New splitting maul

I just got this yesterday and love it! I had several pieces I tried to split with my axe and was not able to but this split through them with ease. I love the way it sounds when it hits the round. This is the way I get my exercise during the winter.

 

Very nice maul indeed.

 

Love my iso core, it splits very well. Have done many cords with mine.

 

Is it safe to take a sledge to the pommel of this bad boy? I beefed up the back of my x26 when I was just getting into CSS, but I was curious if the isocore was more able to handle it.

 

It has a lifetime warranty also.

 

I have one and love it for sectioning big rounds. Sometimes i will split with it alone. Paired with the X27 the perfect splitting duo.

 

Ive been told you could. Cant recall if ive done it to mine.

 

I broke my Fiskars X27 couple years ago and they replaced it. Easy warranty to claim.

 

I would be reluctant to return a mistreated piece of equipment even if I didn’t know any better. Fortunately, it still works well and only lost a little weight. Some of these yard maples have me needing some sledge power. And using a maul saves a step compared to wedging for me. Plus I don’t know how many times I’ve buried three wedges in a crotchety round.

 

Mine broke while splitting. The x27 that is. I had "misused" it a few times by using it as a sledge when the Collins axe got stuck. The Isocore can be used as a sledge from what ive been told.

Three wedges stuck OMG! Have you ever tried noodling with the saw? Or cut a partial kerf and use the wedge or maul?

 

I have heard of sticking numerous wedges in the same round and not get it split. I have even done it myself a long time ago. I also know of people that had to burn the round up to get the wedges back. I have never done that.

I have stuck my axes and had to grab another ax or splitting maul to finish busting up the round, to relieve the first ax. I kind of tore my hands up this year by over using them, while splitting wood and yanking stuck axes and mauls out of tough rounds. I have learned my lesson on this, and I won't use steel wedges to split wood, either. My way of doing it, now, is much better in my humble opinion and really doesn't take any longer, because it takes time to split with wedges or fight tough rounds beating on them extensively, etc.

If after a couple to 3 strikes or so, if I have determined that a round is going to be a hard split, I just noodle it, and if I get into a string of rounds from a tough tree, (you know, bad twisted grain, or hard knots, etc.), I will just go ahead and noodle up several of those rounds and be done with it. Sometimes, after having or quartering up a large round, I can go back to splitting it down smaller with the maul or ax. Something about getting it relieved by cutting in half, will allow one to finish splitting by hand, but if not, I just noodle on and be done with it. Actually, I kind of find noodling to be fun with the saw.

I don't own a hydraulic splitter and probably never will, although I can appreciate their efficiency, I just don't need one, for my own use.

 

Yes, I noddle too and cut kerfs, but some stubborn rounds, I don’t think dynamite would take care of. I do avoid firing up the saw when possible, but I’ll be running it this weekend.

 

Lastmohecken i will take your and buZZsaw BRAD ’s advice and be more open to noodling. As much I enjoy swinging the splitter, I do get sore elbows and shoulders sometimes, and why not noodle when I have the saw. Some of these long black maple rounds would take forever with the x27, but the isocore + 5-7 whacks with a hammer was just enough to get them to pop. I’m running the saw this weekend to cut them down to size, however , so the x27 might come back into the picture. Being just about out of dry wood for this season has “lit a match” under my upcoming maple hoarding for next season.

 

Been there done that Lastmohecken. Doubt ill ever get a splitter either although my friend wants to go halves on one. He is a few years older.

My main criteria for a scrounge is ease of splitting. Guess im a wood snob! Like ive said in the past i enjoy hand splitting, just not killing myself in the process. I usually know just by looking at the round if itll split easily for the most part. Sometimes to blow off steam ill ATTACK a stubborn round with the Isocore or axe.

One nice thing about noodling uglies mrfancyplants is the resulting "splits" stack a lot easier, which im sure you know! I have a separate stack of bigger uglies/gnarlies set aside and will noodle them all at once.

Sometimes i forget how old i am (52) and my body reminds me after a splitting session so i will try not to pretend im young while splitting! LOL!!!

No more chatting...off the split some oak and/or black locust.
Hoard on and work safe my friends!

 

Too much working harder and not smarter when it comes to splitting! If hand splitting, I’ll save the tough ones for the hydro or will noodle them. No more “teaching that round a lesson” here!

 

You live long enough and cut your own firewood long enough you will eventually go to hydraulics. Age has a way of changing you and the way you do things.
Or even if your health changes hydraulics could come into play.

Now if you quit heating your home with firewood then that would change everything.

 

I will use numerous wedges, not because they are stuck, but to attack different weaknesses in the round. The more wedges the better, sometimes!

 

So far I have used mine to pound in A wood post, brake up part of a concrete wall, make holes in the ice for my beaver traps and split many a cords of wood with no damage to it.

 

Oh and pound in wedges.

 

I beat on mine. Of course I beat on every splitter I've ever had. The x27 has taken pretty well.
Fiskers has a video of beatin' the isocore.