Recommend me a splitting axe!

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mikeakc

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Hi all, I'm after some recomendations for an axe for home use. I use if infrequently for processing trimmed limbs once I've chainsawed them up. Pretty light duty stuff. I also purchase split firewood from a local farmer but quite a lot of it comes in too large to fit in our smallish 4kW woodburner. I have a pile of 'oversize' pieces which grows until I get round to splitting them again. I have had a big 3kg splitting maul which feels overkill and finally flew off the handle a couple of weeks back and no off the shelf handle even come close to fitting it. I also have a little 650g hatchet which is too small.

Budget up to £50, and I would like a wood handle rather than synthetic. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike
 
Son uses the above - I prefer a stihl splitting axe, not a maul.
Whatever you buy it will become a good friend - I have an Elwell felling axe, quite a monster, but lovely.
 
Another vote for Fiskar, mines an X27. No good for cutting but ideal for splitting logs. Straight arm technique with back arm hand little finger next to shaft hook ( nice feature for sweaty or wet hands, no slipping off the end 👍). Plastic unbreakable handle thats proper bonded onto head so no loose bits.

Had it now about three years and has been faultless - recommended
 
mikeakc said:
Budget up to £50, and I would like a wood handle rather than synthetic. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike
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May I suggest that wood is the inferior option here; I thought as you but my Fiskars came only as a synthetic option.
Having broken sledgehammer wooden shafts in the past I would say the synthetic is superior in terms of abuse and missed targets 👍
 
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Definitely one of these. I have the splitting axe and the forester's axe for light de-limbing. They are much cheaper than other Scandinavian made axes as well, or were when I bought mine a few years ago. I worked with a 6'2" forester for a few days and he thought it was far too light though, although he is a big man.
 
I absolutely love my fiskars X27, heard the hype and thought it can't be that good only an axe but night and day from my old roughneck mual which I thought was good.

I've done some real big beech rounds with it my other axe just bounced off.
Swings effortlessly as so light, but think travels faster as so light and the speed splits it.
Carbon fibre shaft feels strange the 1st time u pick it up but really like it now.

I'll prob split 20- 30t a year so it gets a fair bit of use..

Enfield u must be the only person I e heard off preferring a log grenade, I think mnes is absolutely useless, really don't rate it
 
David T said:
Just buy a log splitter ;)
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This is the correct answer..
I split logs with an axe for years . I used to convince myself that it was good for me , then I realised that it was just an inefficient waste of my time . Log splitters are a life saver if you need to split a lot of wood.
 
mel b3 said:
This is the correct answer..
I split logs with an axe for years . I used to convince myself that it was good for me , then I realised that it was just an inefficient waste of my time . Log splitters are a life saver if you need to split a lot of wood.
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100% 👍
 
Thanks for the input all. Sounds like the fiskars x25 is held in high regard. Shame it doesn’t look as nice as the wooden handled ones. Same quandary as a plastic vs walnut rifle stock I suppose. Practicality vs. looks. For the record my rifle stock is walnut!
 
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