Fiskars has been around since 1649, making it one of the world's oldest companies. The company started out as an ironworks, making nails, knives and tools, eventually expanding into cutlery and the orange-handled scissors that made them a household name in 20th-century America. In the 21st century, Fiskars focused more heavily on the gardening market, having had experience in the sector dating back to the 1800s. Finding success there, in the mid-2010s they pushed into construction tools.

Their Pro IsoCore Wrecking Bar is a striking example of how competently they've entered this sector. Well-reviewed even by general contractors—you could be forgiven for thinking the consumer-focused brand was focusing on DIY'ers—the tool's handle is designed to ease fatigue, thanks to both inner- and outer-layer vibration dampening synthetic materials.

The IsoCore design is something you really have to try to appreciate. I've split wood with both a traditional maul (metal head, wood handle) and Fiskars' splitting maul, which has the IsoCore handle. It's not that you feel the difference with each strike. It's that at the end of the day, the non-IsoCore-maul leavings you feeling more sore, the IsoCore tool less so. It is that difference, Fiskars is betting, that makes IsoCore tools attractive to those putting in long shifts.

The design of the tool itself is visually striking, no pun intended, as with most Fiskars products. The tool consists of a smooth-faced hammer up top for punching through drywall or delivering blows to recalcitrant pieces of wood.

The hammerhead features a standard split claw for pulling nails, and below that, an angled tang. This tang is meant to work in concert with the claw and is specifically designed for grabbing and twisting dimensional lumber.

The prybar tip down at the bottom provides leverage, and has a triangular cutout for pulling nails. While it's not as convenient for nail-pulling as a conventional split claw, the compromise was made in order to give the tip a single robust edge.

This shot is of an earlier version of the tool, but it's the only image I could find that shows the bottom-most nail puller.

The tool comes in both 18" and 30" lengths, running $50 and $60, respectively. And in an era of junky tools, it's notable how consistently well-reviewed this wrecking bar is.