How to pick the best axe for the job at hand

FELLING AXE

The thin blade on a felling axe has a razor-sharp edge for efficiently cutting across wood fibres when felling trees or bucking logs. Most felling axes sport handles longer than 31 inches and heavy heads weighing 1.4 kilograms or more. The double-bit, or two-blade, felling axe, once the mainstay of lumberjacks, is now a nostalgic tool of a bygone era, but single-bit felling axes still serve as hard-working wood cutters.