Too many mauls/axes/choppy tools

[Fried Chicken]

There needs to be a store/firewood reseller that stocks every conceivable axe/maul/chopping/splitting tool that you can go in and try every single one, and then the store sells all the chopped firewood.

How on earth can someone decide on what choppy tool they want to buy when there are tons of options from literally all around the world.
Internet resources are useless for this.

I miss stores

 

[HumBurner]

This could be said for most things.

Most of the saw shops/auto shops around here no longer keep a good, healthy stock of parts, because it's too much money vested with no timeframe of return. Even basic parts, much of the time, have to be ordered and waited on.

 

[TheLazyBFarm]

There needs to be a store/firewood reseller that stocks every conceivable axe/maul/chopping/splitting tool that you can go in and try every single one, and then the store sells all the chopped firewood.

How on earth can someone decide on what choppy tool they want to buy when there are tons of options from literally all around the world.
Internet resources are useless for this.

I miss stores

Two words: Wiseman Trading Company. Unfortunately for you, they are in north AL. They have tons of axes, basically it's all they carry.

 

[Fried Chicken]

Man now I'm again "researching" this online, and I'm again pissed off b/c you can't gleen jack **** online.

I need to hold/feel these things, and the second I feel the right one I'll know, and I know I will know.
Man I miss stores/retail. Online is great, stores/retail are also great. Why can't we have both??

 

[dwaugh]

Why can't we have both??

Many reasons, one being people will go to real store, check stuff out for free and then buy online for cheaper. It's us (the consumer), not "them" (the seller). I would love to run an axe, maul, chopping stuff store, I would let everyone try stuff out, and then they would go home and order online for cheaper.

 

[Fried Chicken]

Many reasons, one being people will go to real store, check stuff out for free and then buy online for cheaper. It's us (the consumer), not "them" (the seller). I would love to run an axe, maul, chopping stuff store, I would let everyone try stuff out, and then they would go home and order online for cheaper.

This is why I appreciate companies like Stihl that do things the old fashioned way and insist on setting the pricing for retailers. At that point the decision falls to the consumer how/what is most convenient for them to buy.

I understand the flip side consumer though too; they're not evil, they're just not stupid. I've wanted to buy something in the store, but not at a 40% premium simply for buying it in the store.