Learning to split wood rounds with an axe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- How to split rounds with an axe. Sometimes when you get free wood you get the opportunity to get massive rounds, how do you process them?
Using feedback from the internet and a fiskars x27 splitting axe I show you what I discover works when splitting these large wood rounds for firewood
Watch out for the easter egg in this video and if you spot it throw it down in the comments below for kudos :-)
The wood used here is ash. This is useful if you are looking to learn how to split rounds too and are as inexperienced as I am. #wood #firewood #splitting #easteregg
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I have sound off, so you may have explained this further than just the initial "highlander style" overhead swing warning. What I found so unusual was that you not only bring it past vertical, you drop it down so far you almost touch your butt with it. Don't most splitters recommend over the head but not past shoulders? Their reasoning is, nonproductive energy wasted. Aren't you feeling it? The extra work that goes into lifting the ax twice? First to raise it front of you, then controlling it on the backside as you brake its descent, and then raising it again from behind you before it returns to vertical?Try it from just vertical, accelerating it until you let it snap it into the round. Does that feel a bit better? ... (Me, myself? I'm no splitting pro, but I find what works best for me is either going from not quite directly over my head or even sometimes, especially when it's bouncy, "windmilling" it, meaning, circular return not from in front of you but from the side, rolling it from the hip. I probably am comfortable doing that because it's how I used to swing a spike maul when I was a trackman. Raising a 12 lb spike maul over your head all day ain't even really possible. So we'd work it from the hip in a circle, "windmilling it." It still comes up above one shoulder or the other, so there's still power coming down, a LOT of it. Because instead of "start-stop" action of swinging down and pulling up, you're maintaining momentum, directing inertia. I dunno. Made hammering spikes MUCH less tiring, and we went faster. Wow. Decades ago, that I did that work. Seems once you get a feel for it, I guess... still gravitate toward it to this day. For anyone worried about accuracy, how big do you think a railroad spike's head is? Guess what? -- We weren't missing it. But if you don't want to try it or don't understand my description, no problem. Best advice, as always, do what you find works best, safely, for you. It's all learned by personal experience. Keep swinging!).
Sometimes it does touch my butt.
Thanks so much for your detailed question. Yup you are quite right. Later in the video (from similar feedback) I apply the straight up and down method, its a bit more efficient, safer and more accurate. The fiskars x27 is quite light so I was able to get much more "wang" from starting behind my head (or even nwar my butt) and I have not had problems with my previous hickory axe either. While it was less efficient it worked well for me at the time. But now with the fiskars its possibly OTT, and much for efficent. Its definitely more tiring but it worked against some of the knottier wood. Really interesting about the windmilling technique thats not something I have understood but you explained it quite well here and I see a lot of US based vids using it. I might try it at some point.