Condor Greenland Axe Pathfinder Product Review #12

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back in the woods afternoon guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school out here at the hunters camp in the class area of the school I wanted to go over a little product review with you guys today on a couple of new items that we're carrying on our website these are both axes and there by Condor knife and tool they have been specially designed at least this one has been specially designed for the Pathfinder school it normally comes with a shorter handle on it we've had to handle extended on this to a 1920 inch handle so we got a 23 inch overall axe it's got a nice heavy-duty head on its hand Ford's made out of 1045 high carbon steel there's a small hatchet very similar almost exacting specifications of the grantors Brooks and the Wetterling small hatchet both of these hatchets have the Pathfinder logo embedded into the leather I think that these leather pouches that come with these condylar axes are far superior to either Grahams Brooks or wetterling's to be honest with you it has a nice heavy wealth in it the rivets in there are nice and heavy it actually has an eyelet hole down here where you can put a lanyard of some sort so you don't lose the axe head if you want to it's got a nice heavy-duty strap on it in the strap and a snap system to me is heavier duty than the grant Spurs or the wetterling's but especially what i've seen lately out of wetterling's the snap system on this head is a lot better as far as this axe cover goes now you know I've never been much for doing reviews on gear that's brand new I do it once in a while if I'm introducing something and then I try to test it later on but this axe as you can see is not brand new anymore this one's had the crap beat out of it by me and several other people I wanted to give you a little bit of a demonstration today with this axe I'm going to I've got a big pile of stumps or in cuts from stumps that are mostly solid oak out here red oak and it's real thick and heavy stuff it's also soaking wet because it's been raining in Ohio for a few days now or I'm sorry overnight and it rained all day today just stopped raining a couple hours ago so this stuff's pretty wet wet woods going to be harder to cut and dry wood is not going to split as well and oak is one of the hardest woods there is to try to cut so I thought maybe we chopped up a few of these end cuts today with this axe just to show you the cutting power that does have now I did cut up a lot of in cuts over the last several days during a basic class out here and I did sharpen this axe one time since then other than that it hasn't been sharpened since it came out of the package it's got a really nice blade profile on it I do like this real heavy flat hammer pole on the back and it's got a nice big wide bit on the front of that axe so let's do some cutting with it and see how she does okay you can see I've got a few of them here that I've already cut I'll lay them aside we'll grab something a little bigger and beefier here's a nice heavy-duty in cut right here that's about eight or ten inches high you can see the fiber in that oak is really heavy-duty and it goes through that stuff like it's butter okay guys so there's some pretty heavy chopping right there let's kind of look at this thing as far as just a little bit of carving goes let's grab a piece of stuff is big cut actually I work with us a little bit let's pull this thing up and just kind of do some shaving on this branch this is a green branch was cut down over the last couple of days out here let's play with that for a minute okay let's get this thing up get it worth work on a little bit here nothing wrong with that see those fine shavings there and find carvings even on Greenwood that's a hardwood and nothing wrong with that at all okay now to me guys you know the final test of an axe rather than will it hold an edge does it do fine cutting and will it do heavy chopping it's got an American Hickory handle on it I'm good to go there I want to know if this thing will throw sparks so I can use this for fight starting fire with char cloth so let's see if we get this camera angle somewhere where you can see if this thing doing sparks or not don't sparks and look you guys can see it or not she's definitely telling sparks I said this is 10:45 about 1075 or 1095 I did a high carbon steel and I am getting some sparks off of it probably could use a little heavier duty piece of Flint but definitely got sparks coming off of it so I'm pretty sure I could get that thing to light up some char cloth I had - okay guys I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school when I'm glad that you join me for this video review real quick on these two Condor axes that we're carrying at the Pathfinder school website this is the Scout hatchet just a small belt acts type hatchet to put your hammer sackler the case may be I haven't beat this thing up at all yet but it's made exactly the same with the same process as this Greenland axe is I think the price on these things pretty common man this one's about 40 $45 and this one is somewhere around the $80 range which is quite a bit cheaper than wetterling's or grants furs and to me you know this thing is probably just as good as a wetterling's as far as I'm concerned so far from what I've seen out of it I used it for four days during a basic class

it used to chop some wood wood today I've sharpened it up I've done a little bit of fine carving with it and I like the heavy-duty Hickory handle on it like I said it's got a nice hand forged blade with a big wide bit nice profile on it nice big heavy square hammer pole on the back and the leather pouch is really impressive to me and to me that should be the last thing you're worried about when you buy an axe is what kind of pouch comes with it or what kind of cover comes with it but the fact of the matter is you know a lot of the ones I see nowadays with great axes are garbage this thing is in really really good one it's heavy duty thick like saddle leather it's got some really nice big rivets in it like I said it does have one hole through it right here for a lanyard like a lace hole for a lanyard or whatever to attach it to the accidie wouldn't lose it if you wanted to it's got a nice heavy-duty snap on it condor made in El Salvador not made in the USA not made in Sweden but I thought we'd give him a chance and right now they've more than impressed me so I wanted to give you guys this product review today I appreciate you joining me for this video I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family I'll be back with another video as soon as I can

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