Split 1 Cord of Douglas Fir with A Fiskars

[rmihalek]

If you had 12 inch diameter logs that were 16 inches long, you could stack up 96 such blocks into a 4x4x8foot crib. (Assuming they were all perfectly straight.)

Once they were split, they'd pack a bit tighter. Assume you'd need 10% more. So, could someone split ~110 blocks in 10 minutes (600 seconds)? You'd have about 6 seconds to grab a block, split it (let's say into fourths), toss the pieces out of the way, then grab the next block.

If everything was all set up, all the blocks were straight with no knots, I could see maybe 20 minutes (12 seconds per block) as "do-able."

 

[brages]

What the hell is a "fiskars"?

Fiskars Super Splitter:

4.5 lb maul... they are pretty nice.

Maybe it's this guy:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gH9SObKVA

 

[striperswaper]

wonder how often somebody loses a couple fingers

watching them buck up that wood must be a show

 

[Paul Bunion]

You don't get what splitting firewood by hand is all about.
It's not about speed. It's about stealing a half hour here and there and going out to the woodpile with maul, sledge and wedges and working up a little sweat.
You'll have that cord all split and stacked within a week or two without hardly thinking about it. Just a nice little daily exercise regimen and I'm talking oak, beech, birch and maple. If you want to kill yourself, try a pile of 20" + sugar maple with that attitude of yours. Learn or die!
Rural New England is littered with the graves of the dull witted.

 

[c5rulz]

Maybe the direction of this post has gotten misdirected. So I'll ask the question of "How does the Fiskars splitting ax/maul compare with conventional ones?

How's that for wading into it on my first post?

 

[B_Turner]

As a guy used to say at work, "I can't even scratch my butt in 10 minutes."

N is the key thing in this splitting task, and n is just too big a number for 600 seconds.

But on a serious note I bought one of those Fiskars recently and I am impressed. My previous splitting ax was a swedish job I've had a while, but the fiskars kicks it's azz. I can see why Baileys sells a ton of them.

In terms of that video, I can't really watch it long. It's only a matter of time before some blood letting with that cavalier an attitude to swinging a sharp ax.

Fiskars Super Splitter:

4.5 lb maul... they are pretty nice.

Maybe it's this guy:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gH9SObKVA

 

[brages]

Maybe the direction of this post has gotten misdirected. So I'll ask the question of "How does the Fiskars splitting ax/maul compare with conventional ones?

How's that for wading into it on my first post?

IMO, the Fiskars is pretty sweet... My brother has one; I have an 8-lb maul. The 8-lb maul is a little better on the tough stuff, but the 4.5-lb Fiskars is a lot easier to swing. For wood that splits easy, the Fiskars would make it more fun.

For the tough stuff, nothing's going to make it fun! Except maybe a big CHAINSAW. :chainsawguy:

The quality for the price on the Fiskars is excellent, too.

 

[ironman_gq]

I could possibly see a face cord if hes just splitting em in half and someone else is standing and stacking in 10 minutes but its still not likely and will probably have a repeat of old John Henry and his race against the stream drill.

 

[Freehand]

John Henry's mammy

had about a dozen babies.....



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[ric5141]

Looks like someone is going to lose a hand in the video sooner or later!

 

[c5rulz]

Thanks, I have been thinking about the new Fiskars splitting maul.

Everything I have boughht from Fiskars has turned out to function very well. The game shears snap off goose wings effortlessly. I have a Fiskars powergear by pass lopper that looked gimmicky in the store, but they work better than any bypass lopper I have used.
http://www2.fiskars.com/Products/Yard-and-Garden/Loppers/PowerGear

Ron in Wisconsin, and it is snowing out right now.

 

[The Count]

Fiskars stuff are great. I started to split an ash about two years ago...and it took me more than two years to get the job done...

 

[woodbooga]

I live my fiskars. Works good. Even betterfor getting folks to split my wood for me.

Most of my friends and family heat with wood. I'm the only one with one of them fiskars. If we have guests, me and the fellas will walk out to the wood pile. I'll rave about the fiskars. Weighs nothing. Splits better than a maul and wedges. They think I'm full of it since the thing weighs nothing. Try and see, I say. Next thing I know, I've gotten someone else to split a quarter cord of wood for me.

I'll have to nickname mine The Delegator.:biggrinbounce2:

 

[sjp]

I love my fiskar pro spliter it blows through 16-20" rounds of maple one handed swing 200lb user, but trying to kill your self in a 10 min.time frame dose not sound productive or fun
but each to there own good luck

 

[indiansprings]

I hope the hell he wears steel toed boots and shin guards.lol To try to split a cord in ten minutes I call BS. I know his intentions are good, but like many others on here we do firewood for a business and I've never seen a guy with a maul (don't care if its a Fiskars, monster maul etc) split even close to a cord in ten minutes. Granted we split oak and never have split douglas fir, but you can't stand it up that fast. I've got a couple of guys that split wood 6 to 8 hours a day for us using both mauls and hydraulilc splitter and are absolute studs when it comes to splitting and stacking and they would just laugh at you if they were asked to try it. It's not only nuts to try it, it's just not safe and responsible. I'll take slow and steady anyday. I'm sure the Fiskars is a good tool, but there are physical limitations at play. Douglas Fir has to be tougher than balsa.

 

[sjp]

Just noticed that fiskar haveing a sale
ax's 25% off until dec 12 online store

 

[SawTroll]

Fiskars Super Splitter:

4.5 lb maul... they are pretty nice.

.....

It isn't a maul - it is a heavy splitting axe.

Also, it actually is pretty "Super", like the its marketing in the US indicates!

Just a warning, the handle isn't very long, as it isn't meant to split wood that is sitting directly on the ground.

 

[GASoline71]

Meh... I'll stick with my trusty 5 pound, long wooden handled axe.

Gary

 

[SawTroll]

Meh... I'll stick with my trusty 5 pound, long wooden handled axe.

Gary

Your "problem"! :yoyo:

 

[SawTroll]

To be serious for a moment, there are a lot more info on this topic in the proper forum!