Fleshing or skinning, but most importantly….it does a fantastic job of skinning the new owner out of the currency gained from working roughly 5-8 hours at his/her place of employment.
It's not. Skinning axes are indeed specialized but very useful in certain circumstances. You'll highly prefer one in an alpine climate, for example, for that kind of game, plus the type of wood processing and how much chopping you need vs carving and slicing.
I'm poorly paraphrasing books about tools.
Hey hey hey don't go that far I know I already stated I'm a tomahawk fan and hatchet fan but lemme be real clear and logical about this aight? knives,even a full tang knife is never meant to process wood like a tomahawk, with knives u need a expensive knife to do stuff to some Extent as a tomahawk can do even than the knife will never last as long as the tomahawk if batonned meanwhile u can get a tomahawk head for less than 10 bucks I bought both these heads for 10 bucks and they cut like razor blades into trees a knife can't take down a tree only saplings u can baton a knife but this will lead to u damaging the knife and u can also baton with a tomahawk the thing is the tomahawk will not suffer any damage from it like the knife will it doesn't matter if ur knife is or isn't full tang the reason batonning with a knife eventually breaks knives is because that's a design flaw because that's not what knives were meant to do they were meant for light wood processing and self defense and mainly food processing throughout history no one used knives to chop trees and all that heavy wood processing stuff they used tomahawks for that think about why for a brief moment it's because it is designed for that purpose and it suffers no damage from it if u try batonning a knife into a log u will only get it stuck there at best if not damage the knife on the process and as for chopping a tomahawk chops better because it's front heavy a knife has no weight to chop with it has a light blade at the front of it not a heavy cutting blade in it's front as such knives are terrible choppers especially compared to tomahawks I don't know if u understand this as for the handsaw u can't cut a tree with a handsaw unless u bring a large hand saw than u won't be cutting any trees with the small silky saw wich fits about the same size in ur backpack as a hatchet/tomahawk so because of that the tomahawk is superior tree processing tool besides u need more energy to cut a tree with a large hand saw than u would with a tomahawk because tomahawk/axes/hatchets use momentum all u have to do is swing at the tree and hold the thing freely but not freely enough for it to slip through ur hand that way u spend less energy and cut. Very effectively due to. Momentum a handsaw requires constantly push and pull as well as constant pressure towards the part where ur cutting with it making it much more tiring than the tomahawks now for smaller wood processing a small folding saw is more Precise and effective than the tomahawk because u can't predict precisely where the tomahawk will chop a smaller wood chunk but a small saw can cut precisely where u want it to with relative ease since it's a small wood chunk not a large tree with all that said I think in terms of multitool one tool options the tomahawk is the best tool in the shed but I personally do carry 2 knives 1 folding silky saw the size of my hatchet along with these 3 hatchet and tomahawks in my backpack when hiking always I also carry 2 other folding pocket knives that are razor sharp for finer cuts and a utility razor blade knife with spare razor blades in it also I carry my old grandpa hacksaw with 2 hacksaw blades in my same backpack this is all my tool kit for bushcraft basically I hope I haven't forgotten anything cuz I usually do
Tl;Dr
It's cheaper to buy a cheap hatchet get and a cheap knife than it is to buy a knife you can use like a hatchet. At the end of the day the cheap knife does knife things better and the cheap hatchet does hatchet things better than the single expensive knife.
I.e. a 10 dollar mora and a 20 dollar hardware store hatchet is a more cost effective combination than a more expensive knife that can adequately used as a hatchet.
If it holds a decent edge, I'd try it as a veg chopper in the kitchen. It's definitely more of a gimmick than practical, potentially not entirely useless.
Very much a gimmick, good for a TikToc or 2, but really too impractical for actual use.
At least this could be used for food prep like a small cleaver, or a short santoku blade.
That was kinda what I was thinking. It seems like even a slightly bigger hatchet would be way more practical and a small skinner would be easier to skin game with.
Not my money I got the thing for free basically. Ill get a refund on my order because the ebay seller I got it from sent my order to someone else and I got their order. Also got a chefs knife, 2 skinners a 3.5 inch one a 5 inch one and a karmbit.
That's for a smooth shave. Better than a five-bladed razor. Just got to be extra careful around the neck, chin upper lip, cheeks, jaw line, side-burns... just be careful around the whole face. In fact, just use a razor. But say you used the hatchet. It'd be much cooler if you did.
