The Heiman Hatchet Explained

The Heiman Hatchet is manufactured from high carbon steel that is hardened and tempered. It’s finished with a high temperature ceramic coating of Cerekote. Leaving a smooth and functional finish, these characteristics minimise the likelihood of corrosion while increasing the blade’s durability. These factors combine to make the Heiman Hatchet your survival blade for life.

The Heiman Hatchet is available in two colours – Tac Black for minimal visual impact or Rescue Orange for high profile. Rescue Orange has the added benefit of being easy to find around camp - as well as having potential as a signalling aid to make you easier to find in a search and rescue situation. Whatever your circumstances, when you’re out scrub the Heiman Hatchet is the tool you’ll want to have close at hand.

If you travel into our Pacific neighbourhood looking at the concept of the survival knife, you can see why some prefer to call it a survival blade rather than ‘knife’. That’s because it’s a cross between a knife, machete, spade and an axe. And that’s exactly what the Heiman Hatchet is – and more!

Tiring of knives that promised the world and failed to truly deliver as a ‘survival tool’, the Heiman Hatchet was inspired by Scott Heiman’s vision of a purpose- built single implement that could carry out a far more mixed range of tasks than the market offered.

Looking for inspiration, Scott focused on his experiences with the Army and Federal Police in South East Asia and Melanesia. Further, Scott drew on his lineage of multi-generational military service and the experiences of his forebears whose lives were - and still are - intricately connected to the land.

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All In One

The Heiman Hatchet is a survival tool that offers the characteristics of a knife, machete, spade, axe, saw, multi-tool and sand, mud and snow anchor in a single implement.

The Heiman Hatchet is manufactured from high carbon steel that is hardened and tempered. It’s finished with a high temperature ceramic coating of Cerekote. Leaving a smooth and functional finish. These characteristics minimise the likelihood of corrosion while increasing the blade’s durability.

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The Heiman Hatchet silhouette is broadly consistent with a hatchet crossed with a machete and kukri with several innovative features derived from its full tang, multiple edges, surfaces and apertures.

Combined, these features make the Heiman Hatchet your survival blade for life.

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The spine of the Heiman Hatchet has a toothed saw edge. This edge is intended for use as a notching saw. A common application of the notching saw is to place a wide square cut into a green tree limb. This cut is particularly useful in snare and trap making. A groove may also be made in a limb to prevent cordage from slipping, or to increase the coefficient of friction of a knot when making a shelter or a raft etc.

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The Heiman Hatchet has a curved spine like a kukri. The front edge of the Heiman Hatchet comprises concave and convex edges which can be used as an axe, machete and a knife.

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In the absence of a digging stick or other improvised spade, in an emergency situation the large surface area of the Heiman Hatchet is designed to be used as a spade.

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Unravel the Heiman Hatchet’s braided handle. This braid is comprised of over three metres of universal ‘550 cord’ (otherwise known as parachute cord) which has a range of survival and bushcraft uses.

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You’ll find hex-grips in the handle for expedient use as a spanner for three common sized hex-heads. These are duplicated for ease of use in hard-to-reach angles and to give flexibility in the event that the hex grips burr through misuse. The end of the tang (pommel) is etched to serve as a hammer if required.

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The tang of the Heiman Hatchet has a series of holes in it. These holes are designed to accommodate cordage for the purpose of fixing a pole to the tang. When the branch is attached, the Heiman Hatchet can be used as an improvised paddle or pike. The utility of a pike may include harvesting fruit or honey from trees, or de-barking of a Paperbark tree (or tree of similar characteristics) for the purpose of creating a shelter, raft, etc

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A bespoke addition to the Heiman Hatchet is the slot placed in the cheek of the blade. This feature serves as a handy wrench to undo butterfly nuts but its primary purpose is as a sand, mud or snow anchor. To use the Heiman Hatchet this way, insert the ‘key ring’ component of a wire saw into the custom slot - or attach fencing wire or similar. The full width of the blade operates as the anchor point.

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Thin branches or green softwoods may be split by holding the Heiman Hatchet in a double overhand grip and heaving down the length of the timber. For dry, thick or hardwoods, a batoning technique may be more effective.

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The Heiman Hatchet is sharpened at the point of sale to 70% which makes it an effective tool straight from purchase. Sharpen it further to emphasise the blade’s full potential for chopping, whittling, batoning, skinning or butchering. Heiman Habitat recommends sharpening the Heiman Hatchet with the Razor Sharp Edgemaking Paper Sharpening Wheel System in a workshop prior to field-use.

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The sharp edge of survival

Scott Heiman shares industry insider tips on survival and the Heiman Hatchet with the readership of Australian Hunter Magazine, Ed #77 2021.

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A good survival blade HAS hundreds of survival functions
the heiman hatchet can:
◾ Cut and slice ◾ Dig ◾ Split wood ◾ Wrench
◾ Prepare food ◾ Build shelter ◾ Make fire ◾ Forage ◾ Skin and butcher
◾ Create a sand, mud and snow anchor
◾ Signal ◾ Hammer ◾ Windlass
And if you need another reason to buy the Heiman Hatchet? Well, look no further. It also flies!