www.warriorsandwonders.com has what your looking for ,I believe they are out of Canada ...most likely your best option ... they have the axe your looking for in stock .. : )
I'd skip the swedish axes for use in rough country. Yes they are sharp and hold and edge, but the trade off is a very hard and brittle edge, easy to chip. Stick with a cheap Fiskars. They are sharp, have a light plastic handle and lifetime warranty as well.
A good folding saw is a good alternative to cut up pecker poles in rounds or chop down small dead trees.
Does anyone make a quality machete with a saw on the back?
I for one cant imagine what a $300 axe does that my $60 fiskar can't.
My crappy $25 gerber machete/saw is handy af. I'd take it over an axe for sure. The saw works, not great but I have cut up 6" diameter trees with it. It's not fast like my folder or bow saw but it does cut what's too big to chop.
Of aomeone makes a good alternative, that would be my choice. In fact if anyone knows of a good combo unit, please enlighten me as I am interested.
Buy yourself a estwing light and tough
That's cause you probably haven't used a good axe.
A fiskars axe feels and performs like a sledgehammer after you've used a good quality axe - they are poorly balanced and and take twice the effort to get the same result as a well made forest axe. There is a huge difference.
Even the cheap cold steel forest axe will cut circles around a fiskars & has better steel. They are good for camp axes - cheap and tough.
Get a quality folding saw or arborist type saw Silky with a scabbard. Also buy a BK9 great around a camp and you can baton the BK9 with a chunk of wood and split wood up. Try Warriors and Wonders for all things knives and I think they may even have folding saws
Arctic Lake
I own several Gransfors, a couple Husquvarna and a couple Fiskars.
I hate to say it, but I think the Fiskars splitting maul is as good or better than any of my forged heirloom pieces. It took me a long time to warm up to it but it is weirdly efficient at splitting.
I have a Fiskars hatchet too and it sucks compared to my Gransfors axes. Every Gransfors I've bought has come sharp enough to pop hairs off my arm. A wicked sharp axe is a hell of a tool in the right hands.
Is Justin Competent, or just incompetent?