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    Chopping wood

    Looking for any opinions about the brand "FISKARS" made in Finland. Wanting to see if they are nice quality axes or not.

    Any help/thoughts appreciated, thanks.

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    Wish I could help you mate. I did my house's lawn for about 6 years (17->23), I have to say I enjoyed it a lot when it was a fresh sunday afternoon or a sunday morning... and I didn't wake up with a hangover. Very relaxing, specially to garden without shoes...helps to get rid of all that weekly stress. Anyways, I used to buy all my things at the local Home Depot(now known as Easy), and never a special brand. Good luck mate.

    Before pressing the "PostQuick Reply" button I found this :

    http://www.spyderco.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25413

    and this http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/index.html

    and this http://www.gerbergear.com/

    aaand, finally, this http://www.americantomahawk.com/products/cqc-t.htm , they have a pretty bad ass axe.


    Saludos!

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    Thanks Javier, as for Gerber, I heard good things as well of them.
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    My mother and father are using "Fiskars" kitchen knifes since 2000 (+- 1 year) and according to my father they are very nice and he likes using them! But I think that they are a little bit expensive for the overall quality! After all they are nice appliances.
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    Quote Originally Posted by darkart View Post
    My mother and father are using "Fiskars" kitchen knifes since 2000 (+- 1 year) and according to my father they are very nice and he likes using them! But I think that they are a little bit expensive for the overall quality! After all they are nice appliances.
    Good to know.

    Finally pulled the trigger and bought one. Damn... quite nice for the price point.

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    It's a good brand.

    They also own Silva, for navigation etc.
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    Thanks Erik, tried it out and was very impressed. I have to say though, if you're not used to the "manual labor" of chopping wood, the elbow gets SUPER sore! Damn, it STILL hurts! LOL!

    But was very satisfying all the same.

    And side note, I like that they are made in Finland vs China

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    If it's any comfort I help them with some R&D
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erik View Post
    If it's any comfort I help them with some R&D
    While sober I hope.

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    I feel better already

    Also, got the wifey the hatchet... she loves it.
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