ax 'cuse me

I can swing an ax, and I know how to properly hang one, too.  I own an ax; a Snow and Neally.  I had to carry it around with me on my first trail crew, like it was my child.  I still have never held a baby, but I carried an ax for 12 weeks in the White Mountains.  I took really good care of it.    

Right now it is living in our garage.  It is probably rusty and needs to be sharpened.  The last time I used it was in our woods to split wood for the fireplace.  Swinging it was a little tougher than I remembered, but that is probably because I spend most of my days sitting at a desk, not running around the mountains of the northeast conquering 4 to 22 miles a day.  Those were the good old days…

Aren’t these axes amazing?  I love the handles, which isn’t a very tough thing to say after writing a post about axes, but I do.