away society.We have lost the basic skills and knowledge .I am a Tradesman , and I have those skills and passing those skills down to my daughters ,I take pride in maintaining and keeping my tools at top notch , I am going out now , and replacing my splitting axe handle the proper way .Love your work .

Sir, Thank you for doing all this videos. They are of very high quality and really helpful to city folk like me trying to escape, learn, and get some land.

Straight up mate, thanks from australia! Just what i needed to see in crisp clear english, wishing you success in your endeavours.

Thankyou for your excellent Video AND your insight on doing ones best in all you do. IMO I found your comments refreshing. I wish more people followed your good example. Well done !

Excellent video. I personally own a Wetterlings small axe and can attest to the amazing capability of such a fine tool. Once again thank you for sharing the words of wisdom to all of us and sharing your faith in God openly. What a blessing to the KZread Channel. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

Great instructional video, very concise. The speech at the end was good too. I understand that you didn't intend to go into a speech, it just happened; but that makes it better. Because it was off the cuff and sincere.

@lindabingham5473

7 жыл бұрын

Grant Garrett

I liked your video. I found it while looking to replace a handle on a tamper. I used the principles to figure how to wedge a handle onto a tamper head. My head did not have a pin holding the handle. I cut a slot into an appropriate sized handle. I sanded the outer diameter like you did you make the axe handle fit. I put a wedge into the slot and banged the handle down into the open cavity of the head. The wedge expands and friction holds the handle in. Each time you tamp it reinforces it

You've changed your technique since this video was posted. I like the way you change the handles in more recent posts. Learning a lot from you. Kudos and God Bless.

secondly, you never bang the handle on the ground to seat the head. you hold the handle with the head hanging down toward the gorund, and you smack the end of the handle with a wooden mallet, or a rubber dead-blow hammer(my preference). this will pull the head onto the handle with each light blow. this will curl a slight amount of handle material, showing where and how much needs to be removed,

I'm 85 years old, my father use to make axe and hammer handles out of an old hickory limb shapping it with an old drawknife. I enjoy watching your pride in your work, excellent job on the axe handle :-)

Love this video... I'm currently handling several axes, mauls, hammers (sledge, 2lb, 6lb, 10lb, 20lb, & the monster 30lb), 4 ball ping, "The Great Divide" maul which was a gift from my grandfather as was many of these heads, double bladed axe, single, & 2 hatchets.. I'm half way thru & it has been an absolute joy. I share your opinions of the throw away culture & reject it entirely. I run a handy man, tree climbing/trimming Buisness & take pride in my work, my family, my home & garden & my tools. All American, German or Swedish in make, quality crafts that too many of have fallen by the wayside. On a more "mechanical" note, I am currently rebuilding an 066 Stihl chainsaw & there is a joy & peace I have found in running my own Buisness, working my own equipment, maintaining our land & animals that I could not imagine ever being without. Don't comment much on KZread, but felt this one necessary. Thank you for the video, I would have made costly mistakes without it..

My dad has an old axe that's really beat to hell that I found in his shed and for Father's Day I'm going to to refinish the head and hang a new handle for him. He chops wood for each winter but he's going to do it with a good axe this year! Thanks for the inspiration and all the help Cody.

@redrum6051

8 жыл бұрын

that is one awesome idea!

This is what instructional videos should be like. Extremely clear instruction. Well done!

good to have you back!

Great instruction thru out the video. Your message at the end really hit home, it was truly appreciated. I think it also applies to personal appearance. So often during these current times you see people dressed like they are homeless, this also applies to their hygiene. Thank you for all you do. LLTR

Put a new edge and a new handle on an old old axe today, and it looks great! Thanks for your knowledge!

Thumbs up. Love it when people pass on skills and techniques like this.

Great video. Great message. I'm gonna start watching the rest of these videos. Looking forward to getting this axe head seated too...Thank you!

Found this video entirely informative. I recently revived an old Plumb head onto a handle. Those little metal wedges are hard to find around by me. No one sells stuff anyone to "refurbish" anything. We live in a throwaway world. That old Plumb is a beautiful piece of steel too. Shaving sharp and tempered properly too. I'm pleased with myself! Thanks for this video!

garage sales...great idea! that felt like The New Yankee Workshop for axe care! great editing and well done. thx for the info!

Just a great video. Clearly covers what you need to do, look out for, and why.

Thank you for this! i am watching this is preparation for my first attempt at rescuing an axe for myself tomorrow. looking forward to meeting my new companion.

Started watching from the beginning. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS BROTHER.

THE BEST video I' ve ever seen on the subject !

thanks so much for this knowledge I was hoping to find something to help me replace the axe handle thats been lying around the house... this has been most helpful.

Great video! Fixed my axe. Thanks for the pep talk at 12:25 !

Cody, i love your vids, you try to teach us some good things. You are right to stop that throw away mentality!! Wish you all the best!!

