My Collection Of Ax Heads: Metal Detecting
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- Join me as I display many of the ax heads I have found over the years while metal detecting. I'm not real knowledgeable about them, but try to give a few tidbits of knowledge that I think is probably right.
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your vids are very therapeutic for me. I suffer from PTSD due to war trauma, and watching your videos helps me focus on other things. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Paul, for your service. I also find the content of his videos a nice distraction from daily stress. He's so entertaining and informative. Take care!
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Thank you for your service and I'm sorry you suffer so.
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Loved this video. I come from a lumber and logging family and have really gotten into metal detecting. Finding old broke crosscut saws and axes is so cool.
The largest is a "goose wing" broad axe for squaring logs into timbers. That style is rather old, and it looks to be in really good shape!
good eye. broad ax had an offset handle too
It's a breitbeil not a goosewing that is another type of broad axe. Common mistake. The axe is probably from germany or austria.
Huh, now I see why I've never found an axe head... you've found them all lol.
I take that back! I've dug 3 axe heads since that comment lol. Pretty exciting!
I've never found an ax head but i have found a complete cross cut saw.
I found 4 axe heads buried in my yard. Maybe they break a lot. It’s a acre in Oklahoma where no history at all took place. I wasn’t using a metal detector, this was just gardening. Also 3 shovel heads, a whole wheel and tire, a large 4’ x2’ steel grate, and about 2,000 lbs of floor tiles. Lol. I guess people just burry trash.
This is by far one of my favorite videos of yours. Would love to see an updated video on axes
You never cease to amaze me! You have an out standing collection which every time you show them off truly blows my mind! Ive metal detected now for 25-30 years and all I ever find is coins, cans, tabs, toy cars, bottle tops, and scrap iron! Nothing to brag about to say the least. But of course Im still a slave to the work force and have limited time to explore! I love your vids and your collections. You are a metal detecting icon!!!
I'd really like for you to take us on a tour of your entire collection. I love your videos Chigg. Keep it up.
This is one of my favorite channels ever and I've been with you for the journey a while now and I just want to say thank you for entertaining me all this time
Me too he is good company and the scenery is also wonderful :)
when the smith draws out the blade { makes it longer and wider} they use a cross pein hammer that alignes the grain .....nice collection
Finally someone who does not consider big iron targets as trash!
Beautiful collection. Thank you for sharing.
Found my first Ax head and found this video... didn't see an exact match but gives me an idea of styles... thanks!
I watch your videos and I was looking at old vids to see what I missed before I subscribed and I about died seeing this vid, my fiancé started restoring axes, he has become fascinated and has also started building with wood, he also collects old tools and wants to save old tools and axes. He is loving your vids now!
Can you ask him what kind of axe head that is at 6:04
It doesn't matter to me what you put in your videos, it's always educational and entertaining! Keep it up & thanks!
Good one. Enjoyed the history and goodies.
Chigg you have such a smooth voice, we could hear you talk all day
Beautiful collection. I love ax heads. They have hard work written all over them. There is something very satisfying about splitting wood.
I love the big ax....how awesome. All your videos are so informative and I really enjoy them. Can't wait for you to get out in the water again.....
Had to share this with my brother, he's an avid axe collector. He'll be stoked to see this.
Wow, very cool. a lot of intersting history on that table. Thanks for sharing👍
Not boring sir... absolutely interesting and unique. Cheers brother!
Lizzy Borden would be impressed with that collection.
absolutely beautiful collection worthy of many museums. the steel axe allowed for the making of many things that advanced our civilization very fast.
