My dad bore an ugly scar on his knee from a cut he received as a teenager on the farm. Serious business, indeed, the axe and its use.
Axe making was serious business then, and their use was likewise serious in felling trees for lumber, firewood, pulp, and land clearing. It also makes a surprisingly nice coffee-tableīook, the kind of read you’ll find yourself picking up again and again to browse its pages and look at the lustrous photos of classic choppers.Īmerican Axe shines with an extensive treatment of axes from the country’s prime woodchopping era, which ran roughly a century from the Civil War to somewhere in the 1960s, when axes were run out of town by one of our other favorite tools: the chainsaw. And this tome helps explain the tool and why it endures. There’s visceral pleasure in a good swing into a solid log.
Few implements in human history have proven as useful as the axe.
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