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Your Facebook Friends Were Right: This Axe IS Amazing
And there are bad and good splitting axes , Axe head shape/size ,handle length is important. Get one bigger and smaller splitting axe, like Fiskars.
I am just curious, how much time did you spend testing the axe shown here?
This was somewhat cruel but I'd eventually let the kids in on my gag:
When I'd see some kid watching me, I'd switch to some straight grained wood like poplar (there's always plenty of poplar in Maine) and my axe would glide through the wood like butter. If the kid was willing to try wielding the axe himself, I'd put a nice piece of oak or locust on the stump and watch him inbed the axe head in the wood. Once the kid was sufficiently demoralized by his inability to split a log, I'd let him in on the differences in wood grains, how it effects chopping, and why I have steel wedges beside my stump and the back side of the axe is flat like a hammer. Then I'd split the hard wood to show him how it's done and give him a shot at some poplar.
All this is to say that this axe is a joke. The twisting action is needles on straight grained wood and disasterous on gnarly wood.