Which one wins this week's price matching competition: Aldi or Bunnings?
- Forged head
- Fiberglass handle
- Lightweight and compact
- 12 month warranty
- Soft grip handle
The Saxon 450g hatchet is strong and compact making it a perfect camping companion or use on smaller logs and kindling. The drop forged head is made from carbon steel with a strong, lightweight fiberglass handle.
I had got this for almost same price last year.
I've got one. Bought it many years ago for camping, for probably about the same price.
They're not great - they come fairly blunt and they could definitely use a sharpening, particularly for harder stuff.
That said, they're $10. So for what it costs, it does the job.
So anyone buying this would have an axe to grind?
I own one. Wouldn't buy it again.
Easy: Bunnings wins this round.
Why: It comes with a safety cover + Cheaper by 1c. :P
Aldi's has a rubber safety cover too (I'm looking at it).
In that case, it is a tie. =)
Depends. Is the cover 1c better?
Good for home defense or Daniel Boone impressions
Is this OzBargain or AxeBargain?
(ba dum tish)
Sharp pun
Cutting edge material, right here
Are these straight outta Dogtown?
Smash, smash, smash!
i didn't know i needed an axe, now i have 2 choices between aldi and bunnings. which one do i buy?
Why not both? 🤷🏻♂️
damn you. i never needed 1. now have 2. FML
saxon = worst brand for everything they make, be a waste of money
buy fiskars or something better quality
fiskars lasts a decade or more
saxon lucky 3 months and it wont cut well. go buy a $20 saxon log splitter and tell me how good it is (it doesnt even cut wood)
do the math you will be worse off
like ryobi/ozito (crap) tools vs makita (good
ozito chainsaw vs stihl etc
Log splitters are designed to split logs along the grain. They don't need to be particularly sharp. A heavy head and decent flared sides help, but I've split logs with a decade old splitter that looked like it had been used as sledge hammer. Worked fine.
@banana365: i dont doubt 'saxon' is a shit brand but this axe is like… TWO parts… how hard can they mess things up
further bunnings has a no quible return policy
for $10 as long as the head doesnt fly off the handle and it still caves in skulls… i mean branches then… ok?
@tonyjzx: wait till you use it as a day to day product, and not just once a blue moon.
the time you lose using saxon products is alot, and the crap just brakes.
if your cutting a bit of wood here and there maybe ok, but it will be useless after 3 months with repetitive use.
wait till you use it as a day to day product
Not gonna happen, I promise.
not just once a blue moon.
Yep, that's me. Just need it to prune some tree overgrowth every now and then.
if your cutting a bit of wood here and there maybe ok
Ok, but Saxon or Aldi?
Ok, but Saxon or Aldi?
Honestly, at this price point the quality difference would be negligible. I'd just make my choice by the handle, ALDI is contoured and Bunnings isn't so whichever you prefer. You may want to turn it around and bludgeon things every now and then so I'd prefer Bunnings
This is absolutely the best advice. Expensive upfront but Fiskars have 25 year warranties. I use the X27 and maul together and they just shit all over anything else I've tried. Broke the head off the cheap saxon log splitter on some old mountain ash where I'd have to mess around with wedges, Fiskars maul just goes through it. This hatchet won't go very far
@AngryAlfred: yep i cut up 6 tonnes of ironbark last march with a fiskars and was a piece of pi$$ (well still took a while and my back killed), but originally bought the saxon one and it was next to useless. now just in shed taking up space.
even saxon star pickets and whipper snipper cable is crap
just my thoughts living on acreage and using a lot if different tools.
i like a bargain but the $20 saxon log splitter is worthless, so i'd say the axe would be too, hence the price
saxon pitchfork is bargain at $12.50. Reading the bunnings reviews you wouldn't think so, but mine is strong as. Possibly poor quality control.
yeh not much can wrong with a pitch fork I guess
Mine became virtually useless after one weekend camping with pretty light use on a few branches. It could barely cut butter it's that blunt. Would definitely look at fiskars on my next go around.
Yeah, Saxon is pretty average. I'm on my 3rd Saxon shovel bc I broke the handle on the 1st two, but then I learnt its limit, and don't break it anymore (I also didn't pay that much then; more like $10-12). I tried another brand, paying 3x more, but I can't dig with it; it's too wide.
F3CK Bunnings, support Aldi!!
Imagine brigading for one multinational against another.
Bunnings is a blatant monopoly masquerading as a cut price warehouse, Aldi saved us from the ColesWorth duopoly. You do you mate but I know who I'd rather support.
Just don't mention ze war
Do not confuse a for-profit company as someone with your best intentions at heart.
If you REALLY wanted to support an important business, you'd buy a hatchet for RRP or above from a local/independent business instead, knowing that your additional expenses would go to employees and small business owners in your community.
ALDI is not your friend, don't be a shill.
Norman Price - Cut price supermarket- ponty pandy
Another one for the zombies
Saw this for $5 the other day at my local, 3 or 4 on the 'get rid of rack'.
no bargain ;)
Who negged you? Why?? You didn't even neg the deal! This unexplained negging oughta stop, Mods!
Saw this for $5 the other day at my local
"Local" what; Bunnings?
This one would be my choice to cleft thine foot in twain.
I had an experience recently where my widowed neighbour had a garage sale for her husbands stuff including tools. They were a motley assortment of rusty stuff. It got me thinking how a decent set of tools kept in good nick can make a good heirloom. May sound silly buying a tool for a future generation but it sounds like a Fiskar might still be hacking wood in 50 years. Your kids will thank you for getting quality kit. Weird angle I know. But felt like a strange long term view versus just a year or two.
Could use either of them on the bunnings fire wood that doesn't burn (in the white bag).
What was the original price?
Does anyone know if it’s any good?