@@goodnightmunchie Not a biggie. If you're one of the small town locals, the color of your skin will only matter during Summer. Then everyone has to be on the lookout for burns.
For people who don't understand how this works, it's not the spring which is forcing the wood apart. The spring is there to make the pawls return to their starting position when you lift the axe. It is the force of the downstroke that causes the pawls to cam open and split the wood.
It would've used a much heavier spring. Then when compressed by the force of the downward swing the spring then would have stored kinetic energy it can release.
@@James_Lindgaardthat makes no sense. A stronger spring would make it worse by absorbing more energy exactly when the splitting force is needed and releasing the energy afterwards in the opposite direction when it's wasted.
In Germany, these were sold in the 1980`s under the name "The great divider". I was a teen than and one day, our music teacher asked the whole class: "Guess what I did yesterday, check your last test or try out my new tool?" The next 30 minutes he told us about "The great divider". 😀
You sound like the 'christian' Taliban, you know book burning and all. Leave people alone, you have zero rights to tell others to live according to your 'religion'. @@Max_Griswald
These are so cool and _really_ clever. You'd think the axe is too simple to possibly improve upon. You can debate the tradeoffs of this design versus a traditional axe but the fact that it's even debatable is a huge accomplishment.
There are not too many trade offs. It´s designed to work as a splitting maul. It´s not intended for the cutting tasks most of us have in mind when thinking "traditonal axe". Neither is the splitting maul.
I can imagine it's the kind of thing that some ancient god of wood splitters gave to that one legendary woodsman after they cut down a million trees in a single night with the help of a talkative grasshopper.
I come from the wood, I saw a that kind of spring loaded axe before. But a 24 pounds maul!!! What kind of arm do you have to use a tool like that all day!!!!!
I learned to split with my dad's chopper 1 and then bought my own when I got a house with a wood stove. They work the best on hardwood! They still make new ones and all the parts you need to refurb the old ones!
My dad still has one that he got in the mid 80's. We were clearing property in Thunder Bay Ont. This axe quickly became a favourite wood splitter by him and I. This sucker would and still does just fling the pieces depending on how much power you used. As punishment for signing my Dads name on a school form, he gave me splitting chore that without this axe would have been absolutely miserable into something bearable. I was a lot stronger the following fall/winter semester because of it that's for sure. We've maintained it over the years and to this day its still great axe. We still have it's original Fiber Black handle. Dad taught me how to swing on some shitty wood handled axes first before letting me use this baby, but after he saw I wasn't abusing the wood axes he trusted me with this bad boy. If someone gifts you one in good condition, thank them, it's a great axe.
YT has a built-in slo-mo option. Problem is at quarter frame speed, I'm not seeing the spring guides coming out. Click the gear icon, and adjust the playback speed.
Same... I need one so bad. I mean I don't, I have way more axes than I could ever legitimately use (one downside of "stress smithing"), and really I only have use for any axe because I create excuses to use as a "legitimate reason" to own them, because selling/ giving them away is a "whole thing" here these days.
I looked this axe up. I found one on ebay. Made by the sane companyand same size. I see a purchase in my immediate future. Thank you for the inspirational videos as akeays Nicole.
That was great,I’ve seen these axes before but never new how they worked. You,my friend,are a wealth of information,knowledge,and sublime beauty. Thank you for your quirky channel,I absolutely adore your personality,it’s infectious and very very fun,I giggle every time Nicole.
Instant like for the ingenuity! For using a string for the spring! A length of starter rope It’s my favourite spring tool! So many blokes I work with as a mechanic struggle with springs opting for pliers or a hook tool! Often resulting in a bit of swearing!
Only in Canada could a random stranger walk up to someone in a grocery store and say “I have an axe for you in my car” and it still be a happy ending ❤🇨🇦
@@Meisha-san could work in texas too. why be afraid of someone with an axe when half the ppl are carrying. it's the "don't bring a knife to a gunfight" situation :)
@@thecursed01What made you think my comment was written in fear? Just, how?? It's a lighthearted vid with polite jovial comments made in jest. Hope you cheer up & enjoy the rest of your day.
