Swedish surplus axe, I guess the Swedish military can't afford the good domestic product
I noticed that, too; of all the things for the Swedes to import...forest axes? They look the same as the Swiss ones apart from the red paint & maybe the handle material.
Someone mentioned the Gerber products, I think those are licensed Fiskars (the Swedes must hate the Finns too much to do business, lol) and I've been pleasantly surprised with them. Definitely a detour from what I had typically thought of as an 'axe' though, having grown up swinging a Sears in the Boy Scouts. If I had to carry one all day in moist conditions they'd be on the list. If I had to build something larger than a small campfire with one, probably not.
-A lot shorter than usual (not as short as the surplus axe above, though)
-Extremely lightweight, owing to hollow plastic haft and small head
-Extremely sharp, especially for a store-bought axe, but wide grind angle (it's at least 30 degrees). Seems like harder steel than most store-boughts, but the wide bevel helps
For brush trimming, which is what these were clearly meant for, the light weight and fast handling are nice, and the very sharp/wide blade punches through cross-grain, yet bounces out of the cut. Almost too bouncy in my opinion, as I felt a committed swing into a solid log would result in a broken nose (slight hyperbole, but an axe-head that pops back up out of the cut was a little different than I was used to). But if your task is trimming small branches or clearing brush while on the go, it seems ideally suited. The smaller hatchet works just about as well (all the long handle is doing is making the swing faster, and the bounce more lively; you aren't really letting gravity do the work on the downstroke like most axes so the length isn't much advantage). I found it wasn't great for splitting, both due to the light weight and the plastic wrapping around the sides of the head (if the split runs far ahead of the blade on a longer piece of wood, the plastic will strike/rub the sides of the cut)
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