Break-axe

For strength and hardness, for towering height and size, the break-axe may be called the king of the Cuba forest.

The quiebra hacha is the celerated break-axe tree, noted for its durability.

Quebracho wood derives its name from two Spanish words, "quebrar" to break and "hache" an axe, and this break-axe wood is one of the heaviest and hardest known, weighing some 85 pounds to the cubic foot, or over l/3 more than water, and "playing ducks and drakes" with axes, saws and other cutting tools.