I picked up a spring loaded double bit at a flea market last fall. It feels a bit odd in the hand but works pretty well on white oak. Mine uses a spring similar to a rat traps so breakage is less of an issue, definitely worth $15
I bought one of those in the late 80's when I was in Texas. Mine has a plastic handle and it's worked flawlessly for over 30 years! I love my Chopper 1. I have split really knotted wood from my 12 acre farm in GA.
My dad and us three sons used that kind of axe all summer long in the 70's and 80's. Very handy for the knotty pieces. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. :)
I picked one up in an antiques store in the UK for £25 labelled "american axe". It's on my "must restore" list. Seeing this I think I need to get round to it sooner!
I have used one to split quite a bit of wood when I was younger. I loved using it, thought that it was a huge improvement over the standard maul. Swinging that for a few hours was definitely a workout.
My parents bought a wood stove in the early 1980's, so I got to chop wood with a maul back in those days. We'd had the stove for a couple of years when my dad bought one of these axes. I tried it, but I preferred the maul. I didn't notice any appreciable difference. If anything, I thought the maul was easier to use. Maybe that spring-loaded axe was too cheaply made to work as well, so who knows? Anyway, thanks for another cool video.
This is so cool. I absolutely love gimmicky stuff like this, it really has it's own charm to it. Never knew these existed till now and it's definitely my new favorite axe.
Wow it really works. I think I saw one of these many years ago. The spring she installed seems too weak, but it worked. She's good at splitting wood & cute too !
I grew up with this style axe here in Alaska, honestly not my favorite design after years of use I ended up favoring a more 'normal' style maul. For one, the axe head does not embed very firmly, meaning you can't pick up the wood and swing again with the weight if the log. You usually have to stop and remove it. For two, the pawls don't engage until you're pretty far into the wood, by that point, you've pretty much split it anyways. I always love these axe demonstrations when they show a bunch of perfectly straight, dry, light wood.. like you could literally split that pretty well with a hatchet. Even the 'dense' piece was still straight and knot-free. Hardly realistic conditions for regular use... maybe the trees are different wherever you're from, but here every third round has at least one knot. This axe is not as good for those. Fun, interesting? Yes. Good for some niche applications? Probably. Should you go buy one? Probably not.
Thanks for the test I was always curious about those. I think my dad has one somewhere now I’ve got a find it. Keep up the good work thanks for chopping wood for folks.
This is a fun tool to use and works great on medium and small pieces. Personally, I do like prefer my splitting maul, but always exciting to add "new" tools to the collection.
Cool video. The ax looks heavy. A personal question ???? How did you get such Sculpted Arms. Keep showing the power and grace wood cutting takes. I’m always in awe of the precision you swing the axe. Keep making videos. Thank You
If you look very closely, she has an entire youtube channel revolving mainly around chopping wood. This is pure speculation, but maybe - just maybe - this intensive manual labour could perhaps somehow be related to her having strong arms?
That wood would have split just as well with a standard maul. I have one of those spring loaded gimmicks and if the wood isn’t ready to split, the pawls prevent it from penetrating as deep as a regular maul would 😐
My old man bought one of these when I was in my early teens. Great for splitting Aussie hardwoods, even ones with a twisted grain. Never got stuck because the pawls would separate the wood as it penetrated. awesome bit of gear
Finally someone on the internet who knows how to chop wood without messing up their back and tiring themselves out after 2 swings!!! Keep having fun!!!
When we were cutting up wood for the winter, we had the choice of the chopping maul, the mechanical axe, and the regular axe - and my favourite was always the mech. axe.
That's a pretty neat piece. It seems to me you could probably blast logs apart across the yard with a sock full of quarters, but so what a cool gift. 🙂
Nicole has the cutest, most cherubic smile ever. You’d never knew rust underneath that beautiful face and cheery attitude beats the heart of a warrior with a deadly swing.
