Kindling cone splitter review

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Having seen a video on Facebook of someone selling such a device, my interested was piqued and after a couple of weeks of prevaricating, I eventually bought 3 for half the price on eBay (just under £9 delivered). As you can see, they delivered 2 with a hex shank, which is great (although I gave one to a mate) and one with a square shank which is useless, frankly. It looks like SDS but isn't.

 

 

Anyway, with my Dewalt drill trying to split a reasonable sized log with it just ended up with it stuck as there wasn't enough torque. Difficult to extract as trying to reverse it just unscrews the shank and leaves the cone embedded in the wood. Once I'd split the bigger log down a bit with an axe, the cone splitter could do its thing and I was pleasantly surprised at its efficacy. It's easy to place where you want it, which isn't always the case for a hatchet, and I made a decent little pile of kindling in short order. It's not going to make commercial amounts but it's not entirely rubbish. Well worth the money, I'd say.