Identifying axe types with Craig Roost 

Old time ‘bushlers’ or timber fallers, did not call it ‘Felling’. It’s “falling’. The reason for a double bitted ax is that each flat face and apposing bevel is reversed from one head to the other, so that when chopping a face or notch, the axe is flipped from side to side so that the flat face is always closest to the cut shoulder. The flat face does the cutting, and the bevel ‘pops’ or wedges the cut chip out. Any faller worth his salt could cut a face in an old growth or redwood with the cut as smooth as a dinner plate. If cut marks showed, it was called ‘beavering’. I grew up in logging camps 60 years ago in SE Alaska with guys that had been falling timber since the 1920’s. They could do things with axes you wouldn’t believe unless you saw it.

Time for a compliment. Most things that people say about foresters and forestry just tightens my jaws. I have been a certified timber cruiser. But I like your brief description of timber cruising. Thank you. Michael Dougfir.

Outstanding video and thanks for information that has become so hard to obtain these days! Love how Dave just strolls through the background too. :) Thanks for a much needed video!

Those axe sheathes and shoulder straps always make me chuckle.

Your knowledge is amazing!! I'm a vice guy....I have rebuilt...not restored, but rebuilt, a nice older Hollands vice....fun.

Great Video. Good information for newbies to the Axe Realm. Grassy Park, Vintage Axes and good people 👍🇺🇸

The 2 1/2 lb elwell is a Kent pattern and is a very common old style axe in the UK . The 6 lb is a coal miners axe and would have a very short curved handle for confined spaces, the numbers on it are probably the miners pit check number.

Right on... thanks for sharing your expertise... now I need to get one of those back carries.. where was this stuff when I was young and lived by the axe to heat my houses or on wildland trips?? Enjoyed your presentation... Dun in Colorado

I know now that the axe that I have is a small tree felling tree axe. Thanks for the info. Just found one and polished to a high mirror finish and had about 40 hours to my great satisfaction.🇨🇦👍

Now I know what those raised cheeks on my axe is about. G'day all from Australia where I'm chopping and burning Jarrah and Ironbark, damn hard wood

Hey thanks man for another excellent video. Craig Roost is a good man!

I recently started looking into some bigger axes, super informative video!

wow, AWESOME and informtive Video, thanks a lot !!! Cheers Erik

You are now a official Rock Star Rooster!

😁 “Phantom bevels” ....I thought they were there just for style all my life. Awesome 👍🏽

That was very informative. I learned some good info, esp. about double headed axes. Thanks for putting that out!

Interesting. There is a wonderful video somewhere on the tube of a woodsman using a bearded side-axe to create near-perfect straight planks from rough-hewn timber.

I joined axe junkies years ago and was kicked out with no warning and no explanation I still have no idea why.

Thank you for the knowledge

as of today there are almost 58K member rather than 16K mentioned in this video

Sweet! I learned something! Special thanks to Jesus Christ! I love it!

I swing a double only way to fly I dull one side then the next sharpen repeat.

Good collection,good vid. Just want to say the "big felling axe" you show after the elwell is a Welsh miners Axe by Cornelius and whitehouse,I have got one myself with the stumps and it is 7 lbs, thought I share that with you

Thanks for putting this together! Nice job!

On the first table you showed there was a red tipped handle felling axe with what looked like a 4 1/2 pound head....i was recently gifted one similar...made in Sweden Hults Bruk 32inch handle and is 4 1/2 pound head as well...im really having a hard time finding if it was an Arvika or a Tassie patterned axe...and everywhere I've looked I can't seem to find the model name...could you suggest where I can find out what model axe I have? Anywho great info you share in this video! Look forward to hearing back from you when you get a moment! Cheers, Kimmers and Jerbs 👍🏼🇺🇸🔥🔪🔥🇨🇦👍🏼

Excellent video. And @19:43 Dave Canterbury walks in...lol

It's a WELSH miners axe. Hardened pole, for pit props and such like. Numbered because the mines had alot of them.

Thanks for sharing yoir ac heads and knowledge

Nice video. I have a question that you may be able to confirm for me. I have a heavy hatchet with raised metal letters welded to the backside of the head. I believe this was used to mark wood with ie sign a log on a blazed patch. Have you ever seen one of these? Is this what it was used for?