I came from the Instagram version of this video, and I couldn’t help but notice how the wood literally explodes out words. Made total sense when you said it was spring loaded.
I have one of those at the family cabin. Works great and the guy who invented it is still selling the replacement spring kits online. Ships from New Jersey. Like $15. Great tool.
We had one growing up...not sure it worked better than a standard maul...but I split a ton of wood with it when I was a kid...gave me a work out for sure.
We use to have one of these splitting axes when I was a teenager in the eighties. Worked great! If my dad had a stump or chunk that wouldn't split, he would say put it aside until wintertime until it froze good and hard! Then he'd go and split it quite easily!
My father used this exact axe model when I was growing up to split fir and pine logs for our wood stove to help heat the house in the winter. For logs with knots, he would bring out the splitting wedge and the 8 pound sledge hammer since this kind of axe didn't do too well with knots.
Own one. Unique sound of the two splitting cams “clink”. It will split elm and red oak, however there is a noticeable thud of resistance until you find the sweet spot and a small split occurs. Those cams certainly make the pieces fly. Well designed and beefy handle.
I found it helped me to deliver the full force of the axe and swing to the outer edge of what I’m trying to split. I placed the axe edge as tangentially to that edge as I could instead of trying to split along visible cracks in the center. Large pieces, especially, were open to this and instead of going for a full on split, I’d leave just enough to walk the axe around it. I’d finish it off by pulling pieces apart by hand.
I remember when they were in stores. It was early 1980’s. I was a teen time and use a double bit and for big stuff it was a wedge and sledgehammer. Sadly the wood I was splitting was ( I lived in Southwest PA at the time ) was locust. It was horrible to split! I could not see that ax working. But would love to have one!
Damn Nicole, you're ripped (in a good way)! I'm impressed. Thanks for educating me about this style of axe. I'd never heard of it before. Keep doing what makes you happy.
Хобби
We had one which we named Clunk. She was stolen from our garage. I miss Clunk. She was a hard worker.
I'm naming this one Clunk II, in honor of your missing companion. I'm sorry for your loss
I'm gonna be pouring one out for clunk.
@@NicoleCoenenAww, thank you. May you have many years of hearing her sing the song of her people.
i love this
Awww clunk....that was really touching. My spring load axe was stolen too, in my 20s enough I didn't care...but it's potential
You know you've made it when you're gifted an axe in a grocery store by a stranger! 👍👍👍
There's famous and then there's "Grocery Store Axe Famous." 😂
you know you're in a high trust society when someone tells you, "I've got an axe for you in my car", and you don't run away
@@chrisc7265imagine if she was a black African girl walking around aimlessly in a store with a axe 🫣
@@goodnightmunchie Not a biggie. If you're one of the small town locals, the color of your skin will only matter during Summer. Then everyone has to be on the lookout for burns.
Only free axe i ever got, the head came off when I went to use it, fortunatelyno one was behind me. My fault for not checking enough before hand.
For people who don't understand how this works, it's not the spring which is forcing the wood apart. The spring is there to make the pawls return to their starting position when you lift the axe. It is the force of the downstroke that causes the pawls to cam open and split the wood.
yes.... it's not spring loaded, the springs just hold the levers in place
It would've used a much heavier spring. Then when compressed by the force of the downward swing the spring then would have stored kinetic energy it can release.
@@James_Lindgaardthat makes no sense. A stronger spring would make it worse by absorbing more energy exactly when the splitting force is needed and releasing the energy afterwards in the opposite direction when it's wasted.
@@berzerius That might actually be to help get the axe out of the wood.
@@James_LindgaardIf it doesn’t split the wood in the first place, a spring isn’t what getting it out.
Dang you’re so good with an axe! My father always called me ‘lightning’ cos I never struck the same place twice 😅
Going to use that 😊
Good one...lol..lol..
Bwuaaahaaaa!
the thing is, lightning is actually *more* likely to strike the same place twice
@@waffler-yz3gw That almost makes the nickname crueler.
