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Fiskars Maul vs. Council Tool Ol' No. 7: Which One Should You Buy?
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...
Splitting Axe or Splitting Maul? Yes.
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...
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