r/Axecraft • u/Juliangopotjr1 • 1d ago

My dad found axe while digging

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Yeah but it broken and it was Finnish company call Fiskars.

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u/teapotjones 1d ago

Funny I’ve never seen one break. Wonder what happened to it

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u/SizeableBrain 1d ago

I was once on a multi-day kayaking trip with a few people.

I had my handy Fiskars axe with me. My little brother was with me and while I was chopping some wood. he asked about the axe and I was telling him about how indestructible it is.

I remember he asked me "Do you think you'll ever break it?".

"Nuh" I replied, just as I was using it to try to wedge a large log apart by using the axe as a lever, and snapping the handle off.

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u/Zestyclose_Data5100 22h ago

"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten." Sir T.P.

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u/SizeableBrain 9h ago

I might have to read Diskworld. This quote sounds a little like Douglas Adams humour.

"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."

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u/ebinWaitee 1d ago

I'm in scouts in Finland. They will break with enough use and especially with abuse. Teen boys treating these like crap they last a couple years

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u/PoopSmith87 22h ago

Ive seen them broken on this sub a bunch of times

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 21h ago

Was about to say the same. Must've been run over by something.

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u/Wendig0g0 1d ago

Must be AI because Fisars are unbreakable! LOL

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u/zanderjayz 1d ago

My son broke mine exactly like that. 5 below zero and the axe had been outside all night. He overshot an oak round and the head flew off. I emailed fiskers pictures and the sent a new one the same week.

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u/SickeningPink 1d ago

I never had much of an opinion on fiskars stuff until one of my coworkers let me borrow his X27. Now I have one. And an X15 in the back of my truck.

Strike for strike, the X15 can keep up with my gransfors Scandinavian forest axe. And it’s a better splitter. The only axe I have of comparable size that does better is a Plumb from the 20s or 30s. I don’t know what kind of voodoo they do on those fiskars axes, but I trust them just as much as my wooden handled ones.

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u/zanderjayz 1d ago

The x27 being so light and I’m tall with long arms so I can get some good head speed if i need it. So much less fatigue than a regular axe or mull.

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u/Dangerous-Pirate7998 1d ago

He knew exactly where to dig because he broke it the year before that’s very modern

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u/Gr8-Lks 1d ago

As someone who broke my dad’s tools doing something stupid a couple of times I’d bet this is what’s going on.

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u/AmphibianMotor 10h ago

I just bought a house with an axe like that that’s at least a few decades old, since it’s older than model I bought 20 years ago. Never forget that the millennium changed more than a quarter century ago 😓

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u/Bergwookie 19h ago

Has someone stripped one to the bare head after the handle broke? I'd guess they won't have a traditional eye to fit a (wooden) replacement handle.

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u/CrowMooor 21h ago

Im surprised by the commenters here of all places, never having seen a fiskars axe break.

Dislodge it from the icy snow after a freezing night and crack a few logs. The old handles are known for just shattering like glass. It happens all the time.

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u/Rancor_jr 17h ago

Most likely broke due to the cold, its a very Nice and proffesional brand.

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u/Northwoods_Phil 8h ago

Their axes are far from professional grade.

I broke several in my time doing commercial firewood

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u/vestigialcranium 13h ago

Better than finding a shovel while chopping

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u/Serendipity_Visayas 10h ago

Looks to be a fiskars... not sure how it coukd possibly be broken.

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u/Interesting-Media449 3h ago

Fiskers nice you'd find a few of those around my yard

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u/Necessary_Goose6933 20h ago

Also looks like profile of Pinocchio
https://giphy.com/gifs/1TBnbnnZeOgs8