In Germany, these were sold in the 1980`s under the name "The great divider". I was a teen than and one day, our music teacher asked the whole class: "Guess what I did yesterday, check your last test or try out my new tool?" The next 30 minutes he told us about "The great divider". 😀
In 2023, if a teacher gives that choice, I am going to bet they "tried out" their "new tool," have non-traditional pronouns, and also have blue hair.
You sound like the 'christian' Taliban, you know book burning and all.
Leave people alone, you have zero rights to tell others to live according to your 'religion'.
@@Max_Griswald
Bro what are you smoking@@Max_Griswald
@@Max_Griswald Not every place in the world is big city America, man.
@@monochromatic9601 - Then they would have checked the test and not made a big deal out of it.
I would love to see a super slowmow when the sidepieces push the wood aside! :D
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Not quite what you wanted but it shows the principle.
Ooooh yes!!! Get the slowmo guys to help you do the video!!! How cool would that be? ❤
Click that gear icon and put it on .25 speed. Axe does nothing
Aye I set the playback speed to a quarter, and not seeing the springed guides popping out. You're basically just using a wider-angled splitting maul.
In order for the springs to work, it has to go deeper
These are so cool and _really_ clever. You'd think the axe is too simple to possibly improve upon. You can debate the tradeoffs of this design versus a traditional axe but the fact that it's even debatable is a huge accomplishment.
There are not too many trade offs. It´s designed to work as a splitting maul. It´s not intended for the cutting tasks most of us have in mind when thinking "traditonal axe". Neither is the splitting maul.
@@maxlutz3674What I had in mind is the basic stuff like increased cost and moving parts that can break or get lost.
This axe is definitely part of wood splitting folklore and is right up there with the Sotz 24 pound monster maul. Love it!
I can imagine it's the kind of thing that some ancient god of wood splitters gave to that one legendary woodsman after they cut down a million trees in a single night with the help of a talkative grasshopper.
I come from the wood, I saw a that kind of spring loaded axe before.
But a 24 pounds maul!!!
What kind of arm do you have to use a tool like that all day!!!!!
Woodaxe+1, extra 1d4 damage to nature types
@@jeremybrouillard I have one, but rarely use it. My go to is the Vulcan splitting maul which is a measley 8 pounds.
@shockley1002
8 pounds is a fine weight for a maul.
You can still sling it, and it has impact.
it looks like a weapon used in a steampunk game. Nice!
I learned to split with my dad's chopper 1 and then bought my own when I got a house with a wood stove. They work the best on hardwood! They still make new ones and all the parts you need to refurb the old ones!
My dad still has one that he got in the mid 80's. We were clearing property in Thunder Bay Ont. This axe quickly became a favourite wood splitter by him and I. This sucker would and still does just fling the pieces depending on how much power you used. As punishment for signing my Dads name on a school form, he gave me splitting chore that without this axe would have been absolutely miserable into something bearable. I was a lot stronger the following fall/winter semester because of it that's for sure. We've maintained it over the years and to this day its still great axe. We still have it's original Fiber Black handle. Dad taught me how to swing on some shitty wood handled axes first before letting me use this baby, but after he saw I wasn't abusing the wood axes he trusted me with this bad boy. If someone gifts you one in good condition, thank them, it's a great axe.
I never found splitting logs a chore. In fact, I love it. It's good exercise and gets the circulation going.
A really slow motion shot of it would be cool to try and see the spring stuff happening.
Yes, I'd love to see that too!
I was reading the reply’s to see if anyone wanted to see it in slow motion. I think that would be cool.
Slo MO Guys, Gav and Dan
YT has a built-in slo-mo option. Problem is at quarter frame speed, I'm not seeing the spring guides coming out. Click the gear icon, and adjust the playback speed.
@@Klaaism Not enough frames per second to catch whether they are or not which is why you need a high speed camera.
My dad had one of those! It was fun to use and really works.
