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Walter Egon's avatar

I really enjoy these stories. The detailed context makes it easy for me to imagine how it's like :-) The brittle plastic roof sheeting in the cold ... been there!

I have a silky, too! Well ... almost: It's a Fiskars and the sawblade can retract into the handle, so I'm guessing it's more for camping than serious work like yours. But still! I love that saw. Only used it once because I live in town and can't exactly 'go arboreal' in the park, but if I ever have to start from scratch out in the forest, I have just the saw for building a shelter. Heck, I even have a billhook ... tool fetishist -- can't help myself.

Here's to Mr Skeldon -- the man and his axe. That's a good name for an axe, and an elegant handle on that head. He would have had an eye for quality, I guess.

Cheers!

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Jamie's avatar

I also have a folding silky - it's in my kit bag and it gets used a lot. A lot of arb guys use the foldable ones because the blade can be stowed away easily. Foldable or not, a serious tool capable of some serious flesh shredding.

It's going to be hard to replace the handle on Mr Skeldon as the grain is perfect.It has to be because it is very slender, but boy does it have a thump to it. I have a few weeks of firewood that can attest to the fact! I have some beech, but the grain is far from ideal for such a thin handle.

Eyes peeled at work - there's bound to be a dismantle of some beech and perhaps, just perhaps I save a section from becoming wood chip.

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