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The Fiskars IsoCore maul is the most purchased splitting maul in America by a wide margin. You can find it at every Home Depot, Lowe's, and hardware store in the country. It is consistently reviewed well. It has genuine engineering behind it and it works. If you own one and like it, you are not wrong. We carry the Council Tool Ol' No. 7 at Whiskey River and not the Fiskars. Here is the honest breakdown of what each tool does, where each one has the edge, and why we made the choice we did. What Fiskars Gets Right The...

If you have re-handled an axe before, most of what you know applies here. The process is the same job. But mauls have a few specific characteristics worth understanding before you start. The eye is larger. A splitting maul head has a bigger eye than a standard axe head. That larger eye accommodates a heavier handle that can withstand the forces involved in splitting wood, which are different from chopping forces. When you split, you are driving mass into wood along the grain and the energy return when you miss or glance is significant. The handle needs to be up...

Every fall, somebody figures out they need to split a serious pile of wood and starts asking around. Splitting axe or splitting maul? Which one should I get? Forum guys argue about it like it's a religious debate. YouTube guys make fourteen-minute videos that eventually land on "it depends." Here is the honest answer: if you are heating your home with wood and you are doing it right, you own both. They are not the same tool. They do not do the same job. Picking one and white-knuckling it through every round in the pile is like deciding you only...

If you search "best axe for splitting wood" right now you'll get a page full of roundups that all recommend the same three products with Amazon affiliate links attached to every one of them. The writers have usually never split a cord of firewood in their lives and the recommendations reflect that. This is a different kind of article. We sell splitting axes. We've used splitting axes. We have opinions about what makes one worth buying and what makes one a waste of your money. Here's the honest version. First, a Terminology Problem Worth Clearing Up A lot of guys...