This ingenious device was invented by a young New Zealand girl and made in Australia. To bad, it's already been copied by to many copycats. It's available direct through the link, NORTHERN TOOLS or AMAZON. There are two sizes, depending on the throat size. I bought the XL size.

It used to take me hours to split enough 6-8+" rounds of seasoned oak to last a week. I used a 4# steel wedge and an 8# long handle sledge hammer. But with this tool, it takes me 15 minutes using a short handle 4# sledge hammer which is much less tiring.

https://www.kindlingcracker.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Kindlin...litter/dp/B0725RRRS5

Mine gets used a bit. The real challenge is to get the bucks down to a size that will fit in the throat.

so does a hydraulic wood spliter

One of the best things I ever bought.

Here you go, a wood spliter that's little unconventional:




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8A6gUN-iw

Which size do you use?

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Originally posted by az4783054:
This ingenious device was invented by a young New Zealand girl and made in Australia.....
It used to take me hours to split enough 6-8+" rounds of seasoned oak to last a week. I used a 4# steel wedge and an 8# long handle sledge hammer. But with this tool, it takes me 15 minutes using a short handle 4# sledge hammer which is much less tiring....

Nice looking product! If I didn't have a huge quantity of white pine limbs laying around as well as a hydraulic splitter I'd buy one!

I will keep the jackson's and just keep using my ax and chopping block

You guys,
First it was chain saws ,then safety gear, next came splitters,
The Log Ox came up,
Now this,

This "hobby" is starting to sound like bass fishing and quilting.

Every month there's a new gizmo, gadget, gee gaw or Jim jam.

They actually work pretty well. My wife uses it to split up small wood for starting fires. Definitely not something you'd use on an 18" oak

When we had 3 families burning wood, we used to split 10-12 cords of wood per year. Even with the burly hydraulic splitter that my brother-in-law built, this was a daunting task. We're now now down to 5-6 cords per year. I still don't consider this process either "quick" or "fun".

We split Ponderosa pine from our family ranch. Any branches or tree trunks under maybe 6" in diameter are essentially thrown away -- we just toss them into gullies to reduce erosion. The small stuff just isn't worth our time. Our largest trunks are around 30" in diameter, although most trees have trunks in the 18-24" ballpark.

It does make me wonder about McGyvering a different blade for the hydraulic splitter.