Gränsfors Bruk Scandinavian Forest Axe
The Scandinavian Forest Axe is meant for proficient axe users and can be used for felling trees. The longer handle allows you to swing the axe with more force. The handle is an ideal length as axes with handles that are too long mean they are difficult to control. Wood processing is made easy with this axe from limbing felled trees to splitting wood and even making feather sticks. This is our instructors’ preferred axe.
Product Specs
Length - 64 cm
Weight - 1.2 kg
Axe head - steel
Handle - hickory
Sheath - vegetable-tanned leather
The Scandinavian Forest Axe is meant for proficient axe users and can be used for felling trees. The longer handle allows you to swing the axe with more force. The handle is an ideal length as axes with handles that are too long mean they are difficult to control. Wood processing is made easy with this axe from limbing felled trees to splitting wood and even making feather sticks. This is our instructors’ preferred axe.
Product Specs
Length - 64 cm
Weight - 1.2 kg
Axe head - steel
Handle - hickory
Sheath - vegetable-tanned leather
The Scandinavian Forest Axe is meant for proficient axe users and can be used for felling trees. The longer handle allows you to swing the axe with more force. The handle is an ideal length as axes with handles that are too long mean they are difficult to control. Wood processing is made easy with this axe from limbing felled trees to splitting wood and even making feather sticks. This is our instructors’ preferred axe.
Product Specs
Length - 64 cm
Weight - 1.2 kg
Axe head - steel
Handle - hickory
Sheath - vegetable-tanned leather
Advantages after testing:
Optimal handle length both from safety and usability perspectives
Disadvantages after testing:
Not meant to fell large trees but small to medium sized trees
Gränsfors Forest Axes are made to be used in the forest for everything from felling large trees to limbing small logs. The distinguishing feature of Forest Axes is a long, rounded edge, with a flat elongated axe head.
Forest Axes are specially designed to cut across the grain of the wood fibres, for example when felling and limbing, in contrast to log splitting, where the axe goes along the grain of the wood fibres.
The various Forest Axes are designed to suit a specific function, and many of the models have been developed in collaboration with specialists and professionals. Hunters, forest workers, fishermen, hikers and survival experts have all had their input into the product development of these axes.
Gränsfors Forest Axes come in different sizes, with a range of axe heads and handles. The smallest, the Gränsfors Mini Hatchet, is only 26 cm long and weighs 0.3 kg. This axe can almost be used as a filleting knife, as it has an extremely thin edge.
The largest, the American Felling axe, is 90 cm long and weighs in at 2.2 kg. This is used to fell really big trees. The choice of Forest Axe depends entirely on what you want to use it for.
All Forest Axes come with a sheath of vegetable-tanned leather and a copy of The Axe Book.