CTYank
A splitting axe is a tool designed for splitting wood. Use the search feature on this site for info. Google "Splitting Axe" and you will find that Fiskers, Granfors Bruks, Stihl, Oxhead Iltis, Mueller,Wetterling and others market splitting axes. The splitting axe is usually lighter than a splitting maul thus allowing an individual to swing it faster than the heavy maul making the splitting axe more efficent than the maul. Kinetic energy increases exponentially as velocity increases. That is not to say that the splitting axe always out-performs the maul. It is just easier to use the axe over a given time period.
Tom
Just noticed this response. Nonsense. Such lighter toys are hardly more "efficient", just lighter. "Increases exponentially" is pure BS- it's a simple quadratic function of speed, and as mass decreases it's inverse.
IMHO, a "splitting axe" is good for kindling & such, and campfire wood; I sincerely doubt it EVER out-performs a real maul. Most especially a well-shaped and forged maul. (Read Gransfors, Muller, et al) Not HD specials. (Read some reviews, like of Gransfors on Amazon.)
Recently arrived here is a 3kg Muller maul from S. Austria. Lets me bust, for example, 16" oak rounds often in one shot. At $150, price is comparable to $50-something for mass-produced blue-light specials. Quality is obvious. It's really a delight to use, and has very much sped up production here.
I split my wood as soon as I get it that way all my drying problems are solved. A goo splitter don't know if it's green or dry. As long as you don't tell it what your splitting. Trying to be funny. Bad day to day broke a hydro hose on my hydro saw. That stuff is hot. LaterDo you find it easier to split wood with a splitting axe when it is green or when it has seasoned?
Thanks
Tom
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