Tell me about Axes....
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So the 46 is 10 lbs and 39 is 8 lbs, 9 oz head.
Looks like a real sharp edge (the knid that American mauls need serious work to achieve) on that 46 also. I think this one would be one BAMF in difficult rounds.
zogger
Tree Freak
And to me, that's the advantage to the 6 lb. I wasn't that wiped out when I got done loading and splitting a truckload...
zogger
Tree Freak
There's that for sure. Main reason I like the original supersplitter, like a whiffle ball bat! You don't get tired swinging it.
I like having a variety, something like that mambo x46 looks real good for the gnarly stuff you get into, but not for every piece. I paid close to a hundred for the 6 something lb wooden handled version, the husky maul, so around 100 for the big fiskars doesn't seem out of line.
I know the monster maul is even heavier at I think 14 lbs but dang, that's just too much and it's clunky.
My thought is that if i need a 10 lb maul, I'll drive a wedge or two. I used to operate a 12 lb sledge all day, but that was almost 30 years ago. I also got REALLY good at replacing handles. We carried 4 hammers in the crew truck, a couple of 8 lbers and a couple of 12s for when the going got tough. The handles in the 8's lasted a lot longer.
zogger
Tree Freak
Husky modern style splitting axes in action, making uglies out of big cookies..not really a great test but you can see them
zogger
Tree Freak
What happens with me when I try to use wedges is they get stuck and buried. They need to be bigger and fatter than the hammer head, so you can chase them down into the wood all the way to the bottom and out if it doesn't split. The wooden handled husky splitter I have, you can do that, but not my sledge hammer.
What I do now is if I catch myself reaching for a wedge I flip that round aside and come back later and have a noodle party. Always wind up with some in most every batch of wood.
benp
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I can appreciate their tenacity going after those rounds.
That's why I have at least 3. Don't normally need them all, but if 2 are stuck, the 3rd goes in near the edge to at least free up one of the others.
(Worst case Zog, you can try laying another wedge on its side, over the top of the buried wedge, and maybe drive another 2 inches with the sledge hammer.)
Philbert
You can always noodle it.
It takes the pressure off if you get close. What kind of wood you getting a bunch of wedges stuck in anyway?
I got all of the wedges my grandpa had with him stuck in an oak round one time...
My uncle was really irritated he didn't send it as a saw log, I was told he burned a $10,000 tree. I would be surprised if he didn't do it more than once...
My uncle was really irritated he didn't send it as a saw log, I was told he burned a $10,000 tree. I would be surprised if he didn't do it more than once...
zogger
Tree Freak
Hmm, I only have two. I could always use the maul and sledge hammer that dude in. I don't like doing that, but do it when necessary. Like I said, I am way more into noodling now. I just don't want to be hassled with real gnarly stuff. A couple bucks gas and mix oil and bar oil and some trigger time can do a lot of heavy duty noodling of gnarly stuff. My elbow just has never gotten back to normal since it popped last summer, I can do light weight easy splitting mostly. I don't want to make it worse. The easy to medium stuff is still a LOT of wood I can do, so that's good enough.
mn woodcutter
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Two completely different tools. These are heavyweights so should only be used on difficult wood. Very few people could swing a ten pounder very long.
So i wonder if it would generate more splitting force because it's heavier or would the lighter and faster X27 do better? Anyone want to chime in?
mn woodcutter
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zogger
Tree Freak
So i wonder if it would generate more splitting force because it's heavier or would the lighter and faster X27 do better? Anyone want to chime in?
Those guys were splitting fairly tall and beefy rounds, what it was designed for.
I could see several uses, say a common one, someone with a mechanical splitter but no log lift. Bust the big ones up to a size you can heft easy to get on the beam. Or in the woods getting the wood, bust em up smaller to load on the truck. In the yard, something beyond a lightweight axe but still doable with a heavy maul, what we call gnarly stuff.
It's a little bigger and heavier than most box store mauls, plus sharp, I imagine it busts pretty good. Certainly wouldn't want to use it on every piece of wood, every swing, unless I was in weight/resistance training for some sport.
In smaller good wood, nope, a lightweight axe would be loads faster. In big wood, that big momma would be faster.
edit
ops, joking ha...Well, if some guy could wrangle one of those around as fast as most guys could swing an x27, he could be crowned king splittin dude 0 rama!
I got 15 splits in a near square 16 x 16 red oak round in 40 seconds before..like to see similar someone swinging that x46 beast in a much bigger chunk of wood...
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