We call our Allagash Cruiser a "camp axe." But we frequently get folks adamantly saying, "it's really a boy's axe!" Well, they are right. But a "boy's axe" is not made for children. It is a term used to describe axes of a certain size.
Boy's axes may also be referred to as forest axes, cruisers, camp axes, or a half axes.
The specifications of our Allagash Cruiser fits right into the boy's axe category. Boy's axes are considered axes which have:
- axe heads that weigh between 2.25 and 2.75 pounds, and
- handles with a length of 24"- 28"
Our Allagash Cruiser has a 2.5 lb. head forged from 1050 U.S. made carbon steel and hung on a 28" Amish-turned hickory handle.
What makes this size axe so popular (and why we make one) is that it can be used to chop decent sized logs, limbing, and splitting quartered wood and kindling. Great around the home hearth or fire pit or out camping. A perfect all around axe!
So don't let the name "boy's axe" throw you. These are very powerful tools. We have arborists using their Allagash Cruiser boy's axe to limb and drive wedges, loggers using them to get through deadfalls on logging roads, and Maine guides relying on them in the wilderness.
So get out there! And if you need an Allagash Cruiser CAMP axe (aka boys axe) you can find one for sale here!