We are a special breed of people who get pumped when we see he uploaded something like this thanks for the uploads. Ps don't get all the treasure before I get down there and find some huge fan
Went to Gettysburg last week. The tour guid and my friends on the museum tour were very surprised with all of the knowledge I had about the artillery. I told them they have to checkout your videos. Thanks for the knowledge!
thanks for sharing your collection. Very cool finds. I check your channel every day for a new video. Thanks Bo
I love this kind of stuff, I live in a small town called Fort Erie, Ontario Canada along the shores of the Niagara River at the end of Lake Erie. Over the years I have found many many Indian Arrowheads, 1 8kg Cannon ball, a few small round I guess musket balls all about marble size. I found all of these by eye, I'm actually looking to buy my first detector this spring and have some fun hunting.
Awesome video, Please do a coin collection video! and or a American Indian artifact collection. Also civil war tokens and counterstamps haha.
very nice collection. would love to hear the conversations wile they were being used
Super cool - thanks for the upload. I love a nice axe - some of the double bits are nice, and the hatchets.
That was fascinating. You wouldn't think that there would be so many variations for such a utilitarian tool. Thank you
Great axe head collection. Thanks for showing them
Thanks for sharing your collection. I for one find it interesting and hope to see more collections in future videos.
Hope you do MOAR videos like this
I forgot to say just how beautiful the axe heads are! Thanks for sharing.
Interesting recording Chigg, always wondered about all the ax heads you collect, thanks 👍🙂
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing your collection with us.
I would love to see your war outfit doodats, like the belt buckles, buttons and anything else they wore on their clothes as a part of their uniform! Thanks so much, I love all your videos!
Hey there, love the axe video. That's quite a collection. One thing I thought might be of interest. When you find a piece of iron and it shows the wood grain like lines in it. There's a good chance it's wrought iron. Which is bloomer iron made in a big smelting furnace somewhere. They build a fire and add iron ore, more wood, more ore and so on. As the iron melts out of the ore it strings down toward the bottom, picture candle wax effect. Then when the firing is done it's pulled out and broke up and hammered into rods for the blacksmith. That is where the grain like structure comes in. Blah, blah kind of long winded I know. Thanks for sharing
OMG!!! I love love love the huge one in the middle (reminds me of an executioners ax) and the other large one to the left!!! Very impressive collection!! I LOVE old tools of any kind.
chug you are one decent human being. your a giant dork, or geek, I'm not sure but it's meant to be a term of affection. I am amazed at how cool it is to listen to you.
Dude, you need your own museum. AMAZING Collection. I got to meet Aud & Rach a few times this year. Maybe you one day. Wish I was going to PTG now.
thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have been watching all of your videos while recovering from major heart surgery.
I would enjoy more videos such as this one - for example uniform buttons.
Very cool! A very valuable tool back then and today. Thank you for the video.
That really big axe in the middle is a Hewing axe. They are used to flatten out a log to make straight sides on them.
Thank you I did find that interesting I worked out the oilfield and did a lot of digging and pipeline repair and I found very interesting stuff to numerous to talk about
that's a really nice collection historically speaking. those ones with the eye toward the back are very early. late 1700s turn of the century and likely English made. almost all of the other single bits are quite old as well. mid 1800s to 1920s american by the looks of them. the huge one is called a goose wing axe and it is for finishing when hewing. of the single bits though there are some nice examples of rare American patterns that I noticed. the bodies of all the axes with welded steel edges are going to be wrought iron. those vertical lines you see are silica inclusions in the iron, which were all aligned when the original piece of iron was made. I didn't request the video but I really appreciate it!
I think your channel is great.
Positive and clean. You make me feel proud know I was born in the USA.
Cool video, I love the huge axe!
Would be cool if you did some more of these for other items in your collection.
***** Nice!
I think they are great ! i have also found a couple, to think of all the people who used them is amazing and all the important purposes back in a time when fire wood was essential. Nothing like finding a big hunk of metal you can easily recognize either. Wonderful collection i enjoyed the share also :)
That is an awesome collection you got there Beau. I have found pieces of axes but not a single whole one. I did find today a piece to one of mine that makes it whole it's just in 2 pieces. I think finding old tools is great. I'm near some woods I can hunt one day so who knows maybe i'll get lucky and find a whole one! Keep up the great video's!
