I won't be switching. Working up firewood by hand takes energy, and then you have to go pick up another load and do it all over again. Dad told me that if you have a good hand shucking corn, you unload for him. If he shucks and then has to unload, he won't be able to shuck like he did on the first load. I gave up splitting by hand at 58 because my right elbow couldn't stand it anymore. This is a beautiful axe, though. It's hand forged and made just for splitting wood. The handle is hand made, by splitting the hickory rather than sawing. That insures that there is no runout in the grain, which can wreck your day on a tough chunk of wood. Anyhow, if you look up this axe on line you will see that one can be yours for $600.
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Well, I can buy a lot of decent axes, mauls and wedges for what a Granfors Bruk axe would cost.
I like good tools, but I prefer ones I pick up for cheap and fix up. Wranglerstar likes expensive knives and work apparel, too, much more than I do! I used to split firewood with a wood handled splitting maul, and made the switch to a Monster Maul. Our hardwoods will often make a turn on the piece you are splitting, and the handle will get a fatal strike as the wood splits. I changed many handles. That Doug-fir he is splitting behaves pretty well, making straight lines. I still would want to use our hydraulic splitter.
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