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If, you use the poll or back surface of the head of an axe with a wooden handle for pounding anything, you WILL open the "eye" and subsequently the handle will never stay tight. Many then submerge the whole axe in water, an amateur's method of further f****g things up.
For HORSE use, alone, I WOULD consider the Estwing and tightly wrap the helve (handle) from the end of the blue plastic wrapper to an inch below the head with ordinary vinyl electrician's tape....helps cut down the vibrations if chopping through a 14" EK down and dry Dougy Fir....NOT FUN!
You can also buy a 24" Swede saw by Sandvik to carry, weighs nothing, has a knuckle protector and cuts like Thor's magic axe, "Mjollnir".
I know jack about horses, but, a little bit about the bush and cutting wood, after growing up in Nelson in the '50s and early '60s, in a large, uninsulated house heated by two wood heaters. My first Lookout in '67 at Fernie was wood heat and cooking as well, nothing like a "sheepherder" stove cooking your dinner when it is 95* and the "hazard" is "Extreme".....sweats a little lard off!!!
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