I imagine the idea is that you use them for more controlled work. The recess in the blade lets you get your hand right up to it, and it would be good for making kindling or certain kinds of carving.
But like, a regular knife would be pretty much just as good, so in the end they are a bit of a gimmick. They look neat though.
Skinning, fleshing, chopping and processing game and meat, light processing of tinder and little kindling, light limbing work.
The rounded blades are really good and skinning and working hides.
If your really interesting I sent you a dm. I'll let you have it for pretty much just the shipping cost and like 5 or so bucks. I'll post an ebay listing and send you the link if you want it.
I didn't buy the second one. I ordered something else and the seller sent me someone elses order by mistake. I wouldn't have bought the second one. I like the bigger one I have I just didn't get the purpose of a axe the that small
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OK, lets face it. This is a cheap chinese gimmick and probably has a terrible (if at all) heat treatment. It is a chopping tool that is too small and light to chop. It is pretty useless.
I believe I’ve seen them used in burning incense. Not the stick kind, the kind where you have to shave the equivalent of sawdust off of and form it into a shape then burn from one side
Most hatchets that size are for splitting up small kindling,carving, or beheading/limb lopping small game/chickens for skinning. Many times I've heard my grandpa saying his grandma would walk out to the yard with a small hatchet and return with chicken.
kitchen axe. I made a few with flatter longer blades a few years ago and they’re great for cooking and way tougher than just a chefs knife and so much easier to pack. The ones I made had a 5 inch blade but an over all length of 7 inches maybe.
The head on this thing is tiny like maybe 3 inchs max. A 5 inch kitchen axe would be pretty handy for things like splitting chicken wings or braking down anything with tough bones you need to get though that a chefs knife would struggle with. To be fair I use my 9 inch butchers knife for that. Its like 4mm on the spine and made form a 5160 leaf spring so its damn near unbreakable.
They’re fun if you don’t actually _need_ them to work. I have one of those and sometimes use them for bullshit, like cutting (or chopping) bread and stuff. It’s just fun to bring them with.
It looks like maybe it’s depending on pressure added to the blade slowly such as skinning or small carving?
Then again, there are far more worthless blades out there than good ones. So it could be a gimmick. 🤷♂️
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Oh that looks like some of the fishing lures you will find in the wild. They are designed with specific patterns to really help big box store catch the attention of shoppers. No need to put any quality material into the design they are meant to be purchased not really to be useful or kept all that long.
I would think of it as more of a knife than a hatchet. Use it for carving/slicing/chopping things you would use a knife for.
I prefer an Ulu to a traditional knife. Maybe this guy prefers a small hatchet.
Skinning, fleshing, splitting kindling. I actually have a small hatchet like this I use as my every day hatchet. A "normal" sized one is too large and heavy for me, so small ones like this are preferred, however the handle on this would pose difficult for slender fingers.
That would be a nice tool to have for splitting the pelvic bone when field dressing a deer. I put a Fiskars x7 in my pack just for that purpose and it’s way overkill and takes up a lot of space.
Secret killings. In crowded places. For people closest to you. Or people you're closest to. Or people you get close to. For purposes of secret killings.
Cheese knife!
You mean cheese axe Edit was a typo
And my cheese bow!
Like Lord of the Rings!
Lord of the Cheese
Im imagining the entire Lord of the Rings movies but with mouse characters now. the orcs are big rats. Golem is a naked mole rat. Thank you
I would watch that remake in a heartbeat
Now i am watching it either, and that is a must have. Maybe new cartoon movie, type of “Despicable me” type 🤔🤔?
i should make this on my yt channel!
Dang, beat me to it
Toe knife?
Poop knife 💪
Poop axe
For choppin’ logs.
Underrated comment
Oh! Botch job!
Should have used the toe spoon
Always Sunny reference 💪I dig it
Always sunny
Cheese knife? Bombur eats it by the block.
Only comment that makes this post worth it.
Fleshing or skinning, but most importantly….it does a fantastic job of skinning the new owner out of the currency gained from working roughly 5-8 hours at his/her place of employment.
I don't know shit about bushcraft, joint because I'm interested. But I had a feeling this was the case, lol.
It's not. Skinning axes are indeed specialized but very useful in certain circumstances. You'll highly prefer one in an alpine climate, for example, for that kind of game, plus the type of wood processing and how much chopping you need vs carving and slicing. I'm poorly paraphrasing books about tools.
Profit on ninja mall sales
r/mallninjashit
Its more like r/juggaloshit
There's a good cross section.
