Does anyone know what tool I am referring to and what it is called. Thank you. My Dad showed me how to split wood when in my early teens. We had a couple of 30 foot Chinese Elm trees to work on, felled by high winds.
Some of the larger pieces took three wedges. Ax or Maul?? Well I use both. Ax for the smaller stuff, maul for the bigger stuff. We have a type of tree that grows here like weeds. I have been told that it is called Manitoba Maple. It is very tough to split. The grain twists and is very fibrous, stringy. I have to use the maul, and usually have to pound it through with a sledge hammer.
In closing I say what ever works for you. Work smarter not harder. Thank you for your words, I was confused by this article and others on using a maul instead of an ax.
My entire life I have only ever seen axes used for splitting wood. My family and friends, in Europe, have used axes to split wood for centuries. The one time I used a maul I failed miserably at it, probably because I was used to using an ax. You start on a wood block, not on the ground, then you pull the ax down to create as much velocity as possible.
If the ax gets stuck, you lift it with the block of wood and drop it on the ax butt against the block, it MUST split. I am 52 years old I have lived in a house heated by only wood all but 5 years of my life. I believe whether I am swinging an axe or a maul the most important factor is reading the wood. The second most important factor on a tough piece is to be able to hit the same spot on the second swing!
Master these two factors. And the average mechanical wood spliter does not stand a chance. My favorite days are spent splitting wood in the crisp Wisconsin fall air. Katz I have the Gransfors Bruks splitting maul. I would get that along with two wedges.
I live on the west coast of canada, I primarily split fir but I am going to start going to the beaches and buck up washed up lumber and then split them. This is to sell and because I enjoy it. I am tired of using crap tools and I want to get either a gransfors large splitting axe or gransfors splitting maul. The rounds I will be splitting will primarily be between inches. Let me know what you suggest. Back in high school my friend would chop wood for his dad and he used an axe, which was quite difficult and always got stuck in the piece he was trying to split.
In my opinion the maul is where it is at. The maul is heavier and although it may seem counter intuitive, is easier to use. Just put it up there and basically guide it down as it drops. It will destroy what your splitting. Just happened upon this old wood splitters discussion. Im the novice of all of you woodsmen, Young and old spent the last 4 days at a friends families cabin just outside of West Yellowstone on Hegen Lake in Montana. Its an annual opportunity to drink vast sums of whiskey and beer, catch as many fish as we can and pile cord after cord for the next summer season.
To blast through the cords we used a powerful little Briggs and Stratton splitting screw Sold firewood for a living on the west coast.
Longer is better than shorter. Handle material: hardwood preferred Handle design: NOT straight. Straight is very hard on the wrist. Nicely curved, especially at the end, is critical if you chop much and value your body.
Handle grain pattern: You want a tight grain pattern that is running fairly straight and parallel with the motion of swing. Maul head: should be dull, not sharp. Maul head weight: 4. Axe vs Maul Infographic. To know the realities that axe vs maul firstly everyone have to know the reasonable definition of the tools. A splitting axe is a tool that also mentions a survival weapon generally designs to split along the grain of the wood to break the fiber apart.
In the case of cutting the big tree or wood, the axe is not appropriate. When the user swings the axe own on the wood surface, the force manages to chop or cut wood in needed shape.
At present axe manufacturer mainly made the part of the head in steel metal. Generally, an ideal axe comes in weight under 3 to 6 pounds but there are variants of course.
Commonly they are less heavy than splitting mauls, and can be used in different ways for a long period of time. In the point of axe blade they are Sharpe enough comes under 3 to 5 feet in length. The axe handles made of wood, plastic or steel and also comes in various handle lengths like 14 inches to 37 inches.
So you can take according to your need. In the definition of the maul, we can say that it is a tool that uses to cut down the tree and big size log or wood. It is heavier than axe. At old days maul has a wedge-shaped head but modern creator upgrades it with conical or sub- wedge heads. Explicitly saying comes in two heads in which one is holding a sharpener axe head and the backside poll can be used as a hammer.
Essentially, you could say a maul is just a huge sledge hammer which splits wood through sheer force. For large pieces of wood, the maul is ideal. When it comes to axes, there are two types: felling and splitting axes. Both have very different functions. Felling axes are designed to slice into the wood, across the fibers. Thereby breaking the fibers apart.
Firstly, the thin blade cuts deeply into the wood and then, as the force of the axes continues, the wood is separated by the thicker part of the head near the handle.
Any wood chips are dispelled at this point. In other words, mauls and splitting axes are very closely related and perform the same function. However, felling axes have a completely different purpose and design. A splitting maul is sometimes also called a sledge axe or a hamaxe , because the design of the head resembles a sledgehammer on one side and an axe on the other side. In fact, a splitting maul is technically considered a hammer by some definitions , and not an axe at all.
Due to the half sledgehammer, half wedge shape, splitting maul heads are typically pounds heavier than splitting axe heads. And an average splitting maul head will weigh pounds. If you compare the head of a splitting maul with a felling axe, the weight difference can be even larger, because felling axe heads tend to be flatter and lighter.
Another thing to note about mauls is the way that they split wood. Whereas a felling axe is designed to cut or chop through wood against the grain, a splitting maul is designed to split wood apart using leverage along the grain.
Finally, another notable difference between mauls, splitting axes, and felling axes is the handle design. Mauls tend to have a slightly longer handle, that is straight and round shaped.
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