Alternative Splitting Device?

A friend of mine, who knows I process firewood for fun and heat, sent me this link. I've seen simular devices and I think I'll stick with my hydraulics!

 

Fancy integrated wedge and sledge.

I'll pass.

 

No thanks.
I'll keep using my mauls,axes & occasionally sledge/wedges.Big cube saw with long bar will take care of anything large/gnarly/knotty I will run across.

 

Looks like more work than an ax. But if you want to work out your arms and upper body...hey, there you go.

 

Ill pass on that as well. Its too much fun to split by hand to venture off.

 

Makes me think of all the times I spent using a post driver in my younger years,last time I did was 3-4 years ago when helping set up some temp snow fencing at a jobsite I was working at.

My feelings haven't changed,still hate the things,even more now that I'm older & kinda beat up now.Its funny,I'll gladly swing an axe,sledge or maul a couple hours (and feel it 3 days later haha) but despise using a post driver for 10 minutes.

 

Looks like you don't get much help from gravity using that thing. I would stick with my fiskars. That thing looks like too much work for me.

 

Except this sledge doesn't even have a handle so you lose all the mechanical advantage of that lever arm.

I too will pass.

Not to mention that a regular sledge has near countless uses while this one can only do one thing.

 

The only situation that this contraption worked better than the axe, was on the " elmlike" piece that laughed at the axe. This tool seemed to pop it open much easier.


Otherwise, it's a fail.

 

Yeah, everyone tries to invent a better mouse trap and this is what you get!

 

hmmm... "Splitz All" I have some Hickory they can try it on. Then again, they have probably sold a lot of them cit-i-diots and made a lot of money....guess, they are smarter than me.

 

interesting. Ive seen similar splitters in catalogs. Nice sized round to try it out on! Ill stick to the "old fashioned" way with my X27 and Isocore.
Let us know how it works for you Ralphie Boy

 

Agree! Fiskars by a land slide!

 

Fiskars won't touch some of the stuff I deal with. The elm we have here laughs at any thing that's not hydraulic, or some sort of mechanical advantage more than a hand swung tool. It's great wood for the stove so it would be a shame to pass on it simply because it laughs at hand tools.

 

It doesn’t really have to catch fish, only has to catch the fisherman to be a successfully marketed item.

 

Those little logs would have been one hit splits with the X27