What is your favorite splitting maul for large oak rounds ?

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What is your favorite splitting maul for big rounds like oak ?

Do have the Fiskars isocore splitting maul and quite a bit of vibration on the larger oak rounds.
Also have the Fiskars X27 and same in regard to vibration on large rounds.
Would like to try a wood handle splitting maul.

Thanks
 
My personal fave is a Rinaldi 5.5lb splitting maul but they're a little hard to get right now. I also quite enjoy the vintage 6lb no-name standard American maul I refurbished recently. Ground it down nice and THIN and that puppy can buck if you have to.
 
I believe it was called a "wood grenade" .:p Had it forever and recently bought a similar design copy .

Works about as well as anything manual , on those stubborn oak rounds and similar .

Never found anything really easy . 🤷‍♂️
 
DocJD said:
I believe it was called a "wood grenade" .:p Had it forever and recently bought a similar design copy .

Works about as well as anything manual , on those stubborn oak rounds and similar .

Never found anything really easy . 🤷‍♂️
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Will give one a try. Those large oak rounds are a beast. Thank you
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
My personal fave is a Rinaldi 5.5lb splitting maul but they're a little hard to get right now. I also quite enjoy the vintage 6lb no-name standard American maul I refurbished recently. Ground it down nice and THIN and that puppy can buck if you have to.
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Do you have a picture of it ? Thank You
 
Azula Gun Holsters said:
Will give one a try. Those large oak rounds are a beast. Thank you
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You might want several wedges for the kind with knots .

I use the heavy ( 12lb IIRC ? ) red all steel maul on the clear pieces . No idea what name or where I got it .

I can't really swing that thing . Just raise it high overhead and let her drop . ☺️ Magic when it works .
 
Fiskars makes excellent tools. The X27 is a great splitting axe. They also make the IsoCore 8lb splitting maul. I have 2 of each and I love them. I like the splitting maul the most because I can pound splitting wedges with it when I split something stubborn.
 
A little blurry but this is all I've got for now (I'm juggling a handful of important things at the moment so don't have time to retake the photos) The Rinaldi being slip-fit is able to be on this shorty handle for small stuff or swapped out onto a full-size handle for rounds or extra tough, gnarly targets. The vintage maul was given a nice true taper with a high centerline and brought thin behind the bit, on a 28" handle as a mid-size splitter, though it handles the big stuff easier than you'd think. Getting it wedged was a bit awkward since the eye tapered in all directions, so in addition to the cross wedge I had to sink three conical wedges in it, but it's good and tight now.

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FortyTwoBlades said:
A little blurry but this is all I've got for now (I'm juggling a handful of important things at the moment so don't have time to retake the photos) The Rinaldi being slip-fit is able to be on this shorty handle for small stuff or swapped out onto a full-size handle for rounds or extra tough, gnarly targets. The vintage maul was given a nice true taper with a high centerline and brought thin behind the bit, on a 28" handle as a mid-size splitter, though it handles the big stuff easier than you'd think. Getting it wedged was a bit awkward since the eye tapered in all directions, so in addition to the cross wedge I had to sink three conical wedges in it, but it's good and tight now.

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Looking good. Appreciate the pics, thank you
 
jfk1110 said:
Hardwoods are a tough find by you I gather by the pile of pine....Are they lodgepole? Or some other fir family??.
Nice splitting it though...
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Very observant jfk1110 jfk1110 .

I wished we had access to hardwoods, but our proverbial neck of the Northern woods only carries white and black spruce. Sometimes gnarly and twisted, other time straight grained; the latter much preferred obviously.
 
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