Dmitry Pruss - Dec 15, 2008 7:46 pm - Voted 10/10
The scarfyou meant it's this thingie hanging from the eyelet of the axe? Now that's lightweight :)))
Ejnar Fjerdingstad - Dec 16, 2008 11:31 am - Voted 10/10
A veryingenious axe!
cp0915 - Dec 17, 2008 4:33 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: A veryNo doubt! Good stuff.
vanman798 - Dec 17, 2008 4:51 pm - Hasn't voted
AxeI was wondering about the the Adze. What is the reason it is circular?
parky - Dec 17, 2008 6:16 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: AxeGood question. The adze unit connects with, and unscrews from, the pick. It does have a sort of locking mechanism, requiring quite a firm twist to unlock and unscrew it. You then have to bash the half-unscrewed adze on the floor to free the pick unit from its chamfered housing. I'd guess from an engineering point of view that it made more sense to make a circular unit that was going to screw in. This would avoid the need for a flat adze to be correctly aligned in the horizontal plane throughout the life of the tool. I'd hate to have to cut away at ice with a tool that wasn't correctly aligned to the swing of the shaft. But as it was, all I used the adze for was chippping hard ice to melt in our stove on Orizaba's high camp!
Am I making any sense?
vanman798 - Dec 19, 2008 12:22 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: AxeThx for the info!
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