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Top Bushcraft Survival Axes, Machetes, and Saws
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items When your out in the bush, your gonna want a warm fire, you may also want to build a shelter, or even just have the tools to clear a path through some rough terrain. Here are some of my top suggestions for the axes, machetes, and saws to help you do ...
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Axes
This axe is unique n that the head can be removed easily in the field and can have the handle replaced easily as well.
HUDSON BAY CAMP AXE - Cold Steel
This is one of my favorite pack axes! It's a sturdy axe for many of the wood cutting and splitting tasks you may need it for in camp!
Snow & Nealley Website | American-Made Axes Since 1860
Built like a woodworking axe, but fitted with a head that has features that help split wood! This hatchet is perfect for camp and woodcraft. With its bearded blade head and its wooden handle you can choke upon the palm swell and do carving and woodwo...
WICING 14.2" Camping Hatchet with Sheath
Probably my favorite axe at the moment! I love Hudson Bay style blades and this one combined with its shortened 22 inch handle is perfect for packing out into the deep woods. It doesn’t hurt that it screams bushcraft and mountain man all over in its ...
Snow & Nealley Hudson Bay Axe
This was one of my first hatchet purchases when I started getting heavily into bushcraft and survival content creation. I’ve used it in many occasions and it’s never let me down.
Marbles Camp Axe MR701SB
Machetes
This is one of my best suggestions for a machete! The springy 5160 steel gives this large 10 inch blade what it needs to chop over and over again into hard wood and small trees. I've used it in camp sights for clearing brush, splitting and processing...
RTAK-II – OntarioKnife
It’s called a hatchet, but it looks like a machete! Whatever you want to call it, you can chop a tree, brush, or even use it in meat processing. With its swept forward design you’ll be able to apply plenty of force where needed.
Silky NATA Hatchet Outback Edition 240mm (756-24)
The Woodmans pal is a unique style machete that combines attributes from other woodsman tools. It has the curved hook on the back for hooking and cutting small saplings, the heavy upper part of the blade for chopping like a hatchet, and the longer po...
Woodmans Pal 284 Multi-Use Axe Machete
It’s a shortened version of the original Junglas giving you a lighter more compact version of the original
ESEE JUNGLAS Survival Knife w/ Kydex Sheath
You just can’t beat the original Junglas! It’s huge and gives its user a lot of chopping, slashing, and cutting power in their hand! Be a force to be reckoned with, in the bush, with this huge blade in your hand!
ESEE ESJUNGLAS-BRK Junglas Knife, Black,Steel
Bought this little machete back when I first started creating bushcraft content. Thought it would be a good little starter machete, an old beater really, to make some content with. After a few years I’ve made content, carried in numerous outings, and...
Tramontina Machete Wood
Saws
This is one of the smaller folding saws, almost a pocket folding saw. It is has a pretty powerful cutting capability for such a small saw blade. It is revered worldwide for its craftsmanship, simplistic design, and practical usage features.
Opinel Folding Carbon Steel Saw with Beechwood Handle
The Gomboy is one of the most popular of the Silky line of folding saws. Silky is known for its folding saws world wide. These Japanese folding saws are some of the best bushcraft folding saws you’re gonna find.
Silky GomBoy Curve Folding Saw 210mm
Gerber decided to enter into the bushcraft market after some of its knives became bushcraft staples. One of their more fruitful attempts was this folding bow saws. It’s tough and gets the job done, it’s slightly more compact than other folding bow sa...
Gerber Freescape Folding Camp Saw 12"
This is one of the top folding bow saws in the bushcraft market, I couldn’t not add it to the list because so many of the most famous bushcrafters suggesting and use it.
AGAWA BOREAL21 21" Folding Bow Saw Black
This is probably my best suggestion for a small folding pull saw. I’ve used it for years and it’s never let me down. I even bent it one time but just bent the blade back straight and kept using it.
Bahco 9" Laplander Folding Saw, Rust-Protected, Ergonomic Grip