I intend to compare to Fiskars, 8# maul, and regular splitting axe.
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zogger
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benp
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Nice!!!!!
I wonder how much of a learning curve the lever axe will have to truly give it a fair shake?
I know it took me a while to get the fiskars figured out to where it became second nature of adjusting force of swing and follow though.
Im looking forward to the hands on reports.
Where at in iowa ? im near chelsea.
zogger
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Hopefully it will only take an hour or so to get the swing of it. Took me a few days with the fiskars, but, it was busting great right off the bat, because I learned to split with a regular lightweight chopping axe. Tried the maul swing, nope, overkill and not fast enough, back to overhead axe swing, yep, that worked. What I had to learn with the fiskars was how to not cut my foot off...
Ya , I put a nice slice in my boot toe with x25 , put shoe goo on it. Stand spread eagle or put a thick round down & split on that!Hopefully it will only take an hour or so to get the swing of it. Took me a few days with the fiskars, but, it was busting great right off the bat, because I learned to split with a regular lightweight chopping axe. Tried the maul swing, nope, overkill and not fast enough, back to overhead axe swing, yep, that worked. What I had to learn with the fiskars was how to not cut my foot off...
Same here. I sliced my boot with the original 28" Super Splitting Axe. Maybe I should do a boot test with the Leveraxe2?
zogger
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Cut a lot of birch, aspen, cedar, ash, and spruce today for the shoot out. Tamarack is on the menu tomorrow if the weather holds out.
benp
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I am in far NW Iowa, Sioux County
Well if you feel like driving a couple hours east next Sunday I think @Steve NW WI and I are going to run it through the paces.The 'ol Swamp Pine has consistently proven to be my most toughest wood to split.
It's always a fight.
ETA -
I have some test wood from today I could of shipped over.
Are there any trees in that part of our state?
I spied some standing dead elm but its inside the city limits of the town near my hunting cabin so I'm not interested in finding out if someone has a problem with me cutting it.
Standing dead tamarack is now in the test pile.
Are there any trees in that part of our state?
Nothing like Eastern Iowa.....Enough to keep warm tho
Hedgerow
HACK
Thank you for volunteering to go mad dog with this new fangled axe Rick...
We look forward to seeing you operate it... Will offer pointers as you attempt to split this...
This is gonna be fun...
Say What? I didn't volunteer to use that thing. I'm gonna split some wood it's gonna be with the hydro splitter.
Hedgerow
HACK
I got one of those for you to run too...Say What? I didn't volunteer to use that thing. I'm gonna split some wood it's gonna be with the hydro splitter.
