Registered: 01/21/03
Posts: 2203
Loc: Bucks County PA
In my fire training, they refer to axes as "precision, high force striking tools" and that's exactly why we used them with fiberglass handles. I never had a sharp fire ax - they were all ground to an edge similar to the diameter of a pencil lead.
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