Wood chopppers of ATOT this is the axe to get

[KeithTalent]

Awesome. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[TROLLERCAUST]

Honestly, nowadays, no one splits logs with a hand axe.

I do. I, with my brother, help my father to make enough firewood for the winter and of course for the saunas in the summer too. Our summer cottage and my father's house is heated mainly with wood. All three saunas are wood-heated, not electric. Sure when my father gets a bit older he will probably get a wood splitting machine. He's been talking about getting one. Some of us actually value hard manual labour and prefer doing things on our own than doing everything with machines. There's just something about doing it all manually yourself. Makes you feel like a man.

 

[TROLLERCAUST]

Ehh, I don't need to split wood often since my home has natural gas furnace and stove. But, when I split wood I just use a little Fiskars splitting axe. It's small enough that it's convenient to carry around, and it's light enough that It can be used like a hatchet with 1 hand.

I have three Fiskars axes. Good axes. :thumbsup: I didn't know they exported them to North America.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Honestly, nowadays, no one splits logs with a hand axe. If you have a cutter to cut trees into logs then you're going to rent a pneumatic splitter. Even hillbilly woods people do this.

You have obviously never been to Maine or Northern NH. People hand split wood there all the time.

 

[DrPizza]

Honestly, if I had a hydraulic splitter, the only action it would see is when I run into a few pieces that refuse to be split by hand. Right now, if 2 wedges and the maul can't split it, it put it in the bucket of my tractor, and drive down to a neighbor's house. They have an outdoor boiler that can handle much larger pieces of wood (up to 3 feet long and 24 inches in diameter.)