Thread: Block Splitter

How well would the Fiskars unit stand up to being belted with a sledge-hammer?

My wood is so damn tough that I use the heaviest splitter I can find, and then often have to belt the splitter head with a heavy sledge hammer because the splitter gets stuck in the wood block.

Which results in occasional broken splitter handles...not because I hit the handle with the sledge, but because the severe vibration causes the handle to split lengthways.

Would the Fiskars splitter stand up to this treatment?

Alan

I'd say yes! We used to go through a splitter a year, our fiskars is going great into its second year, and is still like new.

Originally Posted by Rurover

How well would the Fiskars unit stand up to being belted with a sledge-hammer?

My wood is so damn tough that I use the heaviest splitter I can find, and then often have to belt the splitter head with a heavy sledge hammer because the splitter gets stuck in the wood block.

Which results in occasional broken splitter handles...not because I hit the handle with the sledge, but because the severe vibration causes the handle to split lengthways.

Would the Fiskars splitter stand up to this treatment?

Alan

G'day Alan,

Perhaps you could soften up the block of wood with the block buster and then use some steel wedges that are designed to be hit with a sledge hammer? It will preserve the life of your block busters.

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For nasty stuff it is common to have a number of wedges on hand.

Kind Regards
Lionel

The Fiskars instructions SPECIFICALLY say NOT to use it as a wedge.

I got one of the x27 splitters a week or two ago. HUGE improvement from my old traditional log splitter.

They have some sort of teflon surface that makes it slice through easily. The only down side is that, before if the splitter got stuck I'd lift the wood and the splitter and have another go (with the wood on the end of the splitter). The Fiskars is so 'slippery' that you can't pick up the wood - it slides out.

Also - they are very light (hollow handle) compared to a normal splitter.

I've hit mine with a sledge a couple of times, wouldn't make a habit of it but it's survived no problems. Agree on the wedges, I use the backside of the fiskars on a wedge occasionally if I'm too lazy to get the sledge out.

Spud, after a few years the surface will come to bits (see my pics) and it will stick in more like a normal splitter (but not as much because of the shape I think).

Also ... There were instructions ... I don't read instructions for brute force tools ... Takes all the fun out of it

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Marty,

Yes it might be the way to go as I suppose you don't need a forklift to carry a Fiskars around either!

Kind Regards
Lionel

It weighs 47kg, and has wheels both ends, also I thought I'd test out splitting some wood using a 2 ton jack on some of our firewood at home, seem to work with the primitive setup I made up.

We are thinking of buying one.

Baz.

So I succumbed to peer group pressure and bought one.

I raced home from work with the perfect test piece in mind...a piece of yellow box that was cut through where one trunk forks into two, probably about 70cm across the widest part of the "double trunk" end. Sorry does that make sense?? The missus burnt the bits before I got a chance to happy snap them.

On the outside edges, where the grain was straight, the fiskars was easily up to the task. Very different to swing than a more traditional block splitter but very nice. Where the two trunks met and the grain was all crossed up, the fiskars just seemed to cut a wedge shape into the block and stick in. I needed the extra weight of my old splitter to crunch the block apart.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not unhappy with my purchase but I thought it was an interesting test.

Off to split some more wood,regards

Marty.

Cheers Marty.

I've always wondered how a Fiskars would stand up to the gnarly White and Yellow Box around here.

Hopefully moving soon so won't have to deal with hard as hell Boxes, just nice, straight gained Gums !