Customer Reviews

Bahco Clearing Axe 3022

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The beauty and logic of this tool strikes you as soon as one is put in your hand. There is a substantial mass of steel at the end of a light medium-length axe handle which, coupled with the thinness of the blade - 1/32" or less - gives this way more cutting power with less driving effort than any machete or thicker axe blade. I have a mega-size gas weed wacker with a variety of large high-spinning blades that can sever plant, animal and mineral based objects instantly up to an inch or two in diameter. It makes flat cuts more close and level to the ground than the swede axe, and if working in 120 db noise, petro-fumes and getting totally exhausted and hated by your neighbors is appealing, then forget the axe, it will awaken caveman instincts in you and make you even more dangerous. The axe did not come with instructions. If it was American made - meaning made in China for an American company - it would have come with a 20 page manual, all of which would be safety instructions and legal disclaimers. You really have to love those Swedes and here is your chance to support them. The surveyor who showed me this tool (just like the other reviewer), said you put the replacement blade in and step on the back of the blade with your shoe and full weight to drive it into the notches in the spring yoke that hold it in high tension. Maybe the replacement blade comes with instructions but I didn't buy one and the original one looks like it will last forever if not allowed to rust. It is light enough to haul on your belt. Or just carry it - a mean bear or mountain lion could be dispatched with it. My only caution is that it is easy to leave 1-foot tall, 1" saplings with a sharp diagonal up-cut, on which you would not want to fall.

Used one years ago while working for a land surveyor. Have owned one for the past ten years or so and used it on camping and canoe trips. It is way cooler than you might think and deserves your respect. A razor blade on the end of an axe handle is a true marvel of modern ingenuity.

On a recent hunting trip to Maine, our guide carried this tool with him and we were amazed as to how well it worked. I bought one as soon as I returned from my trip. Incredible tool.