Now not to get too technical and historical

I was just reading 1491 by Charles Mann, in which he mentions the European straight plow (used for centuries if not thousands of years), which just cut a line in the soil, sides sticking to the soil, often requiring multiple oxen to pull. At the same time the Chinese had a mouldboard plow that turned the earth away from the blade. It was more efficient and easier to pull.

This is like the Chinese mouldboard plow. Either Etienne is as strong as he is good looking, or this is one terrific axe/wedge.
Old school axes I've swung get stuck in the log and I have to ... well whatever I wind up doing, eventually works and isn't very efficient. (I could build kayaks faster than I could ever make the pile in Etienne's shed).

Anyone know enough about blacksmithing to know if Etienne's nifty axe could have been made by an 18th century blacksmith? If it could, then it might fit under the category of why the Americas never used the wheel, the Euros the wedged plow. I'll bet it would be very difficult to make, (too massive, would require a more than a forge).

I'm certainly going to be thinking about it the next time I go camping and I'm beating my wedged hatchet out of a 4" wide bone dry piece of firewood with my framing hammer.
Etienne, I salute the efficiency of your axe, but why did you park your carrier so far from the work? Showing off your legs?

Thanks for sharing.