www.indiegogo.com/projects/noa-all-in-one-transforming-forest-axe
NOA: All-in-One Transforming Forest Axe
That is some nice detective work.
Just searched for "camp axe" and it's in the top 3.
That screwed-on tubular aluminum handle will break the first time you try to use your $100 hatchet. Whether that happens before or after the stupid tang-less knife blade snaps its spot weld to the handle is up to the user.
Yeah. If using it to chop, generally easier to chop wood at an angle, so the head is going to twist. So every few chops probably find have to tighten the threads.
I was telling my pilot friend about a car that transformed into an airplane. He wagered that it would neither be a good car or airplane.
Isnt the Osprey a VTOL trying to be a helicopter and a plane but the thing its best at is killing the people piloting it?
Used to be. But that was mostly poor or rushed training. They took helicopter pilots and gave them a few months to become VTOL pilots and one of the biggest issues that caused trouble was dealing with twin rotor wash. They’d roll into a turn and into the rotor wash of the second propeller and it would cause a crash.
We rode in one on deployment and my friend said “wow they really took the worst parts of riding in a plane and riding in a helicopter and combined them”
But they are faster than helicopters, have longer range, and still retain vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
What's the benefit here, even in theory? The weight savings of the knife handle?
But a fibreglass handled hatchet is going to be lighter than this with the leather handle covering and all that, and an additional knife will do everything this does, and better, at the same weight, I suspect
Ok, so a carpentry hatchet with a swiss army knife in your pocket would be more useful? And way less expensive.
You could even take a hollow steel handled hatchet and add a door on the bottom for the knife.
wh- why is one of the photos a dude's face?!
Shit's probably autogenerated. They just bung pre-existing Chinese products into websites like Indiegogo and then don't bother to really maintain them or check them.
I had one of these (brother got it as a gag gift off amazon) and I lost it somewhere, it's either hidden somewhere in my car or along the interstate shoulder in new mexico. It wasn't very sturdy or well built
Get yours from AliExpress for $32 today!
I had one identical to this sans the leather sheath. Those two hex bolts that fasten the head to the handle will sheer off almost instantly. I got it at a pawn shop new for like 10$
I'd love it if they didn't demonstrate by throwing it into live trees. I'm sure there's some deadfall nearby that would've been just fine.
If that tree is dead, my guy needs to move his tent.
Looks distinctly similar to an already existing product.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004801601886.html