Fiskars splitting axe?

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Posted: 2/21/2017 9:26:29 PM EDT

Felt one up at Home Depot, sure had a good feel to it. A nice sharp fat wedge on that thing. Seemed a bit on the short side, but I know nothing.

Good buy for just under $40?

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:32:53 PM EDT

[#1]

I like mine, I have a 36". I can outsplit a maul, but that isn't too hard to do.

What I got...

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:36:55 PM EDT

[#2]

I have the falling axe. It's GTG.

Are you sure you were looking at the splitting axe? They are pretty long...my falling axe is just a bit short for safe splitting.

Posted: 2/21/2017 9:43:16 PM EDT

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I have the falling axe. It's GTG.

Are you sure you were looking at the splitting axe? They are pretty long...my falling axe is just a bit short for safe splitting.

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I could have sworn it said splitting axe, but it just seemed short for a regular axe. It did have the wedge head though and I marveled at the sharpness of the edge.

I admit I was a bot distracted by all the super cool stuff in the hammer/axe/crowbar aisle at Home Depot though...

Posted: 2/21/2017 10:31:40 PM EDT

[#4]

Got a couple of those lubed up and put in LTS. I usually use a heavy maul when I do split by hand, which is rather infrequent. The chopping axe I use more when I'm driving wedges and chopping out backcuts when falling trees.

Usually we just build our pile of rounds up from trimming, etc. during the spring and summer and split it with the logsplitter when we have time. I usually run the splitter and the family runs wheelbarrows to the various firewood sheds and stacks them.

I think this year we are only up to about a dozen or so nights we needed fires, and only two or three nights we had them in all three stoves in the house. We will probably be well under 1 cord used this year.

The Fiskars stuff is da bomb. Never had any of it fail yet.

Posted: 2/21/2017 11:36:45 PM EDT

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I like mine, I have a 36". I can outsplit a maul, but that isn't too hard to do.

What I got...

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That's the same one I bought three years ago, I solely heat with wood, I bring wood home in rounds or if large 1/2 rounds, I burn through 6-7 cords per winter so I do use it quite a bit.

When I first got it at times I'd be lazy and smack it with a sledge instead of putting it aside and using a wedge with an 8# sledge. The back half is mushroomed almost as if it wasn't tempered correctly.

It's a good splitting axe as long as that's what you use it for, don't use the back to whack a wedge, or use it as a splitting wedge.

Posted: 2/21/2017 11:43:53 PM EDT

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I have the falling axe. It's GTG.

Are you sure you were looking at the splitting axe? They are pretty long...my falling axe is just a bit short for safe splitting.

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I just looked at the Home Depot site and they show several models (of different lengths) all called "splitting axe".

Posted: 2/21/2017 11:47:19 PM EDT

[#7]

I have an older Fiskers chopping axe, which I love. We really only use it camping (shockingly, not a lot of trees to worry about) and it always gets the job done.

I have a pair of wedges and a sledge I use for splitting.

Posted: 2/22/2017 12:14:36 AM EDT

[#8]

Paging @batmancw your expertise in needed here.

I sent up the bat signal. Now we wait.

Posted: 2/22/2017 12:42:15 AM EDT

[#9]

I own one. Maybe not the splitting one, but whatever. Use it camping and stuff, it's okay.

Loaned it to a buddy for camping. I'm 5'6" works great for me. He is 6'whatever.

In his whiskey induced state he was chopping a log and chopped his ankle. Lots of stitches and lots of limping later we learned full length axes won't let you ax yourself.