Sledge⋀ said:
Northerntool sells something akin to the initial post as well, I'd imagine harder wood and anything larger than a 10" round laughs at it.
Hansson said:
I have tried it.It`s sucks !
Ave anyone tried this one?
http://www.vipukirves.fi/etusivu.htm
I have not tried the axe but have three thoughts on it:
1- At 190 euro or 280 US dollars, they're out of their mind!
2- Even knowing that the design is meant to induce a twisting force upon impact, that blade is Very narrow, which spells getting stuck if striking anywhere near the middle of a bigger round. I guess it's easily argued you never really need to strike near the middle, but popping a small to medium size round in half is plain fun and at a 10th of the cost, a plain 6 or 8lb maul does an amazing job.
3- What about stringy, tough wood? once you create a crack there is no way you're plowing that thing through to finish a tough split.
It's interesting, but even if it were reasonably priced I think it would end up being the gimmick that collected dust behind my all purpose, plain jane mauls.
It is regrettable that there are such people who have strong opinnions about things of which they do not understand anything.
The person above writes as he would be professional though he has NOT used the LEVERAXE.
Here are my answers to those arguments.
1-Does it make the tool bad if it is expensive? For instance,do you consider ferrari as bad car?
2-The LEVERAXE NEVER sticks into the wood. It penetrates to the wood only 5 millimeters on an optimum strike. It spreads the wood up to 8 centimetres. The friction is almost nonexistent. The axeblade remains ON the block. It does NOT go throw the block. It will NOT hurt yourself.
The harder the wood is the better the leverage funktions. During this nearly 3 years marketing there has NOT happened any accidents, not a single one.
3-We have some stringly, tough wood here in Finland,too. I do NOT see any problems in splittign them. I have used all kind of conventional axes during my 60 years career among the firewood and I must say that the LEVERAXE is definitely the best axe what I have ever had.
I will strongly ask you to visit my websites and study this new tool. This is the very fist axe that funktions with leverage. It has built in safety features in purpose that one cannot hurt him(her)self during the splitting. If you do not understand how this axe operates then please, do NOT speculate.
All the best from Finland.
Regards the inventor.
www.vipukirves.fi and
www.vipukirves.net