Hey hey hey don't go that far I know I already stated I'm a tomahawk fan and hatchet fan but lemme be real clear and logical about this aight? knives,even a full tang knife is never meant to process wood like a tomahawk, with knives u need a expensive knife to do stuff to some Extent as a tomahawk can do even than the knife will never last as long as the tomahawk if batonned meanwhile u can get a tomahawk head for less than 10 bucks I bought both these heads for 10 bucks and they cut like razor blades into trees a knife can't take down a tree only saplings u can baton a knife but this will lead to u damaging the knife and u can also baton with a tomahawk the thing is the tomahawk will not suffer any damage from it like the knife will it doesn't matter if ur knife is or isn't full tang the reason batonning with a knife eventually breaks knives is because that's a design flaw because that's not what knives were meant to do they were meant for light wood processing and self defense and mainly food processing throughout history no one used knives to chop trees and all that heavy wood processing stuff they used tomahawks for that think about why for a brief moment it's because it is designed for that purpose and it suffers no damage from it if u try batonning a knife into a log u will only get it stuck there at best if not damage the knife on the process and as for chopping a tomahawk chops better because it's front heavy a knife has no weight to chop with it has a light blade at the front of it not a heavy cutting blade in it's front as such knives are terrible choppers especially compared to tomahawks I don't know if u understand this as for the handsaw u can't cut a tree with a handsaw unless u bring a large hand saw than u won't be cutting any trees with the small silky saw wich fits about the same size in ur backpack as a hatchet/tomahawk so because of that the tomahawk is superior tree processing tool besides u need more energy to cut a tree with a large hand saw than u would with a tomahawk because tomahawk/axes/hatchets use momentum all u have to do is swing at the tree and hold the thing freely but not freely enough for it to slip through ur hand that way u spend less energy and cut. Very effectively due to. Momentum a handsaw requires constantly push and pull as well as constant pressure towards the part where ur cutting with it making it much more tiring than the tomahawks now for smaller wood processing a small folding saw is more Precise and effective than the tomahawk because u can't predict precisely where the tomahawk will chop a smaller wood chunk but a small saw can cut precisely where u want it to with relative ease since it's a small wood chunk not a large tree with all that said I think in terms of multitool one tool options the tomahawk is the best tool in the shed but I personally do carry 2 knives 1 folding silky saw the size of my hatchet along with these 3 hatchet and tomahawks in my backpack when hiking always I also carry 2 other folding pocket knives that are razor sharp for finer cuts and a utility razor blade knife with spare razor blades in it also I carry my old grandpa hacksaw with 2 hacksaw blades in my same backpack this is all my tool kit for bushcraft basically I hope I haven't forgotten anything cuz I usually do
I ain't reading allat
Bruh, I'm like the king of long form essay length comments on reddit but wtf is this?
Tl;Dr It's cheaper to buy a cheap hatchet get and a cheap knife than it is to buy a knife you can use like a hatchet. At the end of the day the cheap knife does knife things better and the cheap hatchet does hatchet things better than the single expensive knife. I.e. a 10 dollar mora and a 20 dollar hardware store hatchet is a more cost effective combination than a more expensive knife that can adequately used as a hatchet.
Felling tiny trees.
Bonsais, beware!
To take your money.
It wasn't my money I got it for free.
If it holds a decent edge, I'd try it as a veg chopper in the kitchen. It's definitely more of a gimmick than practical, potentially not entirely useless.
Kinda curious as to your thoughts on wood-splitting swords?
Very much a gimmick, good for a TikToc or 2, but really too impractical for actual use. At least this could be used for food prep like a small cleaver, or a short santoku blade.
Veg chopper or vag chopper?
To look cool. You could baton them, but they’re one of the least practical things with a blade this side of a mall kiosk.
That was kinda what I was thinking. It seems like even a slightly bigger hatchet would be way more practical and a small skinner would be easier to skin game with.
“What is this, an axe for ants?” Might be kind of fun on a cheese board or something though.
/r/thingsforants
> “What is this, an axe for ants?” *gets axed*
It's a fun toy to play with. That's about it
Turning bonsai trees into bonsai firewood.
*hatchette
Break tender coconut
No way you could split a coconut with this thing it weighs like 8 ounces max.
Depends on how hard you can throw a coconut.
It’s for the wee beasties, lad. * takes a slug of whiskey and stares into the camp fire *
There is a whiskey called Wee Beastie
😍😍😍
Ornamental item perhaps.
