Gransfors Bruks.

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Srbenda

Burning Hunk
Dec 27, 2009
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PA Horse Country
Yeah, I bought some of this Swedish wood-cutting action.
I already had an adze, and now I've added a splitting maul, and a Gransfors wedge.

Am I drinking the kool-aid, or is this stuff worth the extra coin?

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Not unless it stacks the wood too!

I thought I was splurging buying the Fiskars Super Splitter. If your buying that stuff you're not drinking kool aid, but Don Perignon.
 
Looks like a real nice maul. I would say it was worth the extra, I own two Gransfors Bruks axes and I love the quality of them. You won't be disappointed
 
I have one as well. I love mine. Very well built and great feel to it.
 
Battenkiller said:
Just look how it busts these huge rounds. Some only took one whack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TC1igEWZXc&NR=1

You'd never get through those these gnarly brutes with a Fiskars. Why spend $40 for a SS when you can blow $175 for this beauty?

I think they cut off the camera before the maul went and got the guy and beer and started stacking the wood.
 
nonetheless said:
I think they cut off the camera before the maul went and got the guy and beer and started stacking the wood.

Yeah, too bad. I would have loved to see how that maul stacks those shorties. :lol:

Here's the American Felling axe doing its thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQOJEsIrl0&feature=related

God, this guy is worse than the last one. He might as well have used a sledge hammer the way he's cutting that truck. I wonder if they think they are doing Gransfors any favors with these vids.

FWIW, I'm really a huge GB fan. My friend Geoff Burke is a GB distributor and actually helped design the American Felling Axe for them. Geoff would have gotten through that small trunk in about eight or ten well placed swings.

I have the Wildlife hatchet and it is a little gem. Not very handy for much, but hey. Still, I would never spend that much for a maul. Just how is this thing that much superior to any other 6# maul? The great beauty in a hand forged axe is in the superiority of the cutting edge and the fine tuning of the geometry of the blade. Why do you need such refinement to bust blocks of wood in two? I'm sure it would be welcome in my tool collection, just as long as it's on someone else's credit card.
 
MMMM...Hmmm. That is one fine poison ivy vine chopper.

Seriously I'm sure it is well crafted, and if I was loaded then maybe. I'd make a rack for it in my Bugatti.
 
Battenkiller said:
Just look how it busts these huge rounds.
You must be kidding. Those little shorties? I can split those with just a stern look. My wood is bucked around 20 - 22 inches, not that shortie 8 inch stuff that I just toss to the side.

I'm not saying Gransfors doesn't make a good axe but I wouldn't go for one of those with a straight handle.
 
LLigetfa said:
Battenkiller said:
Just look how it busts these huge rounds.
You must be kidding. Those little shorties? I can split those with just a stern look. My wood is bucked around 20 - 22 inches, not that shortie 8 inch stuff that I just toss to the side.

You know, I really need to use more smilies.
 
Buying nice things like this is totally relative to 1. one's income and 2. one's priorities. I would never pay more than $40 for a device that I'm gonna smash wood with and, inevitably, the ground, rocks, my shins, etc. However, $3K on an Omega Seamaster or $9K for a Rolex DEEPSEA, which'll last a lifetime and pass on to my son, is a different story.

S
 
If it helps, I bought it used, and got it for about 1/2 of normal retail.
That's the only reason I sprang for it.

Still, it's a lot of coin for a blunt instrument....
 
Battenkiller said:
Just look how it busts these huge rounds. Some only took one whack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TC1igEWZXc&NR=1

You'd never get through those these gnarly brutes with a Fiskars. Why spend $40 for a SS when you can blow $175 for this beauty?

I wouldn't split anything like that by hand because I know better....lol. My fiskars is for WAY smaller logs (of course I have the Pro Splitting axe...)

I can rent a splitter off CList for $50 a day ;)
 
Srbenda said:
If it helps, I bought it used, and got it for about 1/2 of normal retail.
That's the only reason I sprang for it.

Still, it's a lot of coin for a blunt instrument....

They guy you bought it from probably took your money and bought two Fiskars. :lol:
 
I don't doubt the quality of this product at all. However, those videos certainly do the company no good. Geeze, my wife could split those little things easier with an axe!
 
Srbenda said:
If it helps, I bought it used, and got it for about 1/2 of normal retail.

Don't you wonder why the guy was selling it?

Even for half that price, I'd want the "Moses" maul. You know, the one that parts the wood with just a wave of the arm?
 
I went onto the website today after reading another post and I gotta tell ya - I want one of those beauties. There's someting about a well crafted tool that just does it for me. I always appreciate working with a fine, well designed and aethestically pleasing tool. I'm thinking of the small splitting axe for the half splits and below. A lighter tool for those jobs just seem to work better than a heavier one designed for full rounds.
 
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