New way to chop wood

Anyone got experience? Looks pretty sweet. $250 for the thing.

How in the hell does he justify $250 for that? I’ll admit, it looks cool, but that is insane markup.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

How in the hell does he justify $250 for that? I’ll admit, it looks cool, but that is insane markup.

Agree. Would get one of these for half the price.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200640136_200640136

-J.

Time is money!!!

If it works as shown the time saved over the years would pay off big time. $250 rod and reel combos are average nowadays, $250 to make chores more efficient which leads to more boat time would be well worth it IMO.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

How in the hell does he justify $250 for that? I’ll admit, it looks cool, but that is insane markup.

nhamm is right,, time is money,, that’s how you justify it.. If I was a wood guy and the thing worked way better than the $20 one I was using ,,I’d be standing in line with a fist full of cash.

$250 down payment on a motorized splitter.

SuperDave1959 wrote:

$250 down payment on a motorized spliter.

Lol, good point!

It’s an interesting concept to prevent the maul from sticking, that’s for sure. I would think the 90 degree twisting of the tool in your hands on every swing would get tiring very quickly.

Also, I’m sure how well it works depends on what you’re splitting. Anyone can split dry softwoods or straight grain wood like ash. I remember once we had a stand of ash that got flooded by a beaver pond. When that dead dry ash was frozen, even the biggest pieces split with an camp axe.

I’d like to see the Leveraxe take on a piece of twisted old wet elm. That’d be the proof in the pudding.

Grouse

Grouse beat me to it. I heat with wood to the tune of just under 6 cords a year. The video is shown splitting birch. I also saw aspen and others. I’m not going to say a wet piece of elm, but lets see some hardwood split and then we’ll talk. I borrow a 36 ton splitter from a logger for $100 a weekend and get all the wood split and stacked in that time. I’m sorry, but I can get the size pieces I want and it’s with oak, ash and elm. I’m not immune to work, but unless all wood is going to split like that (and it doesn’t) I’m sticking with the hydraulic splitter.

One other comment: They were taking off some pretty small pieces.

Just yesterday I tackled about a cord of twisted wet elm. No way would this thing handle it. Anything with knots would be a challenge for it. Any wood he can do that with can probably be split with a double bit ax and knowing how to use it- – jerr

remember, dry birch is also key!!!

Right Tom, I split all my wood for winter and know even with a powered splitter some wood can become, an is every year, hard to split. Any wood, except elm splits easier then most woods, then theres the knoty stuff in any wood. The $250.00 doesn’t justify the price to me because that’s a down payment for a decent used hydraulic splitter. If your either young or splitting just enough wood for a few days then this would work, but try putting up 7 to 10 cords for all winter use and I think most guys would be looking for a hydraulic splitter. The price is probably the way it is because the inventor is trying to make as much as he can before someone patents around his idea, then the price will drop.

I you need to split wood quick, like on a very cold day, you do just like this guy did and split small pieces from the edge in and that would work for most woods. Even this dry birch down through the middle it wouldn’t have split so easy, but their trying to sell. It looks like theres some thought put into the design and looks like it may work a little better then other hand methods but to me the price is too much. Another guy and myself can split a lot of wood and 2 gallons of gas. Ive got a friend that usually helps me split and I give him $20 bucks to help and that amount usually gets me about 1 1/2 cords of wood split down small for the wife.

let me give this guy a decent piece of wood for a fire & his video will be about 1 hour long to split it and nobody would be buying one….