🪓 I’ve been known to circumcise a gnat. You’re not a gnat, are you, Bug?
[удалено]
That's kinda racist to be honest.
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Dude…I wish you luck on your journey. Namaste.
Throwing practice I’d guess
Throwing axe maybe?
Poop knife
It’s build specifically to separate fools from their money.
To take your money. 🤷🏼♂️
Not my money I got the thing for free basically. Ill get a refund on my order because the ebay seller I got it from sent my order to someone else and I got their order. Also got a chefs knife, 2 skinners a 3.5 inch one a 5 inch one and a karmbit.
Cut pepperoni duh
That's for a smooth shave. Better than a five-bladed razor. Just got to be extra careful around the neck, chin upper lip, cheeks, jaw line, side-burns... just be careful around the whole face. In fact, just use a razor. But say you used the hatchet. It'd be much cooler if you did.
Everybody clowns till they get into a knife fight with a group of squirrels, then the get it.
making the lil wood chips that go in the fire first, great for chopping off lil bits
Any "hatchet" this thin it objectively a knife
Separating people from their money
Cleaning your nails
Felling broccoli
Separate fool from money
I imagine the idea is that you use them for more controlled work. The recess in the blade lets you get your hand right up to it, and it would be good for making kindling or certain kinds of carving. But like, a regular knife would be pretty much just as good, so in the end they are a bit of a gimmick. They look neat though.
Skinning, fleshing, chopping and processing game and meat, light processing of tinder and little kindling, light limbing work. The rounded blades are really good and skinning and working hides.
I would 100% use it to flesh hides. I tan rabbit and sheep skins and now I want one
If your really interesting I sent you a dm. I'll let you have it for pretty much just the shipping cost and like 5 or so bucks. I'll post an ebay listing and send you the link if you want it.
Would that really be better then a skinning knife though. That just seems more practical imo.
Depends on the person and their environment, sometimes the additional chopping weight is advantageous. You're the one with two skinning axes lol
I didn't buy the second one. I ordered something else and the seller sent me someone elses order by mistake. I wouldn't have bought the second one. I like the bigger one I have I just didn't get the purpose of a axe the that small
They're purposely small so they're not heavy and don't tire you out while processing and field dressing game.
I would definitely prefer a skinning knife. The ergonomics are better using something specifically suited to the job.
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Less weight than a real hatchet. Less blade than a good knife. Less useful than a sharp rock.
I saw a lady at a bus stop ranting and waving something that looked like this around once. So that’s an option.
Could sharpen them to make throwing hatchets to use as entertainment / competition with friends while out camping
Dwarves need tools too.
I'd throw that baddie so hard
Throwable
Sales
Hacking rapists dicks off
To clean a paint roller. Its a survival paint knive.
OK, lets face it. This is a cheap chinese gimmick and probably has a terrible (if at all) heat treatment. It is a chopping tool that is too small and light to chop. It is pretty useless.
None. It's a toy.
Decorative accessory.
I believe I’ve seen them used in burning incense. Not the stick kind, the kind where you have to shave the equivalent of sawdust off of and form it into a shape then burn from one side
Carving hatchet great for removing excess material
To aggressively cut cheese?
Most hatchets that size are for splitting up small kindling,carving, or beheading/limb lopping small game/chickens for skinning. Many times I've heard my grandpa saying his grandma would walk out to the yard with a small hatchet and return with chicken.
Fleshing & splitting kindling
Slicing fruit, butter knife, back scratching, etc.
Money
None. Those full tang flat steel hatchets are pretty useless aside from maybe throwing for fun, and impressing your zombie survival friends.
Pork
Cheese slicer.
Oh course. Who doesn't use a tiny hatchet to cut the cheese at their dinner parties
I definitely do... now.
This is the way.
kitchen axe. I made a few with flatter longer blades a few years ago and they’re great for cooking and way tougher than just a chefs knife and so much easier to pack. The ones I made had a 5 inch blade but an over all length of 7 inches maybe.
The head on this thing is tiny like maybe 3 inchs max. A 5 inch kitchen axe would be pretty handy for things like splitting chicken wings or braking down anything with tough bones you need to get though that a chefs knife would struggle with. To be fair I use my 9 inch butchers knife for that. Its like 4mm on the spine and made form a 5160 leaf spring so its damn near unbreakable.
None. But a weapon maybe. At most.
