Fiskars super split wow!!!!!

[wooddog 066]

Just wanted to post and thanks the guys on here i finally listened and bought me a fiskars super split today and wow was splitting logs like never before i recently got a chopper1 axe for my b-day from my parents i asked for it ans wanna get rid of it because when i used to split wood small for inside little boiler small and now if i have big rounds i just wack em once for my outside furnace so they can dry but once again thxs guys i really enjoy watching the wood "EXPLODE"!!!!!!!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[rmihalek]

It's a nice tool for sure. I just took a chunk of metal off the cutting edge when I hit a bolt that was completely embedded in the middle of a big chunk of maple. I touched up the edge the best I could with the grinder, but I don't want to change the profile of the wedge too much. It still works great.

 

[Circle B MN]

Every one I have ever shown my Fiskars to has been impressed. The thing will burn through some red oak rounds like nothing.

 

[wooddog 066]

that stinks its just unreal the punch it packs when you hit the logs!!!

 

[Blowncrewcab]

I sharpened mine for the first time last week ( It goes through some wood so fast it ends up in the dirt ) anyway, after a 5 minute sharpening it WILL & DID shave the hair on my arm. I am a knife Fanatic and have to have everything extremely sharp. The edge that comes on the Fiskars only needs a little (Very Little) Massaging to make it shave. I liked it so much I did the little fiskars Hatchet also....If you don't have the hatchet.....Get It.. It Is just as Impressive as the Splitter and you'll wonder how you ever managed to live this long without it. It's Really a Nice Piece....

 

[wooddog 066]

hahahaha i will have to look at them thxs i am sure its also another fine product

 

[AKKAMAAN]

"If you want to win, get a Finn"....

There are almost 5.4 million Finns to choose from

Finland is the greatest racing nation in the world, and they are a kick'n a** industrial nation too...best educational system in the world....No recession in Finland today...

The Finns were totally teared apart after WW2, and have worked VERY hard to be where they are today...

akkamaan, I'm a Swede...

 

[wooddog 066]

see the proof is in the puddin AKKAMAN!!!

 

[Jed1124]

Ordered my Fiskars yesterday. Can't wait to get it!

 

[Dalmatian90]

50% Finn here

My favorite story of modern Finnish sensibilities in design and engineering involves two things.

One, they base their traffic fines on your average day's pay...the lawyer pays more then the laborer.

Two, thanks to Nokia using them as a test platform the Finnish Police was a leader in mobile computing.

They punch the driver's license and offense into their computer in the cruiser, the system checks with the tax department, and spits out a ticket with the fine printed on it.

Back in '02 the President of Nokia got caught on his motorcycle going 45mph in a 30mph (I'm converting from those funny Euros and Kilometers thing).

Fine was 14 days pay. The previous year had been very good and the Nokia President had cashed in a bunch of stock options. Ticket spit out of the printer in the cruiser...$104,000.

 

[Big_Al]

I've never seen one of these in person, only pictures. I'm curious what makes them work so well as a splitter. i wouldn't think something with a 4 lb head would split wood of any size without help. Wouldn't it be like splitting with an axe? I'm currently using 8 lb mauls for all my splitting. Educate me !!

 

[Dalmatian90]

It is a splitting axe, not a maul.

The head does have a flare to it which helps to pop the logs apart, which a cutting axe does not.

Good design matters. Why do you split with an 8# maul and not an 8# sledge hammer? Because the maul is shaped better to split wood. Keep optimizing it, you'd probably get to the Fiskars design.

There may be an element of physics. Force = Mass x Velocity. If folks are swinging the lighter axe faster then a heavier maul, it offsets the weight difference.

But for me, and many others, the biggest reason is with the lower weight you get less fatigue and you beat up less on your joints from hoisting the 8# maul repeatedly. I'm splitting wood with no more, and probably fewer, swings then I did with an 8# maul...but I can make more swings per hour because the axe is less fatiguing.

There is a balance point, Fiskars makes an even lighter "Pro Splitter" that's 2-1/4#. It works great till you use a Super Splitter which has a 4-1/4# head. That seems to be a reasonable compromise to most of us between lighter then a maul, but more effective then the Pro.

 

[sunfish]

Is that what it's called?

I've been using one for years and didn't know what is was until I saw a photo here recently. Damn thing is amazing and light. I'll never use a maul again! Well, probably wont use the Fiskars much now

 

[AKKAMAAN]

It is a splitting axe, not a maul.

The head does have a flare to it which helps to pop the logs apart, which a cutting axe does not

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Here is a pic where I try to point out a couple major design differences that make the FSS so great...

There may be an element of physics. Force = Mass x Velocity. If folks are swinging the lighter axe faster then a heavier maul, it offsets the weight difference.

Actually Force =mass x acceleration....better to use splitting energy...The "power" that split the log is about kinetic energy...

Energy = mass x velocity x velocity/2

Example
If mass is 8 and velocity is 2 energy will be E=8x2x2/2=16

If we reduce the mass to half, 4, and the double the speed, 4, the energy will be E=4x4x4/2=32

This shows that speed is, to a certain point, more efficient than mass....this is the main benefit from using a light head axe instead of a maul....

 

[gtsawyer]

Love my SS too - I just wish it had another 4" on the handle length.

 

[wooddog 066]

supposedly i saw a thread on here last night that in 2011 they are gonna start making longer handles!!!!

 

[banshee67]

50% Finn here


One, they base their traffic fines on your average day's pay...the lawyer pays more then the laborer.

i dont like that at all. why should someone who worked harder to get a better job than me, and make more money than me, have to pay a larger fine for breaking the same law? this sounds like obama to me, why should people that make less money get special treatment, especially if they broke the law they knew was a law..

anyway.. yea, fiskars super splitters are awesome, i love mine

 

[banshee67]

Love my SS too - I just wish it had another 4" on the handle length.

there is a thread on here that says fiskars is coming out with a longer one this year!

 

[Philbert]

there is a thread on here that says fiskars is coming out with a longer one this year!

They should call it the "ArboristSite-Length Handle", due to all the promo it has received on this website and all the begging for the additional length: if they are really making one, part of it has to be due to our pleading!

Philbert

 

[banshee67]

They should call it the "ArboristSite-Length Handle", due to all the promo it has received on this website and all the begging for the additional length: if they are really making one, part of it has to be due to our pleading!

Philbert

seriously! we should get a cut of their sales all the free advertising us owners give them on here!!
someone should send them the link to the thread thats like 30 pages long about the super splitter with everyone praising and recommending it! i say free long handled super splitters for 20 of us drawn at random, must be owners of the old model though!