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  @SheepDoggy68Күн бұрын

  I enjoy learning what the same (or similar) tools are called in various parts of the world. Where I grew up in the southern US the double sided blades (sharp on both sides) were called Kaiser Blades or Banks Blades or Ditch Bank Blades. Brush hooks were sharp on only one side and a brush ax was similar, but much heavier and had an actual ax handle. Council Tools makes a pretty decent KB in 2 sizes and several handle lengths. The handle style of a 3 or 4 bolt KB looks stronger and I’ve only broken one of them by taking them way outside their intended purpose.

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  @MattKeevilКүн бұрын

  A lot of confusing and regionally variable terms for this family of tools. Ochsenkopf makes a longer handled version that is probably more like a Kaiser blade, at least in intended use.

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  @SheepDoggy68Күн бұрын

  If you use the pick end of your pick mattocks to pry the rootball up as you cut and dig on it you will likely progress faster on your removal projects! The Cutter Mattocks is my favorite, but for a tree that size the Pick Mattocks would have been my choice!

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  @MattKeevil5 күн бұрын

  @urbanlumberjack just did a nice review of this axe and I think it's worth taking a look at because it appears that some of my concerns have been addressed, at least in his more recent example, which has a higher degree of hardness and more meat on the handle, and it came with a sheath. Those are great changes. His edge tested to somewhere close to 60HRC, which is really hard for an axe and he found the whole head is hardened and that is interesting for sure. That is something that will help the poll stand up to lots more tasks, which is neat.

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  @eduardopascal588226 күн бұрын

  traducir,al español

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  @andrewkrahn262928 күн бұрын

  That's a lot of buckthorn

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  @MattKeevil26 күн бұрын

  it sure is 😣 A couple of my recent videos show handles I made out of it, if you are interested in how that turned out.

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  @TomKimАй бұрын

  Nice job!!! It is a big tree….good to try and learn more. Anyway……best wood to use at the bottom.

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  @MattKeevil29 күн бұрын

  Yes, thanks. Hopefully I can make something cool from that wood

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  @herbertgearing1702Ай бұрын

  I always wondered about how an axe would act with the horizontal grain, because that is the way bows are made.

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  @AjaxykinsАй бұрын

  That wood grain looks absolutely beautiful! Lots of character to it.

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  @KevinsDisobedience2 ай бұрын

  I know most “woodsman” are not interested in tree ID, but I think this is vital for the community. Amazing to me that a hunter can sit in a tree all day and not know what he’s sitting in.

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  Thanks, this one was a deep cut. Maybe a little too deep, ha ha.

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  @KevinsDisobedience2 ай бұрын

  Good content, man.

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  @tedmartin54022 ай бұрын

  So good to see so many blokes getting into swinging axes.

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  Agreed!

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  @tedmartin54022 ай бұрын

  Good to see blokes swinging an axe.

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  @TheAnonymousSword2 ай бұрын

  I own several rinaldi axes and the Milano is by far my favourite pattern. When I think about taking a tomahawk out for bushcraft most of the time I take the milano. Also performs really nice on a 30 inch handle.

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  A 30 inch handle would be very interesting!

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  @bombsawaylemay7702 ай бұрын

  Nice work on the handle.

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  Thank you!

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  @neild7352 ай бұрын

  Well done, Matt! I made this style shaving horse and like you followed Roy's book (The Woodwright's Shop). That was forty years ago (!) when I was living in southern Oregon, and I used an Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) which I felled on our property. I cheated and used a chainsaw. :-) As I'm sure you'd agree, it's a big job but well worth it. It worked wonderfully and I got a great deal of use from it. I made some 10 foot wide gates from Douglas fir poles and used the horse to carve round tenons on the ends of the poles. It would have been very awkward indeed to try to thread poles of that length through the bodger style frame. Thanks for a great video, and best wishes ...

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  Thanks! I definitely agree, I've gotten a ton of use out of it already. It's my favourite project so far. I think that oak would be known as Garry Oak in Canada but I can only go by what the books I have call it, not being on the West Coast.

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  @neild7352 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil Yes, Garry Oak is the Canadian common name, same tree. My daughter lives on Vancouver Island near Sooke in what is considered part of the Garry Oak eco-system.

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  @brettbrown98142 ай бұрын

  Well researched and presented Matt!

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  Thanks brett!

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  @anhtieuphubungbu.92532 ай бұрын

  These chips kept flying into my phone and I had to replace the screen for the third time 🤣🤣🤣.

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  @MattKeevil2 ай бұрын

  😂

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  @incognitusmaximus21183 ай бұрын

  9:08 Damn close !

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Not as bad as it looks! I've had this conversation with other KZreadrs from the creator and viewer side and I think it's just something about some camera perspectives that tends to make safe placement look like close calls. In reality the axe went where I expected and my feet were in the position I intended.

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  @Codi_Clapper3 ай бұрын

  Great video and nice argument. I agree with the two-in-one tool mentality for the maul. Cool axe collection by the way. Thanks for sharing😎

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks, this is my yard sale collection: all cheap yard sale finds that see a lot of use!