My dad had one too!
That is so freaking cool! I never knew such an axe existed.
Same... I need one so bad. I mean I don't, I have way more axes than I could ever legitimately use (one downside of "stress smithing"), and really I only have use for any axe because I create excuses to use as a "legitimate reason" to own them, because selling/ giving them away is a "whole thing" here these days.
I was around when they came out. Back then there were TV commercialss to make sure that people knew about them.
It's simply the best. Mine is 45 years old and still going strong.
Thanks for being who you are… You seem to be smart, resourceful and knowledgeable about your passions. Thanks for sharing your videos with us!!
I grew up in my dad's hardware store. We sold those beasts. Woodcutters loved them.
Love your videos, sense of humor, and you just being you!!! Great rep for Canadians 😊
That would have been a really cool gift, even if you HADN’T been able to fix it! I’m glad you were able to restore it. Thanks for sharing!❤
Woodchopper axe. I think you can still get them online. I bought a new one a couple years ago.
Thank you, awesome person that gifted Nicole this axe.
I looked this axe up. I found one on ebay. Made by the sane companyand same size. I see a purchase in my immediate future. Thank you for the inspirational videos as akeays Nicole.
I've never seen or knew such a design like this existed 😮 Awesome 👌
What an interesting piec of technology, thanks for sharing! And for showing the community of a Canadian small town!
That was great,I’ve seen these axes before but never new how they worked. You,my friend,are a wealth of information,knowledge,and sublime beauty. Thank you for your quirky channel,I absolutely adore your personality,it’s infectious and very very fun,I giggle every time Nicole.
Instant like for the ingenuity! For using a string for the spring! A length of starter rope It’s my favourite spring tool! So many blokes I work with as a mechanic struggle with springs opting for pliers or a hook tool! Often resulting in a bit of swearing!
Only in Canada could a random stranger walk up to someone in a grocery store and say “I have an axe for you in my car” and it still be a happy ending ❤🇨🇦
As an American this made me burst out loud lmaooo
Only in Canada could someone walk around the grocery store wielding an axe - and it is perfectly fine...
@@Meisha-san could work in texas too. why be afraid of someone with an axe when half the ppl are carrying. it's the "don't bring a knife to a gunfight" situation :)
@@thecursed01What made you think my comment was written in fear? Just, how??
It's a lighthearted vid with polite jovial comments made in jest. Hope you cheer up & enjoy the rest of your day.
It’s an axe not an AR-15
Would anyone else love to see a super slow mo close up of the axe head doing work?
My grandfather had one of those. I think I have it in my garage. This brings back some good memories. thanks for sharing.
There was a guy in my supermarket with an axe the other day…they evacuated, we live in very different places
I picked up a spring loaded double bit at a flea market last fall. It feels a bit odd in the hand but works pretty well on white oak. Mine uses a spring similar to a rat traps so breakage is less of an issue, definitely worth $15
I've heard of having a "little spring in your step" but never one in your axe before.
🎶 The more you know!🎶🌈🌟
Always fun to watch this young lady at work.
I bought one of those in the late 80's when I was in Texas. Mine has a plastic handle and it's worked flawlessly for over 30 years! I love my Chopper 1. I have split really knotted wood from my 12 acre farm in GA.
That is a cool looking axe looks like it would be so much fun to use
I would love to see an ultra slow-mo of the mechanism engaging and pushing the wood apart!
Very interesting piece of history!
My dad and us three sons used that kind of axe all summer long in the 70's and 80's. Very handy for the knotty pieces. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. :)
It’s surprising how much that little spring helps. I’ve never seen an axe like this. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Apparently the spring isn't pushing the wood apart, downforce is doing that- the springs just hold everything in place.
I picked one up in an antiques store in the UK for £25 labelled "american axe". It's on my "must restore" list. Seeing this I think I need to get round to it sooner!
