splitting logs with Fiskars and Hultafors axes.wmv

Testing splitting abilities with 2 very different axes:
- Fiskars 1100 splitting axe
- Hultafors full size chopping axe

It was around -20C cold out when I was splitting those pine logs. Logs split more easier when cold.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• hultafors
• fiskars
• splitting
• axe

[lecturer09]

This bloke makes out he is a woodman but he does not seem to have a clue on safety. He cuts wood from a base of snow wearing wellies. He wrenches the axe out when stuck in the wood so hard that one slip and he will either end up on his arse or with a v cut down his abdomen. Move over and let someone who knows what they are doing show you, i.e 'me'.

[Finnman77]

@lecturer09

I don´t make out anything and trying to be out anything. I heat my house with wood so I have cut and split a lot of wood without problems, but thanks for caring I promise to be more careful in the future :)

- Finnman

[Finnman77]

biguglygadgie:

I used Fiskars lightest 1100g splitting axe for demonstration cause it´s about same weight with bigger size Hultafors chopping axe. For logs that size I normally use Fiskars biggest 2400g splitter and you just need one good hit.

[Finnman77]

biguglygadgie:

I used Fiskars lightest 1100g splitting axe for demonstration cause it´s about same weight with bigger size Hultafors chopping axe. For logs that size I normally use Fiskars biggest 2400g splitter and you just need one good hit.

[Finnman77]

Idea of this video was to demonstrate how big is the difference of the different profiled axe heads. Fiskars was made to split and Hultafors for chopping. Both are great tools, but meant for different jobs.

[taos55]

He who lives in South Florida don't need any axe, any wood, any logs and barely any clothing. So, forget about all that crap and come on down!

[DeeManSony]

i hazard a guess that the hultafors is prolly designated for 4" to 6" trees

[moseseseseses]

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[mrjagill]

@flamedrag18 You sure this isn't a rant? Just kidding. I split wood with my dad when I was old enough. He built the house I grew up in, and is still a real DIY kind of guy. But, he split more of it, and got lots of wood from other people's building project left overs (no worries about chemicals, just wood). In the winter we heated the basement of the house with a cast iron stove. My house is not really set up for it. Maybe it was a chore, but sometimes I look back with nostalgia.

[flamedrag18]

find out you can't get to your wood easily. for wood, your looking for around $7000 for set up and prep, having a couple years of wood spare in case you are low on money one year, at least you can get by. you only save when you do it for 10+ years, then you get ahead of the initial costs. I'm not telling you not to do it, it can be rewarding, especially during blackout when your one of the only houses with proper heating without a generator :D I hope you didn't think this was a rant, just info.

[flamedrag18]

@mrjagill $1000-$1300 a year is a good estimate for a year of wood, cheaper then oil and electricty, but you need to split all of it and find a place to put all of it, and not just in a pile outside, I made that mistake, not nice to have to dig in 3 feet of snow looking for your pile of wood that's supposed to keep you warm for the winter, so I'd advise a shed for it and room in near your stove for close to half a cord in case you get snowed in and ...continued

[flamedrag18]

@mrjagill a couple hours work, but when heating a full sized home for a whole winter, you need a lot of wood, around 6 cords in the northern or mid west states and canada, and you likely need a wood furnace to properly heat a two story with a basement too, that's expensive. the only way it's feasible is to buy your wood in the late spring when demand is down and prices are low or cut your own firewood. personally, I've cut my own wood and it's hard work, now I buy most of it.. continued

[flamedrag18]

@mrjagill pfft, splitting is not a "joy", it's a chore and when your freezing your a** off in the dead of winter, you'll curse yourself for not getting someone with a splitting machine to do it for you or at least rent the machine. you can split a year's worth of fire wood in a day or two with a splitting machine, with a ax your pushing a week, embrace technology in this instance. the only way it's a joy is when your only heating a cabin and you don't need to lug around a machine for..continued