axe vs. wood splitter??

[chaffey]

My brother and i used to split everything by hand and when you kick off first thing all's great but by lunch time the back aches and the body starts to hurt whereas with a log splitter it just keeps on going same pace all day long and since i've had mine even my brother has stopped complaining about splitting wood!!

[david wood]

My brother and i used to split everything by hand and when you kick off first thing all's great but by lunch time the back aches and the body starts to hurt whereas with a log splitter it just keeps on going same pace all day long and since i've had mine even my brother has stopped complaining about splitting wood!!

 

just saved me typing it - exactly same deal with my bro who is an office dweller and has to bullied into helping. Wish i had bought splitter years ago!

[Nick B]

Log Splitter wins hands down

It wont be done in by 11.30 and wont need as much tea

[robbo 110]

just saved me typing it - exactly same deal with my bro who is an office dweller and has to bullied into helping. Wish i had bought splitter years ago!

 

lol!! id of kept him on the axe as punishment for dwelling an office!!!!!! have you any idea what these office people pay to go to the gym? pure madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dangerous brian]

My log splitter was probably the best investment ive made,with an axe you spend most of yer time chasing the log your cutting all over the yard,and like someone said on chest nut oak syc etc its ok with an axe but throw a bit of semi seasoned monterey into the mix,and you need a splitter.

[Mesterh]

Over the course of say 8 hours you will be way way slower than a splitter.

[csservices]

Axe is alot faster than a splitter if you've got straight grained stuff, plus it doesnt need any fuel, doesnt tie up the tractor and you can replace alot of axes for the price of a log splitter

[armchairarborist]

used axes for years, even got a few mates round bribed with beers and the 'lets drink and split wood till someone loses a toe -challenge'.. now i have a pile of broken axes, a yard full of wood and a nice splitter on order:thumbup:

[djbobbins]

lol!! id of kept him on the axe as punishment for dwelling an office!!!!!! have you any idea what these office people pay to go to the gym? pure madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I work in an office but have an arrangement to fetch as much firewood as I can use from a local piece of woodland, mainly felled and ringed with a chainsaw then split with a maul.

 

Never really saw the point in sweating on a treadmill when I can be doing something more useful instead... have been thinking about trying to blag my neighbour into helping me do some carrying instead of his current foolish behaviour of going out jogging!!

 

Going back on-topic, splitting with a maul is fine for a couple of hours providing it is ash, oak, or anything else reasonable and knot free. I tried - and eventually succeeded - in doing some eucalyptus, but it was a complete pig!!