Fascinating video. That big axe looks almost exactly like the sort used in Medieval executions here in the UK. I'd like to see the range of more mundane items such as keys or ice skates like those on the wall behind you. Thanks for allowing us all to see your items but that must be a seriously strong table you have there.
your videos are really informative aquachigger, thanks.
that was cool I've never really thought much about axes before now, thanks for that!
Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful collection. That big one is a german goosewing axe, pretty old. Im just up the road in gburg if you ever want to pour over those in more detail. Also might be interested in a few if you ever want to unload them. Thank you so so so very much for taking the time to share them with us!! This will not be a popular comment but this might be one of my favorite videos you have done!!! Take care my friend!!
As someone that cut wood for eight wood stoves while growing up, I am always amused at how little Hollywood knows about axes. A double bit axe is used as a falling axe...to cut trees down. You have two sharp blades available. A single bit is versitile, it can be for limbing, light woodswork, light splitting and so on. A maul is for splitting heavy rounds of firewood. A hatchet is a real handy tool. You can cut kindling, do some light limbing, even cut meat up and use as a knife blade. Plumb hatchets (with a hammer on the back and a nail notch under the blade) is used in many trades. There used to be many more specific types of axes when things were done by hand. But they have faded away like my youth.
Have you ever been to the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pa? You would love it. An entire building filled with historic hand and land tools.
n8trsho I live right near there and I can say that it does have some really cool stuff that I think you would be interested in
Great video!! I just found my first axe head and this video was very educational.
FINALLY I GET TO SEE YOUR WEAPON COLLECTION!!!
That is amazing. Many of them can be restored and used beautifully. There is a lot of money sitting on that table.
I would love to see the guns and the coins all laid out! Now that would be awesome,hold your breath, LOL.
I was really looking forward to this video. Great Vid Chigg.
nice job sir.... have a few myself...all found in fields....definitely going to pick up a copy of that book...
That's a touch mark on the goose wing axe you were touching. The design comes from Germany, Pennsylvania Dutch and all. The small one that still has a remnant of a handle is a Hudson's bay company style belt axe. I don't know who made it but that's the style. It's also my favorite axe to forge though not the easiest.
Come to think of it, the Hudson's bay co. Axe is a form much older than the the trade. The design itself is from the late iron age. They were first made in the eibar region of spain. Pourtogese fishermen were the first to trade them to native Americans and by the time the English started trading that was the preferred design. In fact the English first got their trade stock from the Spanish because they were the people making the preferred product.
that huge is in the middle is amazing!!
Wranglerstar may be a person who has tool info if you need it
Chris Estabon I agree
Chris Estabon Wranglerstar is the man!!
Chris Estabon I love his videos, but I had to unsub when he started using clickbait, on principle. Every time I clicked on a video, it felt as though it'd make him feel it was the clickbait and not the content that made me watch. That made me feel like I'd fallen for a trick.
So does the book he showed us
As a blacksmith & a fan of tool restoration, that tableau makes me drool. Like 80% of these could be brought back to perfect working condition. And screw people who hate the idea of "ruining the patina" (But that's just my opinion).
I really really enjoyed this vid.
verdatum I agree I'm drooling over some of those axe heads
Same. Looking at this table i just want all of them to restore and polish them up
My drool is drooling drool.
they cannae be restored , because they are archaeology ,
I like the comment about iron turning to graphite. ..just found a 1755 French Canon ball (24 so far ). I can scrape the iron off, and really look like graphite, also, magnet barely stick to the cannon ball.. if you move the ball slightly, the magnet fall. I have one broken, magnet work well on the core..but not on the edge. Have a good week.
Nice video....I'd like to see a tour of your relic room and all of your finds worth putting on display.
I would be using some of them if I had them! Nice collection sir !
