INDEX: Axe and Hatchet Displays, Log Splitting Wedge Displays

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BACKSTORY: An axe (/æks/ sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, also called a haft or a helve.

Before the modern axe, the stone-age hand axe without a handle was used from 1.5 million years BP. Hafted axes (those with a handle) date only from 6,000 BC. The earliest examples of handled axes have heads of stone with some form of wooden handle attached (hafted) in a method to suit the available materials and use. Axes made of copper, bronze, iron and steel appeared as these technologies developed.

The axe is an example of a simple machine, as it is a type of wedge, or dual inclined plane. This reduces the effort needed by the wood chopper. It splits the wood into two parts by the pressure concentration at the blade. The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase the force at the cutting edge—not using the full length of the handle is known as choking the axe. For fine chopping using a side axe this sometimes is a positive effect, but for fellingwith a double bitted axe it reduces efficiency. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, ‘axe‘ of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side. Hatchets may also be used for hewing when making flattened surfaces on logs; when the hatchet head is optimized for this purpose it is called a hewing hatchet.^[1]

Although hand ax and hatchet are often used interchangeably in contemporary usage, historically the nomenclature distinguishes two distinct classes of tools. All 19th and 20th century manufacturer and retailer literature unanimously separate hatches from hand axes, sometimes placing the former in a separate section of their product catalogs. Others, might place the two categories separately but adjacent to each other.^[2]

A hand ax (also known by terms including “camp ax,” “belt ax,” “hunters ax” and others) is a short-handled woods tool. A hatchet is a short-handled construction trades tool with multipurpose head purposely designed for a given application. For this reason, hatchet handles are generally straight so that users can rotate them in their hand to switch from one head feature to the other.

The most common hatchet head patterns are the carpenter’s hatchet, roofing/shingling hatchet and lathing/drywall hatchet.^[3]

“Hatchet” was used to describe a small battle axe in Middle English.^[4]”

Burying the hatchet” is a phrase meaning “making peace,” attributed to an Iroquois tradition of hiding or putting away a tomahawk after a peace agreement. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place. It functions by converting a forceapplied to its blunt end into forces perpendicular (normal) to its inclined surfaces. The mechanical advantage of a wedge is given by the ratio of the length of its slope to its width.^[1]^[2] Although a short wedge with a wide angle may do a job faster, it requires more force than a long wedge with a narrow angle.