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  @Brian2bears3 ай бұрын

  Very educational Mr. Matt. Well assembled and communicated also...

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks you! On rewatch, maybe I was a little defensive ha ha

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  @ItalskeSekery3 ай бұрын

  Great video as always Matt!

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks! Is there a similar distinction in Czech like maul/axe in English and spaltaxt/spalthammer in German?

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  @ItalskeSekery3 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil Yes, Czech: maul = kalač, Axe = sekera. (Splitting axe = Štípací sekera) :)

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  @ItalskeSekery3 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil italian: mazza spaccalegna (splitting maul), scure or ascia (axe) ascia da spacco (splitting axe)

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Glad it is not just English!

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  @gumboot653 ай бұрын

  Excellent video Matt 👍👍

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks Glen!

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  @Joey-L3 ай бұрын

  Very interested. It never occurred to me that a maul is actually a hammer !

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  It’s perhaps more obvious in German where it is called a spalthammer.

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  @tedmartin54023 ай бұрын

  Go the axe.

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  @williefick3 ай бұрын

  Well, I do have two 7lb Elwell rounding axes. So now I have an reason to use them. Till when do we have time to do this? Well done. Plenty wood you have now for projects.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  It would be cool to see rounding axes in. action!

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  @anhtieuphubungbu.92533 ай бұрын

  That's great, Matt! Looking at the two knee guards, I would think that you cut trees in a kneeling position, but that's not the case. Once again I have to praise you, great!

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  I thought I would kneel more too but the ground was uneven so it was easier to crouch

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  @anhtieuphubungbu.92533 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil By taking this challenge, which type of long-handle axe or short-handle axe , do you think is more effective?

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Probably long is better but a short handle would be interesting to try. This video shows a short handled axe that looks effective kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z59pzM-HYcutZ8Y.html

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  @Steve_G883 ай бұрын

  I think im going to have to give this a try.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  You should; it’s somehow quite satisfying.

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  @elemental4rce3 ай бұрын

  great articulation of the challenge idea. lovely example and starting point for discussion/progression, well done Matt.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks Owen!

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  @tedmartin54023 ай бұрын

  This is where accuracy is a must.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  For sure, although I am just lucky that I didn’t find a rock when I glanced the axe into the dirt!

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  @Running-with-skizers3 ай бұрын

  Great video Matt! Nice little mini challenge it completely eliminates the need for a saw definitly a good skill to learn

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Yes although if I ever get a proper old felling saw it would be interesting to try using that too.

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  @chriswasta77653 ай бұрын

  Matt, I'd say for a first attempt that your effort was a great success. Also the ash looks like good handle material to me. Thanks for your videos and best regards, Chris

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  I have to admit it's my second time trying something like this but I am saving the first job for a future video because it was more complicated and not the best way to introduce the challenge (and also I did it before the challenge was suggested). This trunk is actually somewhat knotty due to being kind of open grown in its youth but I have saved some pieces for future projects. I have made several axe handles from other Green Ash trees I have felled and a shave horse from a tree that was right beside this one. The handles and shave horse build have appeared in some of my previous videos.

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  @chriswasta77653 ай бұрын

  Matt, there is something special in making handles and other projects from wood on your own property that you have done all the processing on. Keep up the good work. Chris

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  @Joey-L3 ай бұрын

  I think I am going to have to try this challenge, although I will probably use a beater axe as I suspect the chances of putting your axe in the dirt are high. Love the historical footage !

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  The axe definitely went in the dirt a couple times! I think it would not have been as much of an issue if the root flare was wider,

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  @haraldkrahl6123 ай бұрын

  For us, felling close to the ground was and is common practice so as not to waste wood. Great links researched. 💪 Another note about Jean Marcel Gertsch and the XP65 ax. (but you probably already know this): The XP65 is an ax forged according to the old pattern. This type of ax was newly made for the restoration of Notre Dame because they wanted to rebuild Notre Dame as authentically as possible.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Cool I did not know that!

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  @KevinsDisobedience3 ай бұрын

  You tidied that up nice. Well done old chap. All you need is a pipe dangling out of your mouth and you’re all set.

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  @KevinsDisobedience3 ай бұрын

  This is a great idea.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Agreed!

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  @brettbrown98143 ай бұрын

  Good effort and great historical footage.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks, Ben Scott has a playlist with some of these videos on it so that is where I got most of them.

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  @Brian2bears3 ай бұрын

  Mr. Matt, I enjoyed the historical references. When Mr. Jarvis speaks, people listen. I need to get busy at this...great job sir...

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Yes indeed, thanks!

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  @user-qi4mx4ds2m3 ай бұрын

  I feel like this is the wrong axe for this type of felling but I’m not sure it just seems that way from the video footage

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Probably just my poor technique. There's several rather different styles that people seem to make work well, historically. Some have short handles, some long, some straight, some curved, some have long narrow bits (I have tried this and it does work well, a topic for an upcoming video) and some are heavy with wider bits. I've linked to several videos in the description and these examples include fairly diverse axes.

