Cool new axe

I want to see what it would do on a piece of knoty red oak....
 
I saw this and thought they just designed a new head that looks cool and doesn't preform any different id like to see a slow mo video of it from several angles
 
snappy said:
I want to see what it would do on a piece of knoty red oak....
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I thought the same thing when I saw it the other day. I have not found any videos of them splitting odd shaped stuff, but they do talk about splitting spruce, where the limbs carry back to the heart wood. What they said was that you don't have to run the ax down through the middle. You can start with the easier splits around the edges, and work toward the harder bits. Once you get some of the easy meat off, it all starts to come apart more easily.
 
Loganwayne said:
I saw this and thought they just designed a new head that looks cool and doesn't preform any different id like to see a slow mo video of it from several angles
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No, it works as a lever rather than as a wedge. The head is eccentrically weighted, so that it twists as it hits the log. And the blade is shaped so that it only penetrates so far without getting wedged in the log.
 
Weak. Here's how real men do it:
 
That axe looks pretty useful, but what happens when you hit a knot or some tough ass wood that stops and twists the head and the head and handle twists in you grasp? do you let go of it or put alot of twisting force on your wrists? It seems like it might cause some injury w repetition unless the handle is padded or some of the twisting force is absorbed in the handle.
 
^^^^^exactly what I thought^^^^^^
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and we got of those real manly killers in one of our sheds. And this man ain't runnin it!
 
mommucked said:
That axe looks pretty useful, but what happens when you hit a knot or some tough ass wood that stops and twists the head and the head and handle twists in you grasp?
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That's what it's designed to do every time you hit a piece of wood.
 
I get the design....and Im intrigued.

Id like to see them hit a smaller log where all you really want to do is bust it in half.

I suspect this new axe has its place for someone who chops a lot of wood but wouldnt replace an old fashion maul or tri head
 
Its amongst a lot of other "Stuff" I can't touch due to the timely historic nature of the piles of discarded junk hoarded up by my in laws.................but not even after the blood goes cold your first in line for that piece!! It's pto driven and all their just needs a tractor, pieces of wood, and a brave sole to run it. I've ran really old saw milling equipment and none of them with really big exposed blades, chains, sprockets, and carriages give me the willies like getting "screwed" to death should you fall into it.
 
I've seen where people run them with a string tied to the fuel shutoff and run back to the splitter, just in case. I've thought about bulding one myself since you can't find them anywhere. You can just back the tractor into a 6' log and rip it in half.
 
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My wood splitter is "coming of age". We do it the old fashion way unless its knotty. Honestly I can out run most normal splitters with a 5lb go-devil. If it's fine grained, knotty, or I'm all ready tuckered I resort to my home built stand up splitter in the back ground of the screw splitter pic. It's got a 34 in stroke, two stage pump, and full size 15 inch rims and tire to go down the road.
 
snappy said:
Idk this is manly too!
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We had one of those when I was a kid...holy crap was is that thing dangerous. I will concede that it will split some tough wood, but it will also whip a log around and break your hand faster than you can blink. Our wasn't tractor mounted though. Just to make it even sketchier you removed a back wheel from your truck and bolted it to the brake drum. So yeah, wicked dangerous open wood splitting screw with the whole thing on a jack, because nobody is going to bring a jack stand into the woods.
 
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