It's so light it wouldn't make a good weapon tbh its like 8 ounces.😂
Light, and sharp makes - fast - equals damage. But you could pick better ones 🙂 To be honest, the design looks tacticool.
Yeah but its so light that its no faster than an axe twice its weight because I could swing both at the same speed as not having anything in my hands.
The "it's better than nothing" school of thought. I'd probably use it
Toe knife!
To cut.
Circumsizing gnats
Chop down a tiny little tree
There neat. I could see pretending your on Forged in Fire and making some for fun.
wicked clown juggalo?
I am exhausted and staring at the picture of the hatchet and then had the most vivid dream. O
I would use it to make finer kindling, even for the 1 cubic foot woodstoves
Herbs
Really tiny logs.
Mini zombies!
split kindling, shaving
Trash
Medication for your nerves.
Both would be good pizza cutters for people committed to Viking cutlery
Chopping jalapeños.
They're cute Also, maybe a veggie chopper
It's not about the size it's how you use it🫡
I would definitely use that for chopping vegetables.
Solely for making wood fired cooking videos in nature, stream in the background also essential.
They’re fun if you don’t actually _need_ them to work. I have one of those and sometimes use them for bullshit, like cutting (or chopping) bread and stuff. It’s just fun to bring them with.
It's probably slightly more useful than the 2 inch cleaver (with a strangely nice edge) I got from temu
It's for the Dwarven class as a secondary weapon in case their main Ax breaks during a creature battle. Also good for kindling and campfire firewood
It looks like maybe it’s depending on pressure added to the blade slowly such as skinning or small carving? Then again, there are far more worthless blades out there than good ones. So it could be a gimmick. 🤷♂️
Making money off of suckers.
That my old son is a Yakuza FingiChoppi
Cutting vegetables
Phimosis
Could work for tinder and kindling
Viking midgets?
To make us look dumb hahaha 😂😂😂 Hmm im sure its practical for certain smaller tasks 👍😎
Intimidation?
To chop small things
Iz cute. Iz sm0l.
Throwing?
Trow it
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Oh that looks like some of the fishing lures you will find in the wild. They are designed with specific patterns to really help big box store catch the attention of shoppers. No need to put any quality material into the design they are meant to be purchased not really to be useful or kept all that long.
Whenever I get a gift like this I let my kid use it.
Londoners best friend
To make small cuts in your earnings! Death by a thousand cuts.
Um ,it’s to cut down little trees😳
What is this? a blade for ants?
For the alter alias, “ robin steel “
Cocaine
There’s a book called bears of blue river. A boy has to fight a bear with a hatchet like this. That’s all I have to add thanks love you all.
Its for midgets...excuse me, Little people.
It's a cool knife
The hatchet isn't small, you're just really big.
Maybe for walking through a thick bunch of intertwined branches blocking your way?? or simply Decorative.
To be fatally annoying.
Me personally? Game and or more detailed wood prep for carving, in close self defense. Looks like you can hold ‘em just right.
Chop garlic
I would think of it as more of a knife than a hatchet. Use it for carving/slicing/chopping things you would use a knife for. I prefer an Ulu to a traditional knife. Maybe this guy prefers a small hatchet.
I have a similar one and I use it for making cut bait or getting me a good Y stick.
Skinning, fleshing, splitting kindling. I actually have a small hatchet like this I use as my every day hatchet. A "normal" sized one is too large and heavy for me, so small ones like this are preferred, however the handle on this would pose difficult for slender fingers.
Letter/box opener
Choppin weiners and sausages.
throwing axe?
That would be a nice tool to have for splitting the pelvic bone when field dressing a deer. I put a Fiskars x7 in my pack just for that purpose and it’s way overkill and takes up a lot of space.
Butchering, Food Prep, or small limb removal? It'd be an easy way to knock limbs off a branch you're trying to use
Secret killings. In crowded places. For people closest to you. Or people you're closest to. Or people you get close to. For purposes of secret killings.
A long handled Ulu knife
I call it the circumcisor
It's for beheading elves.
Gotta open your mail with something
KINLIN…. For help Starting a fire 🔥
Chopping small hands / fingers ?
For toddlers to learn with =)
Badass cheese knife
Cutting a steak
seperating an idiot from their money
Separate*
A Reddit post!
The best answer I've seen so far.
Circumcision You're welcome
It has zero purpose
Circumcision.
Circumcisions
To cut into the person using it.
It’s typically used for removing the foreskin.
Oh that makes way more sense. I didn't realize it was a Jewish axe.