I have my suspicions that they’ve picked some easy to split straight grained logs for the promo vid.

http://www.mnn.com/family/protection-safety/stories/weve-been-splitting-wood-all-wrong

Do a search. It’s been done before I think

Nevertheless, I like it. That’s an experienced axe man.

Indeed it has lot of wasted effort walking around in circles there.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/axe-reinvented

I wish I could have a wood burner then I too could have an axe. MrsS just doesn’t see the attraction.

Cheers Drac, I thought I’d seen something similar before. A bit like reinventing the wheel ………size

I still like the manliness of a heavy maul.

€ 193?! That’s a pricey axe, even by STW standards.

One of these looks easy enough to build (well, a bench version anyway)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXzaGFkWfU[/video]

I could watch that all day

I’m dizzy.

Almost no visible grain in that wood, like to see how he’d get on with some hedgerow Oak or Hornbeam.

Useful, if you can access that type of timber- whadya reckon straight grained Birch maybe?

Can’t watch the video – neighbours in so Internet hamster exhausted – but what a shallow article! And I don’t see the issue with chopping wood. One of the best jobs of all, in my book.