The Cold Steel Trail Boss is compact enough to carry all day in your hand or strapped to your pack" yet tough enough for chores that would make a hatchet or tomahawk scream for mercy. Featuring a European style head with a 4" blade and a 4 1/2" cutting edge" it takes a big bite with every swing. Plus" it features a very sturdy" durable straight-grained American Hickory handle. In Cold Steel's extensive field-tests in the outback of Australia" the Trail Boss was used to chop kindling" clear roads and trails" to build blinds and even to chop down a fair sized tree!