- HM-3 1/2F, handy axe for home, farm, dairy, sport, recreation, garden or home use
- Fiberglass handle for balance and control, both lightweight and durable
- Heat treated blade, wood and steel wedge assembly
- After use, clean handle and coat blade with light lubricant
- Truper 30528, stock up on quality truper tools for other projects today
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Truper 30528, HM-3 1/2F, 3-1/2-Pound Single Bit Michigan, Fiberglass Handle, 33-Inch. Handy axe for Home, farm, dairy, sport, recreation, garden or home use. Fiberglass Handle for balance and control, both lightweight and durable . Heat treated blade, wood and steel wedge assembly. After use, clean handle and coat blade with light lubricant. Stock up on quality Truper Tools for other projects today. Truper has been in the hand tool manufacturing business for over 40-year and is by far the largest Mexican company in its field. Truper relies on the most advanced modern and efficient technology to guarantee the optimum quality and value of its products and demanding service needs of the company's global customers.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Don't buy. I bought the unmatched set of "Truper 30957 6-Pound Splitting Maul, 36-Inch Fiberglass Handle", "Truper 30528 3-1/2-Pound Single Bit Michigan Axe, Fiberglass Handle, 33-Inch", and a Truper Pick & Mattock, all around the beginning of 2009, all with yellow Fiberglass handles for durability, and all under the name "Collins", that I remembered from childhood. Note the designs have changed; however the first two products appear identical but for the black "racing stripes".
None got significant use until the summer of 2011 when the head of the Maul stayed stuck in a disk / cylinder of trunk that I was splitting. Close examination showed that the handle was a steep wedge ~glued in, had just "come out", and there was no obvious way short of major machine tools that the head was going to be useful for anything. The hardware store where I bought it also hadn't seen this before, and marvelled.
Then on smaller disks I noticed that the head of the axe was beginning to loosen. The hole farthest from the handle has a glassy plastic overlay that never moved, yet the handle itself began to head away from the axe, and its movement was preceded by a more pliable black sealer / adhesive of some sort that was forced out of the hole and down the handle, in the direction of the user. Handle and head haven't yet parted company, but I'm no longer using it as I consider it dangerous. Like the Maul, if I only had a machine shop I'd just ream out the hole and go wooden next time; but since I don't....
The mattock continues to work just fine, although I haven't used it much.
I work with computers for a living (chopping wood is only an avocation, and as I don't do the gym as often as I should, a "light duty" one at that), so this just doesn't seem to be a reasonable failure rate. I contacted servicio@truper.com regarding their products, and never heard back anything.
This isn't how I expect to be treated. My next such will be a Fiscars; I have their hatchet (what luck no Collins...), it's proven indestructible so far.
None got significant use until the summer of 2011 when the head of the Maul stayed stuck in a disk / cylinder of trunk that I was splitting. Close examination showed that the handle was a steep wedge ~glued in, had just "come out", and there was no obvious way short of major machine tools that the head was going to be useful for anything. The hardware store where I bought it also hadn't seen this before, and marvelled.
Then on smaller disks I noticed that the head of the axe was beginning to loosen. The hole farthest from the handle has a glassy plastic overlay that never moved, yet the handle itself began to head away from the axe, and its movement was preceded by a more pliable black sealer / adhesive of some sort that was forced out of the hole and down the handle, in the direction of the user. Handle and head haven't yet parted company, but I'm no longer using it as I consider it dangerous. Like the Maul, if I only had a machine shop I'd just ream out the hole and go wooden next time; but since I don't....
The mattock continues to work just fine, although I haven't used it much.
I work with computers for a living (chopping wood is only an avocation, and as I don't do the gym as often as I should, a "light duty" one at that), so this just doesn't seem to be a reasonable failure rate. I contacted servicio@truper.com regarding their products, and never heard back anything.
This isn't how I expect to be treated. My next such will be a Fiscars; I have their hatchet (what luck no Collins...), it's proven indestructible so far.
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