Re: Military ax?

From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 12:41:37 PST


Just for fun check the prices for Collins axe heads on
E-bay.

Do you know how hard it is to find a decent axe in the
USA these days? It's IMPOSSIBLE!!

Joe

I still split my firewood with an axe.

--- Nigel Hay MILWEB <nigel@milweb.net> wrote:

> I am pretty sure that "True Temper" are the sought
> after WW2 axes? But of
> course they still make tools etc now.....
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> NIGEL HAY
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of candlewickjeep2@webtv.net
> Sent: 13 March 2006 19:17
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] Military ax?
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> Sounds like I wasn't specific enough.....
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> Military vehicles commonly have pioneer racks,
> brackets, or other
> provisions to hold an ax, a shovel, and sometimes a
> pick mattock. I am
> aware that some are specifically manufactured for
> military use. I don't
> believe that most MV's were furnished from the local
> retailer. I simply
> wondered if there was a way to tell military from
> civilian, other than
> green paint.
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> Thank you,
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