Looking to fell a tree or need a chopping tool for your next camping trip? Whatever the job, we've got the perfect axes and hatchets for it.
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Best Axe for Splitting Wood
Fiskars’ iconic orange handle is not just for scissors anymore. With a non-slip grip on its handle and a power-to-weight ratio expertly calibrated for splitting wood, the Fiskars X27 Super Splitting Axe will help you chop through your firewood faster and easier than ever. It weighs just under six pounds, so your back won’t ache quite as much after a day of work at the woodpile.
Best Axe for Backpacking
When you’re packing supplies for a backpacking trip, traveling light is essential. At a feathery 1.44 lbs., the Schrade SCAXE2 is a useful and worthwhile addition that won’t weigh you down. When it comes to versatile survival tools, you won’t find much lighter than the SCAXE2.
Best Axe for Gardening
Need to hack and slash your way through a garden that’s too unruly and unpruned? Fiskars 18-in. Clearing Hatchet is perfectly suited for chopping through any vines, roots and branches in your way. It doesn’t just hack and slash, either. The axe blade has a sharpened curve on the interior that makes quick pull-cuts simple to execute.
Best Axe for Camping
If you’re the kind of camper who scoffs at the idea of “glamping,” then this axe is for you. Estwing’s 26-inch Blue Campers Axe is made for people who like to rough it. It’s even got a special groove built into the top of its forged steel head specifically for pulling tent stakes out of the ground. If you’re bringing an axe on your next camping trip, make it this one.
Best Axe for Felling Trees
Every Hults Bruk Atran Felling Axe is hand-forged from Swedish steel in a forge that has been in operation since the late 1600s. Made to take down small to mid-size trees, the axe has a durable 3.5-lb. steel head that is struck multiple times in the forging process to increase its density and resilience.
