The repair job I did on the Chopper 1 axe gave out on me today.

It only took a few minutes to rework the spring and attach it to the splitting finger, but the short interval between repairs tells me that I should try to find a smaller replacement spring closer to the size of the original one which is still doing its job on the other finger with no signs of slowing down.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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