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Fiskars! When we sold firewood I could split far faster with it than the splitter. Large log with a tyre nailed on helped as well. Stopped them flying all over the place and easy to pick up/better hitting height.
 
eldon said:
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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I agree with that.
I have two Fiskars, there is zero possibility that I would go back to a wooden shaft.
 
mikeakc said:
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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Before I bought my Fiskars I watched loads of reviews, and thought "Can it really be that good?"

It is.

I was genuinely surprised - but pleasantly so - at how good it actually is for splitting logs. Absolutely zero 'buyer regret'.

Wood may look better, but the synthetic handle of the Fiskars is superior in function IMHO.
 
merlin said:
Before I bought my Fiskars I watched loads of reviews, and thought "Can it really be that good?"

It is.

I was genuinely surprised - but pleasantly so - at how good it actually is for splitting logs. Absolutely zero 'buyer regret'.

Wood may look better, but the synthetic handle of the Fiskars is superior in function IMHO.
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Fair enough, x25 it is then!
 
Dunno how tall u are but the X27 is a longer shaft than the x25, so more leverage/speed and be more suited if ur taller.
I'm only 5 10 and the 27 is fine for me, but I do have a good swing, far too many years hand balling fences swinging Mel's.
The shorter shaft might be nicer to swing if ur not used to swinging stuff.


As for mechanical splitters, id say it depends on the splitter and yr timber.
Many of the cheaper 1s are about as quick as a week in jail.
I have just modified/improved my spkitting bench, build a sleeper into a banking with breeze blocks so spkitting at waist height and all logs at that height no bending down.
I dump the cord wood/rings at top off bankng log it and they almost roll down to splitting area themselves.
Let gravity do the hard lifting.
Makes the splitting effortless, not many log splitters would keep up.

I'd be cautious of watching too many internet bids wether axes or splitters, they always look great,.
But look at the wood their splitting usually beautiful straight grained small logs, most grannies could look good splitting them
 
Have a old fashioned splitting axe which is good. Having used a Fiskars that is what I would buy.

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Any fiberglass handled 8lb splitting maul. No point in spending more than £30 on a splitting axe. Anything else is just for show.

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Spend the rest on a sledge to go with it so you can bray the back of the maul to split really tough logs.

I also have a 14lb maul which is a touch on the heavy side if you are splitting all day but it wholly clefts wood in two. Can't seem to find any on the internet at 14lb though.
 
Like everyone else I have a fiskars x series, I would however say a log splitter if in your budget makes life a lot simpler!
I have an ash shafted splitting maul that’s yours for 20 quid if your in north York’s
 
T.eddie said:
But if you have some log rounds I'd recommend
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I have the predecessor to that (when the husky axes were rebadged Wetterlings rather than Hultafors) and do quite like it - it's definitely nicer to swing than a maul.

I've not owned an x25 but have tried one and can see why people like them.

Most of my splitting (at home) is done with an old Elwell with around a 1 3/4 lb head and a relatively short handle at about 30". I have a wetterlings maul but most of the time it's just used for knocking in wedges.

Log splitters are all well and good but anything domestic (and often some supposedly pro models) are painfully slow.
 
I’ve been in the firewood business for about 35 years, everything of course these days is done with hydraulics, I do still however have an axe, fiskars x27 anyone who still prefers a maul either hasn’t tried a fiskars or doesn’t split many logs!
 
my brother used his. oxy/acetylene torch to cut a 14 lbs sledge hammer into a wedge shape at 1 end . man that tool would split logs but you needed to be Hercules to swing it.
 
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