It was the video I was waiting for haha, as soon as I saw that they gave it to you I knew you were going to make a video of it 😊
I have used one to split quite a bit of wood when I was younger. I loved using it, thought that it was a huge improvement over the standard maul. Swinging that for a few hours was definitely a workout.
I've always wondered how well that type of axe would work. Thanks for the video!!!
My parents bought a wood stove in the early 1980's, so I got to chop wood with a maul back in those days. We'd had the stove for a couple of years when my dad bought one of these axes. I tried it, but I preferred the maul. I didn't notice any appreciable difference. If anything, I thought the maul was easier to use. Maybe that spring-loaded axe was too cheaply made to work as well, so who knows? Anyway, thanks for another cool video.
Same experience, it felt as those spring-loaded axes were allways someway out of balance .
Those Chopper 1’s are so cool, but I recommend having a stock of spare springs handy
Yeah it seems like the nature of what you're using them for means that springs aren't going to last very long.
This is so cool. I absolutely love gimmicky stuff like this, it really has it's own charm to it. Never knew these existed till now and it's definitely my new favorite axe.
Wow it really works. I think I saw one of these many years ago. The spring she installed seems too weak, but it worked. She's good at splitting wood & cute too !
clicked for the cool axe, stayed for the... uh, stayed for... um, uh, stayed... for the- oh man, uh, the wood?
Yes, lots of wood 🪵 isn't nature wonderful...
I grew up with this style axe here in Alaska, honestly not my favorite design after years of use I ended up favoring a more 'normal' style maul.
For one, the axe head does not embed very firmly, meaning you can't pick up the wood and swing again with the weight if the log. You usually have to stop and remove it.
For two, the pawls don't engage until you're pretty far into the wood, by that point, you've pretty much split it anyways.
I always love these axe demonstrations when they show a bunch of perfectly straight, dry, light wood.. like you could literally split that pretty well with a hatchet. Even the 'dense' piece was still straight and knot-free. Hardly realistic conditions for regular use... maybe the trees are different wherever you're from, but here every third round has at least one knot. This axe is not as good for those.
Fun, interesting? Yes. Good for some niche applications? Probably. Should you go buy one? Probably not.
Exactly. This is my experience too 👍
Thanks for the test I was always curious about those. I think my dad has one somewhere now I’ve got a find it. Keep up the good work thanks for chopping wood for folks.
I used to see those in the store and always wondered how well they worked. This is the first time I have seen one in use.
Would you prefer this over a traditional axe? I mean I can see the wood splitting apart at the end but I doubt if it is as sharp as a traditional one
This is a fun tool to use and works great on medium and small pieces. Personally, I do like prefer my splitting maul, but always exciting to add "new" tools to the collection.
Cool video. The ax looks heavy.
A personal question ????
How did you get such Sculpted Arms. Keep showing the power and grace wood cutting takes.
I’m always in awe of the precision you swing the axe.
Keep making videos.
Thank You
If you look very closely, she has an entire youtube channel revolving mainly around chopping wood. This is pure speculation, but maybe - just maybe - this intensive manual labour could perhaps somehow be related to her having strong arms?
I used one of these through my teens, worked great.
Been using one of these axes since I was a kid. Works like a charm.
That wood would have split just as well with a standard maul. I have one of those spring loaded gimmicks and if the wood isn’t ready to split, the pawls prevent it from penetrating as deep as a regular maul would 😐
My old man bought one of these when I was in my early teens. Great for splitting Aussie hardwoods, even ones with a twisted grain. Never got stuck because the pawls would separate the wood as it penetrated. awesome bit of gear
My grandpa had one of these! he loved it! My mom and step-dad inherited it and use it to this day. I hope to get it down the road......
Damn effective! And you look fabulous weilding it. Bravo!
That brings back great memories. My dad had one of those in the early '80s.
Finally someone on the internet who knows how to chop wood without messing up their back and tiring themselves out after 2 swings!!! Keep having fun!!!
That's honestly a really cool gift!
I love these axes. It doesn’t make it easy, but it does make it easier.
