Mississippi Dispersed Camping, De Soto National Forest: Fantastic Fatwood Broke My Axe Blade!
Mississippi Dispersed Camping, De Soto National Forest: Fantastic Fatwood Broke My Axe Blade!
Impromptu dispersed camping in Mississippi, De Soto National Forest, Black Creek Wilderness Area during a rainy night and day with cool temperatures. Broke my axe blade during a bountiful fatwood harvest. Any recommendations for an all around quality axe for cutting firewood, bushcrafting, camp chores, and surviving the zombie apocalypse?
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Damn, broke your axe of that Mississippi fat wood. Gotta get me some of that me fatwood
Thanks for the video, SS. Fat wood is the stuff!
Great video
Fatwood so resinous it breaks an ax. That was some good looking stuff! Beautiful park, and sweet camp brother!
Another awesome trip. thanks.
No wolfs in Mississippi
Fat wood….lmap! Sorry bro but I’ve gotta ask….where are you from?
Enjoyed the video. I have been on the trail before but never camped it. Im about 1 hour from it. Thanks for the videos.
put wood under tent keep some dry
Im from Mississippi. A rule of thumb that anybody from here will can tell you, !!!NEVER!!! stick your hand in a hollow log here.
Natural Cover and Concealment !!
What is fatwood?
Lots of skunks in that area. Watch out.
WD40 will clean that saw. Send this video to Stihl and ask them for a replacement axe.
I love impromptu adventure….with no knowledge of the area and seriously test my own skills. What you’ve shown here are the kind that I truly like boss. VERY AWESOME INDEED. Thanks for sharing your adventure. /joel
Great video!
The Stihl ax specification lists C60 steel as the alloy which is an international spec. This alloy is usually made for forgings that require wear resistance. The failure mode on your tool looks like brittle fracture. IMO the thinner profile axe heads require a steel that features high impact strength and toughness like 1055 for an inexpensive ax like an Estwing or an alloy like S7 for a premium tool like the Outland Multi-Mission Axe 1902. The cost difference between the 1055 and the S7 for an ax product is about 10x.
The gray wolf (Canis lupus or Canis lupus lycaon) was native to Mississippi but was eradicated by European settlers. The edangered red wolf (Canis lupus rufus) is also native and still occurs occasionally as a coyote hybrid. There are locations in Miss named for wolves such as Neshoba County, Wolf River and Wolf lake. Note that the river (Rivière du Loup) was named after the Wolf Tribe of the indigenous American Mohican nation local to Miss. This was after a Wolf (Loup) guide led French explorers along the river. Neshoba is the Choctaw Band word for gray wolf.
Happy Thanksgiving!
What happened to your voice man?!
Looked like a real good time. Thanks for sharing.
Fat wood….lmap! Sorry bro but I’ve gotta ask….where are you from?
What is that fire rod you use? Is it just sparks or is the magnesium or something combined?
How many times he say fat wood lol
might want to get a thicker axe for the next time you chip into that fatwood log
Axe is not too thin, it is too much China.
Nice video.
That’s right in my neck of the woods. I’m planning on doing a weekend campout or two there this spring.
Liking your style, cracking intro with the large sheets of bark .All best Will 🙄
I live in Mississippi. Great to see you enjoying nature. Great Video!!
Awesome video sir!
if i hadda vehicle it would worry me 2 death leaving it at a trailhead, i travel by bicycle and i sometimes take it back into the woods and cover and camouflage it real good plus locking wheels and frame to a good size tree, still not at peace..
Spectacular. Thank you.
That was a bad temper on your axe, Should’ve never happened! Brittle!
My Dude!!! Real world vid!!!
Nice video never been in that area, thanks for sharing…hope you have a great Thanksgiving
I’d say bad Chinese temper job on that axe. Should not have broken like that.
It’s a really beautiful place. Nice to not have any people around some peace and quiet. You should be able to open a fatwood store…LOL. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
I have cut that hard fat pine with a double bit axe and never broke one bad metal on your axe
Liked thé comment,when I have dreams
Good vid just subbed from UK
They should replace it, I saw no abuse….Ive busted a lot of fat wood in my time but I usually had a heavy splitting ax, yours looks like a sharpe chopping ax, but I still think you just had a flawed ax head, it happens, they should replace that without any problem.
What exactly is the difference between heartwood and fat wood? Do any of your videos talk about this? Thanks