I can't think off the top of my head when i've ever had to split something as small as 4in diameter, in the field i'd either baton it down if it was a soft wood or i'd find a smaller piece of wood.
With regard to being popular, i have not found that to be the case in the places i've visited.
If you were gutting a wooden canoe then you certainly wouldn't want a big axe for that job, but then how many canoes are hand made out of tree trunks around the world every year?
An axe to me is a tool for splitting and cutting wood.
A small axe is dangerous in that when you swing down any deflection puts it on course with your legs.
As a bigger axe can do 99% what a smaller axe can do then more, i'm kinda left thinking it's a billy no mates with very little usefulness.
No shouting i just believe that many here see someone using something then jump on the bandwagon.
Often there are very few people that stand up and take another side, so the op only really gets 1 opinion.
Hiking with an axe might make you feel like victor the viking while out, but i offer that it has very little outdoors use and that danger of a shorter swing outweighs any of those uses.
You disagree but the op's mate would no doubt agree.
With regard to being popular, i have not found that to be the case in the places i've visited.
If you were gutting a wooden canoe then you certainly wouldn't want a big axe for that job, but then how many canoes are hand made out of tree trunks around the world every year?
An axe to me is a tool for splitting and cutting wood.
A small axe is dangerous in that when you swing down any deflection puts it on course with your legs.
As a bigger axe can do 99% what a smaller axe can do then more, i'm kinda left thinking it's a billy no mates with very little usefulness.
No shouting i just believe that many here see someone using something then jump on the bandwagon.
Often there are very few people that stand up and take another side, so the op only really gets 1 opinion.
Hiking with an axe might make you feel like victor the viking while out, but i offer that it has very little outdoors use and that danger of a shorter swing outweighs any of those uses.
You disagree but the op's mate would no doubt agree.