Lever Ax Vipukirves

Darn it, just bought my Fiskars last year!

P.S. At 193 euros, I will keep my $50 Fiskars.
 
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That's $266 US. A nice tool, but too expensive for me.

It looks like it will last a lifetime. If you chop wood, and if this works as advertised on oak and maple, this probably cuts your time and effort in half. $266 is a small price to pay if you're going to use it more than a few times.
 
Not a General Purpose tool. If you're a guy who has a list : " Axe , one , cool. - check " and moves on to the next thing ; this aint it. but

If you chop enough wood that you have a few different axes for the work , then this one looks awesome as another tool in the box.
 
I'm not convinced that it's going to work as advertised on some of the dense, twisted stuff we have around here.
 
I for once would like to see how it handles some different types of wood. or at least take a regular axe and show the difference on the same wood he was splitting.
 
I for once would like to see how it handles some different types of wood. or at least take a regular axe and show the difference on the same wood he was splitting.

Yeah the conditions in that video were about as optimum as it gets.
 
The idea of it twisting, and stopping more-or-less short on each chop worries me.

I went through 3-4 cords of mostly oak last fall- plenty of the logs were as wide as they were long, and I had to spall off 4-5 outside sections, then split the center. I used a one-piece steel splitting maul, and that worked well.

And yeah, at $200+ that's a lot....
 
So does it twist in your hand? It sounds like you'd end up with a sore wrist or something like tennis elbow.

I love the tire trick. I've never used it but I need to try it out.
 
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