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I am thinking of buying a fiskars x25 or x27 from experience which would be best for around 5'8" height? thanks
I'm 5'8" as well. I started with the original super split model that is the same length as the x25 iirc. I bought the x27 and have since only picked up the SS once in the last 1.5 years. I split on a large willow round. The "wrist snap" was much easier to learn with the shorter model but like I said, I haven't picked it up in a while.
5-8? The X7.
I also have the original SS and the X27, and I've concluded the same thing. (6'0" here)
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I imagine the Fins laughing smugly as they designed the X27, they built the perfect splitting tool in the SS but the know it all americans want a longer handle. So they gave it to us in a slightly inferior tool called the X27.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those finns aren't vertically challenged.
I am going to differ on opinion from the rest here. I have never used the X25 but I do have the original SS which is similar to the X25 in length. I also have the X27. I am 6'4" and I prefer the shorter SS over the longer X27. The X27 tires me out faster and my accuracy and technique suffers.
If you want to wail with all your strength like a traditional maul then get the X27. I can split stuff with the SS, using good technique, that I can't split with the X27.
Just like golf, baseball, or ringing the bell with a mallet at the carnival, it isn't all about brute strength. I bring the swing through roughly 90 degree arc starting with the fiskars parallel to my body and ending perpendicular. Just before the strike I bend my knees and snap my wrist. The wrist snap is critical and made much harder to do repeatedly with longer X27.
I imagine the Fins laughing smugly as they designed the X27, they built the perfect splitting tool in the SS but the know it all americans want a longer handle. So they gave it to us in a slightly inferior tool called the X27.
I am 6'1" and use the shorter one. Most of the time I split while on my knees, so I save my back. See my thread "dan is slinging wood" to see what this technique will do.I felled, limbed, bucked and mostly split that maple in 6 hours. It is very efficient.
Dan
I'm vertically challenged. This is what I split with.
I'm 6'4(36.5 sleeve length) and I really prefer the X27. I have the X-25, but have noticed that over-swings tend to head my way much more than with the X-27.
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Either way, no matter how tall you are I think a longer handle is safer. We should all be splitting over a used tire around the splitting stump, but I bet many are like me and have not rigged one up yet, or split in different locations. A glancing blow, or a miss can have a very sharp Fiskars embedded in your Sgt Hulka, ankle or shin. A longer handle might get the ax head into the dirt before it contacts body parts.
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