One of the sweetest sounds (and feelings) in the outdoors is when a sharpened axe splits cleanly through the wood you are cutting with it. Learning how to sharpen an axe is key to safe and efficient ...

I finally got around to sharpening my favorite Chopper 1 axe by taking it to our neighborhood hardware store. There’s some good comments on the danger of aggressive grinding that might help those who ...

T hese days we don’t think much about axes. They’re kinda old fashioned and they are too closely associated with manual labor for them to be very popular. It’s a shame, because there is lore to an ax.

Abe Lincoln's productivity secret was to use sharper tools to get the job done more efficiently. He said: "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe." ...

Now you can cap off a late night in Vegas with something different: a little axe=-throwing. Anyone can tap their inner Celt, Viking or lumberjack at a new indoor facility called Axe Monkeys, which ...

I’ve said before that when it’s for the kids they get whatever they want. We’ve even torn down a perfectly good school and built a new one — all for the kids. The whole thing has gotten so out of hand ...

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter got a job with a timber merchant. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions, and the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him ...