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  @DonKachot3 ай бұрын

  In Europe many traditional axe patterns have a narrow/slim bit and no poll to speak of compared to traditional american patterns because of this European way of felling trees. Narrow bits works nicely with lower diameter trees and they don't tend to glance as easily when used in the steep angle cutting close to the trunk (when cutting down toward the base in this low stump technique) as a bit with fatter cheeks would. The downward cutting also somewhat negated the need for the more balanced axe with the more pronounced poll desirable when cutting with more horizontal swings in the traditional american way. The narrower bit does tend to get stuck easier and does not throw chips as well as the american traditional axe pattern though. Note: in addition to the reasons listed by @MattKeevil another advantage to the low stump is the ease of which horses or horses+wagons/sleighs could be used in a cleared area to haul out timber due to low stumps.

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  @urbanlumberjack3 ай бұрын

  I’ve heard of the low stump technique being used primarily in England. It’s absolutely wild, from the historical texts, the old growth forests over there were cut by the time William the conqueror invaded in 1066. To protect the timber William enacted the forest law, basically the king owned all the timber. This is a great technique!

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  It probably sounds weird to Americans but the King owns (sort of) most of our timber since most of Canada is Crown land. 87% of my province of Ontario is Crown land, basically whatever isn't privately owned is property of the Crown.

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  @DonKachot3 ай бұрын

  Yes, very interesting ... in the Middle Ages and for hundreds of years forward in many (most?) european kingdoms the 'High Forest' (i.e. the big trees) belonged to the crown and peasants/citizens were allowed to let livestock graze in the forest and harvest the 'low forest' (i.e. the small trees). People being smart it let the way for coppiced woodlands where you never allowed the trees to get so big as they would befall to the king but instead they were felled, coppiced or pollarded and thus stayed within the size limit, where the people would benefit of its use for fuel, basket weaving, handles, wood tools/utensils etc.

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  @gumboot653 ай бұрын

  Most Excellent review Matt !!

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thank you kindly!

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  @johncrosley13 ай бұрын

  If you want to get rid of pitted rust concentrated hydrochloric acid does the job.

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the suggestion. Removing rust is not that difficult; dilute hydrochloric acid or the HCl in toilet cleaner or vinegar or commercial rust remover will all work but stripping it down to bare steel and causing more damage is not the goal.

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  @bushleague34724 ай бұрын

  For a long time I just used a Boys axe for everything, but I recently started bringing a Fiskars "chopping axe" with a 24" handle as well. I do my best ground splitting by striking between my feet. The shorter handle lets me stand right over the point of impact, keeping my feet safer, as well as lets me make a more powerful swing without the risk of nutting myself. Too, I think sticking the head bad while splitting is a big contributor to loose heads, and the Fiskars will take it .

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  @MattKeevil3 ай бұрын

  That sounds like a good system. Gotta watch those short handled axes (check out what happened to the Bluegrass Outdoors guy with the 24" Fiskars) but I can imagine it works great the way you're using it.

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  @bushleague34723 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil Yeah, it was given to me as a gift and it took almost a decade for me to find anything it was actually good for. I also use it like a pickaroon to cary blocks around, realy dont like using it for felling or splitting on a chopping block at all.

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  @CrimeVid4 ай бұрын

  A mate of mine had a first world war submarine chaser that was made of pitch pine on rock elm ribs, made for a short life , she lasted till the millennium !

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  @MattKeevil4 ай бұрын

  That’s really cool!

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  @CrimeVid4 ай бұрын

  That Bow saw has just about the right amount of rust,twist and general roughness, nearly perfect !

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  @haraldkrahl6124 ай бұрын

  Excellent video, Matt. First the Dutch elm disease and now the ash trees are suffering. I'm always happy when I can process elm wood, it's hard to come by. The handle turned out very well. Best regards Harald

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  @MattKeevil4 ай бұрын

  Thanks! Glad I can find a silver lining when the trees are dying but it’s still unfortunate. Just in the past year or two my province has recorded the first cases of oak wilt and hemlock woolly adelgid too ☹️

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  @DonKachot4 ай бұрын

  Idea: If you take off the axe head and let the handle soak in linseed oil it should swell up and the head should set a bit of lower on the handle when reattached.

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  @MattKeevil4 ай бұрын

  Thanks for the suggestion. It’s had some oil but oil does not swell wood to any meaningful degree. I could use glycol but don’t currently have some. A bit of hockey tape around the handle has worked well for me in the past as a stop gap.

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  @DonKachot4 ай бұрын

  @@MattKeevil Great👍 Mineral oil won't swell, but a hardening oil like linseed oil (and perhaps Tung oil) should swell up to 10% as it cures

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  @brettbrown98144 ай бұрын

  Pretty handy tools I think!

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  @MyName-tb9oz4 ай бұрын

  Huh. That's what children are for, isn't it?

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  @MattKeevil4 ай бұрын

  I think I’ve got a couple years before mine is ready to sling firewood

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  @Running-with-skizers4 ай бұрын

  I've really been thinking of investing in these I know my back will thank me hahaha

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  @MattKeevil4 ай бұрын

  They made a big difference for wrangling the bigger awkward pieces

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  @Joey-L4 ай бұрын

  definitely looks like a back-saver !