Ash and hickory are the best wood species for a pickaxe or mattock with a wooden handle. These hardwoods are very strong and ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

The Grivel G1 mountaineering axe offers one of the best values for an ice axe that I’ve seen. It’s a simple, classic mountaineering axe with a steel head and above average pick, and an adze that ...

The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski. Pulaski combines combines an axe and an adze in one head. Wikipedia The Pulaski was ...

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Those who have gone to Pioneer Days at Fowler Park may have seen a small adze used to make wooden bowls. An adze is a tool used to shape, level and smooth wood to make a variety of items. A ...

I had reason recently to use my trusty Collins Axe axe/mattock to break ground for daylily plantings along the Assabet River Rail Trail. This is a handsome tool, what with a 36-inch-long fiberglass ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of forging a unique hewing axe/adze for Erik Grankvist. The video also features a visit to his cabin where he tests out the tool. #handforged #traditional #bla ...

Analysis of an axe that is more than 9,000 years old, found at Ireland's earliest burial site, in Co Limerick, has shed light on the ancient burial practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.