Man, great video! I’m on the east coast, NY actually and Jerseys were made for this area! Now I have had to do some serious filing and what not to get my no-bevel CT Jersey axe to throw chips but boy does it ever! ESP in regular white oak (which is the majority type of wood near me, and tons of pine, we have the Pine Barrens east of me!) I have that Jersey on a Handmade 30” straight handle, it stays in my truck! But my main user is an old TT Kelly woodslasher 3.5# Jersey I put on a 28” house SB handle - and again, had to do some serious filing (not as much as previous Jersey) but it’s got a MUCH LONGER bit and chunks wood! I collect Collins Vtg axes, so ofc I have some 3-1/2# jerseys but don’t really use them - but on the way, I have a 4# Kelly Perfect head (figuring what handle I want on it?) and 2- CT beveled Jerseys I just got in the WRT auction…looking forward to see how different the two 32” beveled jerseys will be - iirc one is a 2024 and the other late 2023? Thinking of making one my daily user/splitting chopper and the other, putting on a 22-24” house axe handle for my wood stove? We shall see. Love the videos and the axe talks my man! Keep getting out there and do the things the guys like me, can’t, because we live in suburbia and don’t have access to woods and forests! Have a great day! Forgot to mention my first ever axe, given to me by my father and it was my grandfather and uncles axe, on my Moms side is a Plumb (near the pole) stamped 3/2 Jersey with the “jet wings” as Plumb calls them - and that sucker can split! But bc it was my first restoration project, I flapped wheeled the thing into existance and discovered a crack Coming from the heel side of the eye up - so it doesn’t get used anymore. Nate, from Iron Ox and Tool, on YT has another and is trading me shortly! So looking forward to having many Jersey options to compare (and some def fall in the category of hybrid like a Baltimore/Kentucky/jersey!
Thank you for the kind words. And big Plumb fan here. Never met a Plumb I didn't like. Awesome ax makers. My absolute favorite, though, is a little Plumb cruiser. It doesn't know it's little!!! Tries to keep up with the big boys. I have not yet been able to comprehend how many variables are at play, why two axes with similar design and exact same bit grind can be so distinctly different in performance. I'm in a friend's grove for the red pine work. Much left to do there. And HECK of a lot of joy in falling those 20" 60-footers. Good luck to you -- and hope you find yourself a friendly farmer or homesteader with a grove! We'd leave his red pines standing but, Extension Office rules here are, "If it's brown, it must come down -- and burn it." (Or it spreads disease).
Man, great video! I’m on the east coast, NY actually and Jerseys were made for this area! Now I have had to do some serious filing and what not to get my no-bevel CT Jersey axe to throw chips but boy does it ever! ESP in regular white oak (which is the majority type of wood near me, and tons of pine, we have the Pine Barrens east of me!)
I have that Jersey on a Handmade 30” straight handle, it stays in my truck!
But my main user is an old TT Kelly woodslasher 3.5# Jersey I put on a 28” house SB handle - and again, had to do some serious filing (not as much as previous Jersey) but it’s got a MUCH LONGER bit and chunks wood!
I collect Collins Vtg axes, so ofc I have some 3-1/2# jerseys but don’t really use them - but on the way, I have a 4# Kelly Perfect head (figuring what handle I want on it?) and 2- CT beveled Jerseys I just got in the WRT auction…looking forward to see how different the two 32” beveled jerseys will be - iirc one is a 2024 and the other late 2023?
Thinking of making one my daily user/splitting chopper and the other, putting on a 22-24” house axe handle for my wood stove? We shall see. Love the videos and the axe talks my man! Keep getting out there and do the things the guys like me, can’t, because we live in suburbia and don’t have access to woods and forests! Have a great day!
Forgot to mention my first ever axe, given to me by my father and it was my grandfather and uncles axe, on my Moms side is a Plumb (near the pole) stamped 3/2 Jersey with the “jet wings” as Plumb calls them - and that sucker can split! But bc it was my first restoration project, I flapped wheeled the thing into existance and discovered a crack
Coming from the heel side of the eye up - so it doesn’t get used anymore.
Nate, from Iron Ox and Tool, on YT has another and is trading me shortly! So looking forward to having many Jersey options to compare (and some def fall in the category of hybrid like a Baltimore/Kentucky/jersey!
Thank you for the kind words. And big Plumb fan here. Never met a Plumb I didn't like. Awesome ax makers. My absolute favorite, though, is a little Plumb cruiser. It doesn't know it's little!!! Tries to keep up with the big boys. I have not yet been able to comprehend how many variables are at play, why two axes with similar design and exact same bit grind can be so distinctly different in performance. I'm in a friend's grove for the red pine work. Much left to do there. And HECK of a lot of joy in falling those 20" 60-footers. Good luck to you -- and hope you find yourself a friendly farmer or homesteader with a grove! We'd leave his red pines standing but, Extension Office rules here are, "If it's brown, it must come down -- and burn it." (Or it spreads disease).