Best maul for me

[heavy hammer]

Grizzerbear I have the 20 lb sledge it was great for demo jobs with destroying concrete slabs driveways etc. But it takes it out of you, it will drive a wedge through any piece of wood to. Their maul is a beast as well I have no complaints.

 

[Grizzerbear]

Grizzerbear I have the 20 lb sledge it was great for demo jobs with destroying concrete slabs driveways etc. But it takes it out of you, it will drive a wedge through any piece of wood to. Their maul is a beast as well I have no complaints.

20lb! Good lord john henry lol. I will have to give them a look. I for sure love my sledge. I like the handle design with the steel rods embedded inside running to the head. Does the maul vibrate much to the hands?

 

[Woody Stover]

20lb! Good lord john henry lol. I will have to give them a look. I for sure love my sledge.

Yikes, the Monstah about kills me at 12#.
Sledge and wedge is awesome.

 

[heavy hammer]

No vibration at all but it takes it out of you swinging it. I like Wilton's products very tough design.

 

[MTY]

I'll have to look for one of these 20 pounders. I have to collapse the old cistern this spring. I pretended I was teeing off with the 12 pounder and put a couple of cracks in one of the walls as a test. The 20 should do some damage, if not to me to the wall. To stay on topic, I might even try splitting some bull pine with it.

 

[Ashful]

I Like using a bunge with a chain to hold the splits together. Easy to adjust to any size.

Ditto. This is the way to go. Any round small enough to actually fit in a typical tire, I’m picking it up and setting it on my splitter, or at least setting the splitter vertical to walk the round onto the foot plate. The only stuff I hand split is probably at least 36” in diameter, and I don’t want to store a tire that big in my back yard.

 

[Ashful]

Oh, and everyone should watch the video linked in this post. Note the chain and bungee or strap.
Not only does @AlbergSteve know his way around a splitting axe, he’ll make you one bad ass espresso when he’s done. A true renaissance man.

This year I've upgraded to a Fiskars 8lb IsoCore from some cheap splitting axes that I've been using for years, what a difference! I find it a good balance between a splitting axe and a monster maul and can swing it for a couple of hours without issue. Splitting is a bit of a Zen exercise for me, I don't go into the wood pile and start swinging like a helicopter like some guys do. I find the narrower axes (X27) tend to stick in the wood and the monster maul is a bit blunt and tends to twist a lot, playing havoc with my wrists and hands. This past winter and spring I split over 12 cords of cedar and Doug fir.

Here's my IsoCore maul in action...

 

[Easy Livin’ 3000]

Ditto. This is the way to go. Any round small enough to actually fit in a typical tire, I’m picking it up and setting it on my splitter, or at least setting the splitter vertical to walk the round onto the foot plate. The only stuff I hand split is probably at least 36” in diameter, and I don’t want to store a tire that big in my back yard.

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Good point.

I've noticed tires changing on this type of heavy equipment, gone are solid sidewalls and holding air, now the sidewalls are open grids. No more flat tires. But I digress...

 

[AlbergSteve]

Oh, and everyone should watch the video linked in this post. Note the chain and bungee or strap.
Not only does @AlbergSteve know his way around a splitting axe, he’ll make you one bad ass espresso when he’s done. A true renaissance man.

You should see my pie making skills in action...