What is the mora of hatchets?

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This has probably been asked many times. I'm looking for a cheap good quality basic hatchet. What are my options?
 
Fiskars Hatchet for sure! The plastic handle is very securely held onto the Finnish steel head. The steel is very good, the ergos are great! You can pick up the 14" model (best size of hatchets in my opinion) for around $25 at many outdoors stores. Even the "sheath" sucks like on moras, they are identical in their respective catagories. You will not be disappointed.


BTW, I also picked up a 14" Wetterlings for about $30 on eBay, another great hatchet. More traditional, a little better materials and sheath, but a little heavier and needs a little more care. Your choice, you won't be upset with either.
 
The hand-forged Swedish $30 Wetterlings Hunter's Axe (16") or the Wildlife Axe (13") get my vote. I have the 16" Hunter's Axe and used it on a camping trip this week. To beat it, you'd have to spend $90 on a Gransfors Bruks (and that still might not beat it.....).

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
Wetterlings definitly ,the Gerbers and Fiskars are more like the CS bushman of axes.
I would like to check out the double bit Marble(35$) on Ragweed forge but he won't deal with canadians.
 
The Smokey Mountain Knifeworks catalog floating around the office has a genuine Mora hatchet advertised; $56.00 I believe.
 
IMO, the Estwing 14" hatchet. Damn near indestructable, sharpens up well and stays that way. Not too expensive (don't know if they've gone up, but mine was 29.95 when I bought it).
 
Say Heah Everybody, I went out looking for a Mora 510 and ended up buying the 3.8+" Mora Classic #1 and the Mora 2000 and the Mora Hatvhet. The Mora 2000 and the Hatchet were sold as a combo kit, in orange only. But I had a nice guy at BladeHQ (Alex) send me a e-mail breaking down the prices, and at my cost I qualified for free shipping which turned out to be around $5.00 more for getting the Mora 2000 and the Hatchet in the Olive Green. I started to research on Youtube and even though I can't find the video, I could of swore the videoist (new word) said that the Head on the Mora Hatchet extended around two inches into the handle (sort of like a ("T") That to me would make it safer not to have the head fly off when chopping. Maybe that explains the cost between the Mora Hatchet and the Fiskar. But the Mora 2000 intrigued me more. After watching (Youtube) and reading Comanies) info on it I still don't know what you would call the edge on the 2K, Half of it look's like a Scandi. While the front half looks like a Flat Grind. .Anyhow, I did get what I wanted for yeah, $5.00 more, Heck Ya. Anyone with info on how the head on the Mora Hatchet would really be appriciated. Thanx a Google in advance.
 
A vintage plumb scout hatchet head, a council tools hatchet, or definitely the Vaughan sub zero hatchet. They're absolutely awesome.
The fiskars are basically hand held splitting tools.
 
I'll get boo'd for saying this but the cheap Chinese hatchets at the hardware store aren't atrocious. They work, take an acceptable edge, and if you abuse it you can toss it and buy another. What would you hesitate to do with a throw away hatchet?
 
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Necro thread. But I'd tend to agree that the comparison with Fiskars models is fair one stylistically and from a design philosophy standpoint (although Mora makes a small hatchet.)
 
Not necessarily...it just makes it inappropriate for some kinds of work that traditional hatchets are able to handle.
 
Yeah, like work that involves sticking the bit in wood. But they're perfectly good for stirring a large pot of stew.
 
For chopping and shaping work they do just fine...splitting not so much.
 
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