07:30 Why would the limbing axe not have a longer blade? In my area (alps) where the majority is softwood (spruce, larch and pine we have) the edge lenghts were from 150mm-220mm but only for limbing axes. (5,9-8,8 inch)

Which axe is best for splitting (already felled and cut to 16”) Red Oak for firewood?

Collins Legitumus Axe is the best

great vid! im really getting into this hobby. is there a website/group besides the FB group I could check out to find like minded people in my area? do you know if there is an event like Axetravaganza on the west coast? thanks

Dave passes by at 19:45

That cruiser double bit looked like it could do work. 2.25 lb double

I have two hachets one has a hammer head I think its a plumb and a small one with a oxagonial shaped head they both have nail pulls

Thanks for all the info. I took notes.

Wish you had used the back of one of those things on those inconsiderate fools mouthing off .you a very good speaker an demonstrater. first time on this site

Cant find anywhere on the web for the orange Kydex hatchet sheath you showed. Any help you can offer?

Good vid, thanks!

When is this show gonna happen again? Love to go.

I use a vintage double bevel hewing hatchet to split kindling! 😂

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Not one Aussie axe there... we invented the bloody axe!

Dave Canterbury Just walked bye..

where do we get that amazing axe with the sling made of horse tack material?

Weres the norlunds???

Very nice!

11:25 I would call that a miners axe or rafting axe. A true rafting or mining axe has a large poll for hammering. Some are checkered, some are hardened.

very good video .thank you.

Has anyone else noticed that they do not have a Pulaski axe

Why step wedge is used?

The large English felling axe is a type 5 Elwell same makers of the other axe head

That is coming from a guy who knows.

My utility shed recently burned to the ground. Inside I had two True Temper double bit axes. My concern is the temper of the heads after the fire. What do you recommend?

Above 20"? Obviously never seen australian bushmen

Very nice video Craig, I recently acquired a" Plum Leader" Half - Hatchet, and "B&O R.R." stamped on the other side. Do you have an idea how old the hatchet is? Thanks

Im waiting on a Mask From Roost so I can get My Woodcraft Axe on My pack and out into The Woods!! Good Man rite there Folks 👊

awesome video rooster!I'm a big boys axe fan!! Do you think council still come out with a saddle cruiser axe after the commemorative sell out??

What axes are in the thumb nail

Good info on the double headed. I was off on why they were made

If a double AXE that ILove it splits Hemlock wood really good it's really sharp hi Greg Hughes🌲🌲🌲☀️

Informative video, by a guy that obviously knows more modern Industry Branding. Wood shingles were properly called "shakes". As for Double-Bits, one side edged for "Slashing", the other for "Chopping". Axes started with several patterns, for specific uses. Axmen, had them modified for their personal use, as well as the handle length they were hung on. As time progressed, manufacturers modified & named their own designs, ( our {ax name} is better than better than X?X?X?. When I was young, you could still get 42" handles. Straight, Curved, or Really Curved. Hatchets & Hewing axes, all had a straight edge, Chopping & Slashing Axes all had curved edges. Special names like "Cruiser", or "Marking", was generally lighter & hung shorter. No More, No Less!

rooster looks like the pansy twot he really is next to a guy that can actually swing an axe.

Are carbon fiber handles a thing?

Subscribed. Good shit. 🤙

can I have that True Temper double bit please?

I THINK I DIE AND GONE TO AXE HEAVEN!!!😀😀😀

What's the difference between say a Michigan double-bit axe and a cruiser axe?

I could hand nail 2 n half square n hour with a Drywall hatchet when I was a young Man..lol

What does shingle, shingles, texture shingles and shingling mean ?

hello, what it is the weight of the practice racing ax?

Dude, put a mic on the person.

at 9:40 what was that again???

I would like to have free membership and be around with you guys because I got a double bit axe to her name is black ring

those mutton chops tho...

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Dude is struggling with ounces and inches! 2 complete opposite means of measurements yet he keeps calling inches ounces lmao

Although the individual doing the presentation didn't strike me as overly intelligent, it was worth watching just to see a few axes that are pretty uncommon these days.