A Brilliantly Redesigned Ax That Makes Chopping Wood Less of a Chore

[ashling]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/30/vipukirves_by_heikki_k_rn_a_new_and_improved_ax_that_makes_chopping_wood.html



I posted the youtube of this the other day, but this has closeups of the ax ... and a cool story of its invention ....

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[Jenoch]

1. At $281 for this log splitter, I think I'll stick with the gas splitter we've had for 15 years.

[laundry_queen]

3. ouch! expensive!

I actually like the old fashioned way - it's great exercise and I'm pretty good at it. Of course, I'm not heating my house with wood or anything (it's purely for campfires at my parents' lake lot or the backyard fire pit). I'd probably get something nicer if I relied on wood for heat in the winter!

[Jenoch]

6. We have a northern Minnesota cabin and we can go through a lot of wood.

This is the best log cutting and splitting machine I have ever seen.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Northern IL here and we use a wood burning stove all winter

Its not our entire heating system but we have a fire going 24/7 for 6 months out of the year so we use a lot of wood too.

I checked into that maul when it first came out and agree with you that a motorized splitter is the way to go!

[TeamPooka]

2. Opportunity always exists in building a better mousetrap.

[edbermac]

4. Too bad that wasn't around in Lizzie Borden's time

Would have saved her a lot of effort.

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty one

[Kaleva]

5. The Vikings would have loved to have had this.

It really would have reduced the effort in chopping up people.

[ashling]

7. Since no one has seemed to fully appreciate the original post, let me repeat

you're welcome