Just got back from a week in the lakes. We rented a spot in a farmers woodland for private use. The farmer said he would provide wood for us to burn as the area was an SSSI and he didn't want us raping out the standing deadwood. Sounded good to me. Anyway, when we got there, there was a pile of felled tree trunks - about 20 trees, most about 8" to 10" in diameter - all softwood, but it was fairly dry and free. Only problem was it was a bit big, so we ended up renting a Husky, which was annoying as we could have bought one with us had we known, but we weren't there to spend the week cutting wood and it was the only way to cut the logs up in any reasonable time so needs must....
Anyway, we ended up with a couple of tons of rounds for splitting. People had taken several axes, obviously there were a few granny B's and hatchets and wotnot. But someone had taken along a brand new 2.5lb Granny B splitting axe with a 20" handle, one of these....
To the point! This splitting axe was just awesome. It's the first time I've used one and everything from wrist thick logs to 10" rounds were just popping in half with such little effort (you can see the size logs we were chopping in the pic above and it was demolishing them). Everyone there was well impressed with this little axe. Granted, we didn't do much bushcraft, but we did a lot of log splitting for our fire and this axe just wiped the floor with everything else there - including the usual suspects from the GB stable. I am definitely getting one of these and everyone else who used it, is saying the same.
I'm wondering why I dont read much about the splitting axe? There is virtually nothing on the forums about them? I know people use an axe for all sorts, not just splitting, but this axe is very capable as a regular axe too - it's not a maul, it's an axe - basically like a fat shouldered SFA with another pound of weight, a steel colar and an inch longer, grooved handle. It was light enough to split sticks and choke up on and use like a knife, but heavy enough to pop pretty big rounds - I was very surprised by it's power and performance.
Has anyone else used one?
Anyway, we ended up with a couple of tons of rounds for splitting. People had taken several axes, obviously there were a few granny B's and hatchets and wotnot. But someone had taken along a brand new 2.5lb Granny B splitting axe with a 20" handle, one of these....
To the point! This splitting axe was just awesome. It's the first time I've used one and everything from wrist thick logs to 10" rounds were just popping in half with such little effort (you can see the size logs we were chopping in the pic above and it was demolishing them). Everyone there was well impressed with this little axe. Granted, we didn't do much bushcraft, but we did a lot of log splitting for our fire and this axe just wiped the floor with everything else there - including the usual suspects from the GB stable. I am definitely getting one of these and everyone else who used it, is saying the same.
I'm wondering why I dont read much about the splitting axe? There is virtually nothing on the forums about them? I know people use an axe for all sorts, not just splitting, but this axe is very capable as a regular axe too - it's not a maul, it's an axe - basically like a fat shouldered SFA with another pound of weight, a steel colar and an inch longer, grooved handle. It was light enough to split sticks and choke up on and use like a knife, but heavy enough to pop pretty big rounds - I was very surprised by it's power and performance.
Has anyone else used one?
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