Anybody use one of these?

https://www.chopper1axe.com/store/p/country-feast-set-3n5x4

In campfire tradition, I'm not going to answer your question, but give you an opinion anyway.

Honestly, the Fiskars maul is like 40% of the price, and is so good I'm not using wedge and sledge any more. One shot on pine, and 3-4 blows on 24" live oak rounds for the initial split. Fewer blows once dealing with halves etc... This doesn't sound great, until you've dealt with live oak.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Fiskars...rglass-Core-Handle-751110-1004/300703984

I've used one absolute garbage in my opinion. Fiskars is about the best I've ever used. For the price and the functionality

I've got a Fiskars hatchet that I really like.
I hate using a wedge.


Live Oak is tough sawed/split a bunch here in the SE.

For a wunderblitz schplitter, there sure were a lot of them around here in yard sales in the past. That would be my clue.

Never used one, but can't really accept an axe or maul with moving parts!
If I want moving parts then an engine and hydraulics will be involved.

And...you can buy a small electric splitter for about the same price.

Amazon $84 , I wouldn't pay $140 retail at easy-go chopper.

I tried one Did not work for me. Might work if splitting Knot free wood.

Chips-N-Dips aint gonna be splittin any wood.

ninja please

Everything around a woodpile eventually gets dull and Chopper One would be a true life futhermucker to restore its edge.

I've been using the Fiskars for three years. It is the best splitter I've used in 50+ years of swinging one.

Got a 17yr old my splitten days is ovr 🤪

The contraption or similar has been around for decades.

After all that the basic splitting maul still rules for hand use.

I found, late in the game that one with an axe handle type was much better for me that the round sledge hammer type handles, but just me. .

Nothing seems to beat a good swing, even with the heavy monster type mauls out there. IME

I had one of those, for about a month when I unloaded it on the next poor guy looking for a better gadget. A Fiskars splitting axe is a much better tool, mostly for straighter grain wood. Gnarly stuff deserves a log splitter rental.

Would add $900 and buy a gas wood splitter from Tractor Supply....they have "0" interest for a year.....thats how I bought mine less than $75 a month....

I've had one from Tractor Supply that I bought in the early 90's best money I've spent....

I saw one of the Easy-Go splitters on E-bay- $45 >yeah.

I have a Monster Maul that I used for many years. It was the best maul I had ever used, I thought it could not be beaten. Then, 3 years ago I broke down and bought the Fiskars.
I hate to admit it, but it is better than the Monster Maul. It is lighter weight, and splits wood better.

Never used an Easy Go Chopper.

A co-worker and I invented something like that about thirty years ago, during a coffee break. We called it the Wham Bam Woodsplitter and even laid out the (very successful) marketing campaign. Sadly the idea was stillborn, and like many of our other "can't miss" ideas, (the Bear Scare, the Rescue Me signal balloon) never made it to market. GD

Doesn't look heavy enough.

Off topic a bit, dad was a pretty tough old lumberjack and he taught me how to crack wood with a double bitted axe by letting it roll over after contacting the wood, thereby leveraging the block apart. It used the opposite end of the axe as a counterweight to pry wood open. It often throws wood a few feet with violent force. It's very effective and punches way above it's weight. It works with all axes and even cruiser axes but the big double bitted axes are best.

But honestly, I split most of my wood with the chainsaw for a few reasons. One, it's easiest. You don't even break a sweat. Second, I can stack that square or rectangular shaped wood nicely in the stove for tight overnight fires. It also stacks nicely to make the ends of the wood pile so I don't need posts at the ends of the stacks to hold the pile up. Lastly, I used the long curly shavings in my shrub beds and garden for compost and ground cover to keep the weeds down.

You can see the chainsaw-split ones at the near end.

I have a buddy that is an artist at splitting with a double bit, as you described, swat-pow, the Doug fir just flies. I built a hi speed diesel engine hyd splitter that although fast...it can't hold a candle to my friend. I could never master the timing...most of the time I'm too early or too late with the 'twist'.

Speed kills.

-Roy Weatherby-

Mine has a Honda engine.

I second on the monster maul. Crazy power, crazy good !

It's not hard, just practice a little. It rings when that big old axe hits it's side and sends a chunk flying. I guess I could make a short video of it...

Another nice thing about the technique, you don't go bashing through a soft one and sink your nice sharp tool into the dirt, gravel or concrete!

My woodspiltter has this 12 horse engine thingy, and some hydraulic levers and thingys, and works pretty bad ass........

I doubt that contraption would work the best on some good hard Osage Orange.

Or elm, or beech, or any of the trash oak we burn in the stove.

"just practice a little" LOL...Been at this for 3/4ths of a century...in my case, you can lead a klutz to an axe...but you can't give him hand/eye coordination.

I can assure you that this contraption does not work on American chestnut either!

Back when I was a strapping youth and trying to spit some American chestnut trunk for us to burn in the house, I would pound that axe flush with a sledge - and the round still didn't split sometimes.

/John

Hold the axe tight until it hits, lighten your grip after giving the axe a slight twist and let inertia of the axe falling sideways do the splitting. You have to control the axe again after it falls over so it doesn't end up off in space willy nilly.