NT manual logsplitter

Tried a search for manual log slpitter -

I'm not burning much, but sometimes I need to split logs, Having used a maul and wedge for about 45 years I was hankering for a better solution for low volume needs.
Northern Tools and Harbor Freight sell this:


I got mine for $100.

I'd highly recommend it (especially when on sale), It's very complex:
To put it together you put the handles in the holders.
To operate it you move the handles.

If you've got somebody that complains the logs are to big it would be easy for them to split logs on this.

I'd expect the cylinder is worth the cost of the splitter.

You really find that easier, faster, and better than a good fiskers maul, or you personally physically cannot use maul ??

stint said:

You really find that easier, faster, and better than a good fiskers maul, or you personally physically cannot use maul ??

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I just don't like swinging the maul (I've got one and I munged up my right arm so it makes it slightly more difficult) and my wife couldn't. Whereas my 86yr old MIL could easily use this, once someone set it next to her woodpile.
It's not faster, but doesn't the FISKARS maul cost $40 by itself?

gemniii said:

It's not faster, but doesn't the FISKARS maul cost $40 by itself?

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Best $40 I have spent in a long time!

Yesterday I cut down two 20" read oaks. Bucked it all and split every last piece of the trunks in 3 hours.

The Pieces were on a hillside and in over 12 inches of snow. Not sure how you would do it with any other kind of splitter. Not on that site anyway.

gg