TheYoungster17 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

English oak thats soaked up some water is a bitch to split with an axe... Even an electric splitter would have been a godsend. I love oak. Unless i'm carrying/splitting it.

cwaddle100 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hahaha! I like your style TC..."forget 'bout it"! I think my dad was holding out on me or maybe he was trying to teach me a valuable lesson called manual labor.

aguineapig (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@AsktheBuilder I've split wood with a 3 1/2 double bit for an hour.. And yes, I split knotty pine all the time, cords of the stuff. Just split with an axe from the side grain. Easy to hit between the knots. The rounds crack on the first swing 9 out of 10 times.

AsktheBuilder (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@MrStrictlyStock Yes. It works great on oak or any hardwood. As I've said time and time and time again in other comments here, it's SLOW. Some people can't swing a maul, but they can push the lever back and forth. That's what this tool is for.

MrStrictlyStock (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@AsktheBuilder Ever use that thing on hardwoods? That seasoned softwood isn't much of a test.

MrStrictlyStock (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@junkman661 A maul would be much more efficient than an axe. Axes have little taper, and not much mass. For softwoods, I'd use a maul any day. But for oak and hickory, it had better be no bigger than 12" in diameter, or you'll need some wedges.

rotortilttt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

27 tonn?? we got a log splitter who splitts in to 6 parts at the time and it only pushing 7 tonns who has proven to be more then enough for splitting hard wood + that it is 100 times fater then that one hehe

zakamooza (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

look at the size of this bad boy! lol

arkansastrash320 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I have lower back trouble if i work too hard lifting and splitting with an axe never really hurt me its the moving of heavy logs and the dern bending.But i got me a 6ton electric log splitter and boy does it save my back and it will cut through joinst and wild grains.Thanks excelent video.If i needed a bigger gas splitter i would want one like yours.But my 6ton is plenty powerfull enough to do whatever i need right now.

D0SI (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is why americans are fat ... Too lazy to do the real work ... grab an axe and do some movement ... It won't do you bad ...