Vipukirves Leveraxe

[Charles Wiggins]

Anyone used one of these? How does it do on knotty or cross-grained logs?

http://vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm

[Eric DeSilva]

I've seen them before, but never used one. Looks like the twisting action could be pretty violent when the head hits a piece of wood--I'd be worried that the axe might twist out of your grip if you hit something really dense. At best, it can't be really comfortable to have that happen at the bottom of every swing...

[Bill Huber]

There are a lot of videos on You Tube on it, it looks kind of neat but I would say it not going to be as good as a hydraulic splitter....:D

[Dave Richards]

There are a lot of videos on You Tube on it, it looks kind of neat but I would say it not going to be as good as a hydraulic splitter....:D

I don't know Bill. Take a look: http://youtu.be/lTag8CLWeqw :D

[curtis rosche]

after reading their stuff,,,, it sounds like who ever wrote it never split much wood with a maul. If done right you can make it do what you want. Their description of their tool just seems to make it easier for the person who doesn't know what they are doing

[Bill ThompsonNM]

Actually the Logmatic video under that one looked more interesting. A slide hammer wedge for splitting.
Though I really like the feel of hefting up a maul and 'whack!' The split wood builds up in the crisp autumn air. Hard to beat it!

[Brian Elfert]

The Leveraxe costs approximately 155 Euros plus 48 Euros shipping. Pretty expensive to me. I think I would rather just rent a hydraulic splitter every year instead of paying 205 Euros for this device. Supposedly the high cost is because they are made by hand. The maker says he isn't selling enough to have them made on a production line. (Gee, I wonder if the high price is why they aren't selling.)

They do have a video showing the Leveraxe splitting a large chunk of wood into a number of pieces in the same time it takes a hydraulic splitter to do just one split. One has to wonder if the video was staged with the wood for the Levaraxe being very easy to split.

[Charles Wiggins]

I think I would rather just rent a hydraulic splitter every year instead of paying 205 Euros for this device.

I could borrow a splitter if I wanted to. At whatever point I want to get a power splitter I'll just buy one because we have a firewood ministry at church and when we have a "firewood party" we always need another splitter running. If I were going to drop bills on one, I don't think I'd go hydraulic though. I'd spend a little more and get one of the flywheel models like the Super Split (http://youtu.be/uPrC5PS9MY8) or DR RapidFire (http://youtu.be/MpmuZwdlPrc).

[Bill Huber]

I could borrow a splitter if I wanted to. At whatever point I want to get a power splitter I'll just buy one because we have a firewood ministry at church and when we have a "firewood party" we always need another splitter running. If I were going to drop bills on one, I don't think I'd go hydraulic though. I'd spend a little more and get one of the flywheel models like the Super Split (http://youtu.be/uPrC5PS9MY8) or DR RapidFire (http://youtu.be/MpmuZwdlPrc).

Charles, this is what you need, why just one split at a time.....;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be_ZVY0LOh0

[Charles Wiggins]

Charles, this is what you need, why just one split at a time.....;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be_ZVY0LOh0

I've seen that puppy before. Pretty cool, but it takes all the fun out of it.