QUOTE: Axes have 2 cutting edges, hatches only have one cutting edge.
Not necessarily true, When I was a kid we had hatchets with double blades that we used for kindling, camping, meat processing and such. Later years there was the nick name of "hand ax" Then there was the full length double bladed ax use to process lumber, firewood, fence posts. bridge timbers, log cabins and such. There used to be contests where the loggers would get together and set up a sawed off tree and use it as a target for a throwing hand ax throwing contest. They also had throwing contests with the full sized axes. I was raised in timber country and am well over the years to have been present for those outings. Have a good day sir.