When we were cutting up wood for the winter, we had the choice of the chopping maul, the mechanical axe, and the regular axe - and my favourite was always the mech. axe.
I never knew such axes existed! Very cool!
Nice technique. The wood split so cleanly. 😊
That is so cool!! Also looks
very badass
I never knew I needed one of these axe swinging humans!
The axe is nice too!
The sound that spring makes in the silence of the forest is nice.
That's a pretty neat piece. It seems to me you could probably blast logs apart across the yard with a sock full of quarters, but so what a cool gift. 🙂
Nicole has the cutest, most cherubic smile ever. You’d never knew rust underneath that beautiful face and cheery attitude beats the heart of a warrior with a deadly swing.
Nicole, you are wonderful individual.
Keep it real & ROCK IT!
never heared about springloaded axes but now i want one. its just looks amaasing
I grew up with one of these. they work quite well, especially when your a kid. Mine had a fiberglass handle.
Ngl, it's pretty satisfying hearing the little jingle of the pushers and watching the wood fly out of view.
I've seen those never tried one! Looks like it works great!!
I came from the Instagram version of this video, and I couldn’t help but notice how the wood literally explodes out words. Made total sense when you said it was spring loaded.
Kool I never knew that there was a spring load axe before thank you for you knowledge
God that is one of the coolest axes ive ever seen!!
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I need one…
I have one of those at the family cabin. Works great and the guy who invented it is still selling the replacement spring kits online. Ships from New Jersey. Like $15. Great tool.
The moment she stands surrounded by the spoils of her victory.. this young lady is awesome.
Loving the sound
We had one growing up...not sure it worked better than a standard maul...but I split a ton of wood with it when I was a kid...gave me a work out for sure.
I have never seen an axe like that before, wow what a cool gift.
Haven’t seen one in years great gift my friend
Had one of those in early 80s . Best splitting axe ever. Hard to get one these days but worthwhile if you can.
My dad had one of these! Nostalgia.
We use to have one of these splitting axes when I was a teenager in the eighties. Worked great! If my dad had a stump or chunk that wouldn't split, he would say put it aside until wintertime until it froze good and hard! Then he'd go and split it quite easily!
What a nifty axe, and a nice gift. 🙂
We had one of these when I was growing up. It always felt like hitting the wood with a sledge. I usually went for the double bit instead
My father used this exact axe model when I was growing up to split fir and pine logs for our wood stove to help heat the house in the winter. For logs with knots, he would bring out the splitting wedge and the 8 pound sledge hammer since this kind of axe didn't do too well with knots.
Own one. Unique sound of the two splitting cams “clink”. It will split elm and red oak, however there is a noticeable thud of resistance until you find the sweet spot and a small split occurs. Those cams certainly make the pieces fly. Well designed and beefy handle.
Dang I wonder why these aren't more popular. That axe looks like it's doing WORK.
My dad had one of these, it was so much fun to use!
I found it helped me to deliver the full force of the axe and swing to the outer edge of what I’m trying to split. I placed the axe edge as tangentially to that edge as I could instead of trying to split along visible cracks in the center. Large pieces, especially, were open to this and instead of going for a full on split, I’d leave just enough to walk the axe around it. I’d finish it off by pulling pieces apart by hand.
I got one of these for my dad about 15 years ago. I like it
Saw one of these in an antique mall. Already have a fiskars maul and several other ones, but still plan on adding one of these to my line up.
this axe is pretty cool!😍
always wondered how these compared.. big love for a fellow canuk & thanks for sharing!
I remember when they were in stores. It was early 1980’s. I was a teen time and use a double bit and for big stuff it was a wedge and sledgehammer. Sadly the wood I was splitting was ( I lived in Southwest PA at the time ) was locust. It was horrible to split! I could not see that ax working. But would love to have one!
Seeing the wood split is so satisfying
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Damn Nicole, you're ripped (in a good way)! I'm impressed. Thanks for educating me about this style of axe. I'd never heard of it before. Keep doing what makes you happy.