In honour of our new wood burning stove, I’ve just gone out and bought myself a new Gransfors Bruks axe to replace the old one i got from my dad years back. Frighteningly expensive, but the quality of workmanship is evident when you compare it to my £30 Bahco splitting maul.

Now there’s a manly post.
You won’t see that on mums net!

maybe more axe wounds on mumsnet instead?

IGMC

I feel pathetically mainstream now after buying a £10 one from Homebase the other week…

should have bought a proper billhook, with the original handle, axes are for gaylords!

I bought my 3ft maul off ebay for 8 quid. Got to say, it does an excellent job

Got a billhook from the same place too, only 15 quid. Don’t use it much though, it’s too light and I feel like I might lose a hand!

Seeing as we’re putting plenty of wood through our stove now (best thing I’ve bought in a long time!) I quite fancy one of these Granfors splitting mauls but cannot see why they’re so expensive/what the difference would be!

Dick, where real men get their choppers.

Is that an instruction book hanging off it? 😯

Grass is patchy too.

Chuck Norris would stare at the logs and they’d split themselves. You paupers!
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I want a stove too!

nice 😉

Have a one handed splitting axe and a small woodmans axe from them – quality is second to none – it is a handmade work of art vs mass produced.

Simple and effective

My niche axes look this:

And they’re carbon fibre, so ner 😉

This is a niche log splitting axe
http://www.chopperaxe.com/whatis.htm

I don’t have an axe any more……

During my divorce, the wifes father reported me to the police for having an axe in the house (apparently it was an offensive weapon).

This would be the axe he advised me to buy for our wood burning stove.

So now axes are a symbol of failed marriages and insane Welsh inlaws (and a slight desire to have chopped a few heads off while I had the chance…..).

My favourite was always the z, seemed to have more depth than the others

Is that an instruction book hanging off it?

That is your ‘Axe Book’ – comes with every Gransfors Bruks and tells you, amongst other things, the name of the craftsman who forged your axehead and gives you a bit of history about the company and so on.

Next time you see an episode of one of his shows containing an axe, just see how sharp the friggin thing is. He just waves it at the wood and the fibres magically part with a gentle swoosh.

which axe for the lumberjack ball?

Would a long shaft be just showing off?