Chopper Wooden Axe - # 1 Splitting Maul Powerful Log Action Spring Activated Levers Separate Wood 6.25# Cast Iron Head 32'' Hickory Handle Camping, Stoves & Firewood, Brown Steel

I've had this product over a month now. I've used it just for splitting wood. In total I have used if for about 42 hours. Spent 3 hours straight hacking at wood around my work. Craftsmanship on this axe is a ok. Could see someone had used it before the black paint doesn't cover the whole axe head. The handle looks somewhat ok almost as if it was done in a rush. But one thing to note is that this axe is very difficult to split wood if it's still green or just too big, meaning the spring contraption on there stops the axe head to go in deeper to successfully spilt the log into two or so. Would be great to just use as a splitter axe for stumps less than 1 1/2 foot in height. But it is pretty heavy just you'll spend alot of time trying to split the wood. Also I had to sharpen my axe it was duller than a teaspoon. Also the silicone cover is somewhat appreciated but something bigger would be best.Tldr: great axe for small wood stumps, was dull, blade sheath is ok but could be better, craftsmanship was a ok not best.

Awful axe. Head snapped clean off after about a week of use. The pins holding the splitting jaws came out 2nd to 3rd swing so I had to keep putting them back in; ended up just ditching the jaws entirely.

This thing is amazing

I bought this because it looked like a splitter my nephew has. I liked his so I thought I would get a similar one.Out of the box it looked good so this morning I took it for a test drive. It worked best on logs 8 to 9 inches in diameter. It had trouble with bigger stuff. The blade is like a split mal so it isn't sharp but with spring assist it split OK. So problem 1: didn't handle much of my pile.The second problem became obvious oddly enough, on the second log. It was a 9 inch diameter and I hit the log, it didn't split, but I noticed that the handle had slipped out of the head about 3/8 of an inch. So I tapped it back in. Second issue:handle not tightly attached..The third issue was the pin on the spring assist lever. It flew out and was a bear to find in the saw dust. It wasn't hard to put back in, but should never come out during usage. Third issue: Badly assembled/poor construction..Finally. It really wasn't much better than a splitting mal. It worked but not nearly as well as I expected after using my nephew's version.Not great. Not even good.

Works great.

Yup 30 years ago I had the same type of mal , man that thing was awesome 😎 ! it's would bust up rounds all the way up to 30 inch and more with no problem!!Unfortunately I gave up my old to somone that could use it more thin I did and used it continuously for close to 7 years till it fell apart on him!And didn't even try to bring replacement parts, Aw well It being mechanical you can't expect it to last forever! But it did last for some time and did what it was designed to do!So when I saw this one I got pretty stoked on getting a nother one!!Wow looks and feels like I rememberedLike my older one It would not win any a beauty contest and ya it's a little rough around the edges much like my older one but one big difference from my old one to this one is the cutting edge!Yes it is a mal so the edge is short and has a wider taper down to the cutting edge but unlike my old one this has NO cutting edge the black line on this new one is pretty much a 4mm wide flat edge!To use this one can be compare to using a butter knife cut a old tough steak!Ya you can get it done but man it's going to require putting more work into it!Wow has Quality control changed that much?

My error is I didn't relate to the length of the handle. I would have been happy to pay more for a handle three to four inches longer. The error is mine not Amazon but I am happy to have learned from my lack of investigation.

Buyer Beware.Purchased as we have lots of wood we chop regularly, about a half ton every year, and it the videos about these axes looked pretty good. After a few weeks of normal usage (about 2-3 trees worth of chopping), the axe head shattered upon impact right along the mechanism, into about 3 pieces of the axe head and the mechanism broke out. The metal material on these seems to be made of the fabled "Chinesium", as to say a very poorly made metal. For reference, all tools that I use are put away and regularly cleaned and honed so as too keep them in good condition, and I have gone back to my 9 year old splitting axe since.After that surprising and scary experience, I immediately returned this item, as it was broken from normal use and was genuinely dangerous. If you need to chop wood regularly for firewood at home, please make sure you get a high quality axe that wont potentially end you up on the hospital due to poor construction, and make sure to take care of it.