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Who uses one and what weight handle size and brand are you using ? Looking at a Council Velvicut ,just wondering what other options there are for new ?
I say it's the cool factor. You can only split with one side at a time. What is the purpose? Rotate it every other stroke so it stays sharp longer? How many axes do you have now? If you over shoot a block and snap the head off, you still need a back up. I've split with most of my doubles and really like a good 4-4 1/2 pound single better. Plus, if I stick the ax in a block, I pick the whole thing up and swing it down on another block to blast it apart. You can't do that with a double. That, of course is if the block is small enough to pick up, not a 200# round, Joe.I'm also wondering if they are any good for splitting, or just the cool axe to collect at the moment.
I think it depends on the wppd and your technique. Bucking Bilky Ray splits with a doubke bit all the time. I don't think I could split my hardwoods very well with one though.
I think it depends on the wppd and your technique. Bucking Bilky Ray splits with a doubke bit all the time. I don't think I could split my hardwoods very well with one though.
I've tried using a regular axe for splitting, and no it doesn't work at all in eastern hardwoods. Well some of the straight grain easy splitting wood like Ash, walnut and a few others it would, but even then a maul is nicer to work with. The stuff Billy splits looks straight and the way it moves around you can tell it weighs nothing and has no density. They just have different species of wood in the north west.Yeah, not exactly sure but don't think it would work in a good portion of our hardwoods in the east. Maybe of straight grain ash and red oak but idk...
Agree.I've tried using a regular axe for splitting, and no it doesn't work at all in eastern hardwoods. Well some of the straight grain easy splitting wood like Ash, walnut and a few others it would, but even then a maul is nicer to work with. The stuff Billy splits looks straight and the way it moves around you can tell it weighs nothing and has no density. They just have different species of wood in the north west.
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I've tried using a regular axe for splitting, and no it doesn't work at all in eastern hardwoods. Well some of the straight grain easy splitting wood like Ash, walnut and a few others it would, but even then a maul is nicer to work with. The stuff Billy splits looks straight and the way it moves around you can tell it weighs nothing and has no density. They just have different species of wood in the north west.
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I only refuse to burn a couple types of trees. White pine, Basswood comes to mind.Since I'll burn any kind of free wood I completely agree. Yes all my ash trees are dieing but if it's dead I cut it down. Some wood the fiskars flies through others it sticks in. I have a beater ax for exactially that, beating it with the sledge. Sometimes the maul splits like a dream other times it bounces off. Then there's the wedge for those large rounds that the maul bounces off.
It all burns lolI only refuse to burn a couple types of trees. White pine, Basswood comes to mind.
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