Thanks wranglerstar! Yesterday I brought my dad's old axe back to life.

Thanks for the video; great information! I was just at Tractor Supply this afternoon, and they have a kit of the 1 wood wedge and the 2 metal wedges for about $1.50. Their handles are hickory, and do have a varnish on them, but it doesn't look like a very thick coat.

came for the axe, left with the apocalypse.

Hey. Super videos. Keep em coming, I enjoy them and find them very helpfull. Thanks for taking the time and showing that taking pride in things and make them last is something worth doing. Regards. T.Robertsen

Boy, your skills have certainly graduated from this axe head fitting. Not saying this is bad in any way. The is just a clearly developed craft in some of the later restorations. Thanks for these videos.

Thoroughly enjoyed mate, thanks!

I like your technique. I may try it next time. The way I was taught: I will often toss my axe head into the wood stove for a bit. Now...some of you will say this is a bad idea. There is a very fine balance. You want the axe head nice and hot, so it will expand. But just a little too hot and you can accidentally taper it. The heat causes the opening to expand, more than you would think. Try it one day. Mark where the cold fit lands on the handle. With a hot head, it will fit a good 1/2 inch lower. Its also just hot enough to scorch the tiny chips thag come off inside so they dont create any space between the handle and the joint. I then proceed pretty much like you described. You also want the head to cool off very slowly. Leave it right next to the hot stove, for about 30-45 min. Then somewhere in the house. Dont put it back outside in the cold until its completely cooled to the touch. Once the steel shrinks back onto the handle, that sucker is permanent! Thoughts?

Rock on Cory! You're definitely doing God's work. My journey through your videos has been amazing.

lot of respect to you sir i had just bought an ash hatchet handel and goin to take in all you had to say thank you

Awesome to see a devotion at the end!

Glad I found this. I have a Husqvarna GP axe, that I often take into the woods for winter trekking. However, the handle is 26" and too big for my sled. I am putting the head one a 20" wetterlings handle, and wasn't sure how to do it. This video really helped. I will have to drill out the old haft though, as the metal wedge is circular. I don't know if they use epoxy too-I hope not, as that may prove a little more difficult.

@wifighostcruiser9665

9 жыл бұрын

Lol ok I'm mad I was waiting for the punchline

Very nice. I've read about this, but it's great to see it in action.

Thanks Bro! Good instruction and some good theology!! Keep it going for sure!

Another great film, thanks from a Swede living not far from Gransfors!

Very informative. That's one thing I've always wondered how to do. Thanks for showing us.

I absolutely love these videos, if I could just work as putting axes together or sharpen or restore them I so would

awesome. learned something new such as what kind of axe head to look for and now I will fix my axe the right way. thanks again, good vid.

Bravo sir, I agree with your philosophy, instruction and theology keep it coming brother.

You are so right about what you said at the end of the video.

You have the Small forest axe too. I love my little Granfers. Great tutorial.

Love your videos and your channel! I have tried to reset my norlund hatchet a swedish military axe and an old collins axe head a few different times now. Every time I do they work loose. I tried to follow this video as best as I could but I did something wrong obviously. Only axe I have that hasnt worked loose yet is my marbles axe. I am at my wits end and tired of trying.

great video cody. thanks for teaching me how to do this.

what is the difference between boiled linseed oil and non-boiled?

I wrap a 1 1/2 to 2 inches of wire really tight to where the handle meets the axe head for extra protection then tape it , it dont matter how good a wood splitter you are that part does get shewed up after awhile from wood hitting it ...just thought I throw that in there...really like your vids and your outlook on life by the way...keep up the good work.

I really like your series. Ty

thirdly, once you seat and wedge the head to the handle, NEVER hit the handle or wedge with the ax head sitting in a vise or whatnot. you are hitting the handle in the exact way you DONT want it to go. you need to set the handle end on a wooden block on the ground and set the WOODEN and STEEL wedges.

I love it when you connect your life with the scripture! Keep up the great videos brother, I truly enjoy and appreciate them.

Nicely done 'how to' video and informational, plus food for thought at the end. Ethics for us all to try to live buy.

Very nice simply explanation. Great Job!

Love your videos man, you inspire me to drop off the grid

hey I'm from Sweden, and I have made an ax these films have helped me a lot

excellent video, very informative, and appreciate the message at the end, thanks you!!

that certainly made me think as most of your videos often do. I really enjoy your life lessons and scripture references. I found your link from Dave Canterbury's who is also another good man of faith. your channel and his have taught me many of the things I need to know to be able to pass them down to my infant son ne day. thanks

Hey Cody! Great vid, I love all of the restoration content on your channel. Do you have a place you'd recommend picking up replacement handles? All I've been able to find at my local hardware stores / Lowes are crummy True Temper handles with varnish and poor grain orientation. Thanks a lot!

Ground down and re handled a 4lb splitting maul just for the fun of it after watching this video. thanks for the continued good work on these videos.