Does anyone take an axe on their tours?

[samid]

It happened to me. Didn't bother me in the slightest. To the OP - they carried it all the way across Canada and hardly used it.

Us Canadians ... we hardly ever go anywhere without our axes ... gives that warm and fuzzy feeling

 

[andym]

Us Canadians ... we hardly ever go anywhere without our axes ... gives that warm and fuzzy feeling

Comes in handy if you forget your keys.

 

[ufkacbln]

Get a recumbent trike, they come with a built in chainsaw at the front

Get someone to hold the back off the ground, and pedal away like mad whilst someone feeds logs into the front chainring!

 

[JackE]

This: http://www.axminster.co.uk/vaughan-vaughan-hatchet-prod20445/#bottomsection is a very neat and light (225 gms) US made axe. In my work I use Vaughan hammers regularly and they are superb tools.

 

[guitarpete247]

I've always fancied one of these to take on holiday.

 

[Banjo]

You can get a wire saw that is very light and efficient.It is a wire with cutting teeth and a ring each end to hold it with.They are used in survival kits etc.

Wire Saw

 

[vernon]

You can get a wire saw that is very light and efficient.It is a wire with cutting teeth and a ring each end to hold it with.They are used in survival kits etc.

Wire Saw

I found one to be light but not particularly efficient.

Survival kits promise more than they deliver. I wouldn't like my life to depend on the contents of one.

 

[Brains]

As for a chainsaw - it does look good but the problem is where to get gas for it - or does it run on meths?

The chain saw I proposed in an earlier post runs on Grease, elbow grease.
It is a readily available commodity usually found in wild camp sites and on cycle tours
The only shortage seems to occur early in the morning and late at night

 

[peelywally]

i just snap wood by stamping on it ,

strange question

 

[Khalid365]

A fender stratocaster is a bit fragile, but I know of a guy who travels with a Tuba!

lol I thought he meant guitar as well when I opened up the thread.

 

[frank9755]

To the OP:

You don't say if you have toured in the UK before but, nowadays, lighting a camp fire would be considered a bit unusual and anti-social. I think that is one of the reasons you are getting lots of non-serious responses

The only people I can recall seeing with a fire were a group of wild campers in a remote part of central Wales who were getting ready for an illegal rave which then kept the whole valley awake for most of the night.

 

[ufkacbln]

To the OP:

You don't say if you have toured in the UK before but, nowadays, lighting a camp fire would be considered a bit unusual and anti-social. I think that is one of the reasons you are getting lots of non-serious responses

The only people I can recall seeing with a fire were a group of wild campers in a remote part of central Wales who were getting ready for an illegal rave which then kept the whole valley awake for most of the night.

The sheep of today have absolutely no musical taste!

 

[Brains]

To the OP:

You don't say if you have toured in the UK before but, nowadays, lighting a camp fire would be considered a bit unusual and anti-social. I think that is one of the reasons you are getting lots of non-serious responses

The only people I can recall seeing with a fire were a group of wild campers in a remote part of central Wales who were getting ready for an illegal rave which then kept the whole valley awake for most of the night.

It depends where you camp.

There are well over 500 Scout and Guide camp sites in the UK - I have never seen one without a fire. (As I'm a Leader we have often used them even when touring without Scouts etc in tow)

I have a number of 'where to camp' type of books, 'fires' is usually one of the check list items, a suprising amound of the sites do permit fires (often with named restrictions, such as use an altar etc). after all there is very little difference betwen an open alter fire and a BBQ

I have also done a lot of wild and stealth camping, if a fire is possible and we can hide all trace so that within a few days no one would ever know, then we have had fires.

My Mother tells a story of how she went on her first foreign cycle tour in Normandy/northern France in the very early 1950's. They set up camp the first night on a camp site and started building the fire to cook on and were amazed when the owner arrived with a bucket of water and put it out. They had been touring in the UK a number of times before and had always cooked over an open fire. They had pots and pans but no stove. The owner then sold them a Gaz Stove, they had never seen a gas powered stove before that point. They were amazed to see that all French camp sites had 'no fires' rules, whereas English ones at the time would have expected you to cook ove an open fire and would not have sold items such as camping gaz. How things change

 

[vernon]

Here's a link to list of camp sites that allow fires.

For what it's worth, it was the presence of campfires on this camp site that drew my attention to its presence as I was cycling in the dusk in Wales on a road the was at a much higher elevation..

I rate it as one of the best camp sites that i've ever stayed at:

Almost on the beach, great views, lulled to sleep by the sound of the sea.....

 

[Gotte]

Not sure it's exactly a real axe, but it might do at a push -

http://www.clasohlso...px?id=156354045

I've not seen it in the flesh, and am always dubious about these kind of cheap multi tools, but you never know. I bought a cheap stove off them which is actually the best meths stove I've got.

Did see this as well, which looks quite groovy, if any good. Of course, only from the states, so a bit of a pain getting it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/5-in...810QQptZOtherQ5fVehicleQ5fParts#ht_1429wt_939

Personally, I'd just go for one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bahco-396-L...X7OW/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1295985478&sr=8-9