The bit slides into a wedge shaped opening that is then heated and hammered down by the smith or "forge welded". The grain is from very old wrought iron - very different from modern iron bars. Wrought nails could not be bent or clinched over because the grain ran staight across so they would break off - good way to id colonial hand wrought nails if you can't see the rose head.
These show and tell videos are great.
Awesome chig, now that's a cool video those axes helped built American.
hey thanks a lot man. I've been waiting for this video! what an awesome collections. you have some interesting pieces here.. the old Axe Heads are my favorite. I also like stuff like splitting mauls and sledgehammers. Any of those old tools with wooden handles. thanks again Bo. you Rock brother.
Thanks for doing this video. I love old axes. Some of those look pretty dang old!
Love all your videos please keep up the great work.
thanks for the great video, really enjoy what you do.
Awesome collection Mr, Chiggles
Who else want Chig to do a House Tour? Would love see his collections especially the guns. lol
Ikhs - Tutorials & More I love the civil war stuff. I am dabbling in Blacksmithing. I have around 20 axes but they are really not real old. 20: years maybe.
I also would love to see your whole collection
very interesting vid....old worn out tools are indeed beautiful pieces
Cool. I just sold one of those Hatchet heads. Thanks for the display.
Very interesting. I have a small collection of my own i've put together over the years here on my family farm. Always finding an ax head in the most random places.
Nothing like the collection you have but i like the fact each one has a story.
Thanks for sharing.
TN.
I love that you found a 1760 Goose Wing Germanic Northern Pennsylvania axe head that Eric Sloane had in his book. What a story it must have and where you found it. That axe is a work of art in my book. I think of the man who used it and how he used it. I can only imagine that he died and it fell out of his hand. It is too special too leave his side. Each of these heads have a story. I am glad they are in your hands. Hold the axe and think of the man or woman who used it. Thanks for sharing! RWB
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Hey Chig, Love the fact that you are showing use parts of your collection and giving us and idea what some of the items are. I would however like to ask if you could take us on a tour of you collection and the space you display it in. I have cought glimpes of it in some of your videos and it looks like you have your own mesuem going there. once more I love your videos and look forward to each new arriving in my in box. And remember HOLD YOUR BREATH! With warm Regards Eric Furgeson.
thanks for showing us your collections. it would be great to see a video of your belt buckles you found.
At Red Top Mountain Pioneer Days you can see interesting things like these. It is in Cartersville Georgia but don't know when it is this year.
I love these types of videos. It’s really cool to see all the different things they used and stuff. Very cool that u are able to find that many. I’m going to try and find that gun video. That’s interesting to me too! Do you have an online museum? That would be awesome.
A video about all your unidentified oddities would be really cool.
nice collection i have a dozen or so , love your videos
Very impressive collection. Great video.
Love to see a tour of your relics room; although, I understand if you don't want to, etc.
Great video! I have a few axe heads I need to go back and get.
hey aquachigger! i would love to see your whole collection of everything u ever found! i think tht would be amazing! i love watching ur videos on ur channel and hope to see tht video on TH-cam some day soon!
Beau I've got an idea for upcoming video/s if you haven't done it all ready. Maybe you can talk about what got you into metal detecting and treasure hunting, what year you started? first major find? Scariest thing ever found? Q and A maybe? Etc. maybe you could even talk about those topics Over some old detecting videos you're not sure what to do with??
glad you answered the questions I would ax myself about
Love that crazy sense of humor.
Thanks again for sharing, quite the history you have in front of you and your videos never disappoint! Very nice collection and look at all the relics skirting your walls 😁 🤙 Cheers, #SeattleRingHunter
I'm not the average viewer. therefore I'm really excited.
The big one is a hewing axe. The handle is offset to allow the beard to stay flat on the wood rather than digging deeper.
Some of the older axe heads were forged as a single blade and folded over a form where the handle will be. Then the two halves of the blade were welded together by the blacksmith . This may be what you are seeing as a hardened steel extension at the blade. Also those that were collapsed at the handle hole were probably used as a splitting wedge after they were worn out.