Mount the drill in a vice with trigger lock on

Please tell us if you locate an auger that actually works. I’m not purchasing one that is not centered and I have to modify. That’s a fail for me.

Is the amazon one you linked to made in China? I think I would prefer my small forest axe. Warms me up in winter and doesn’t cost me any electricity.

Wranglerstar do the race with jack to see what could split more kindling. And then I’d like to see on a wetter piece of wood.

Link didn’t work, but I will just go to your store. And God Bless you Cody and your family.

Love that idea. Thank u. I'm passing it on to my father who also recently has issues

I was going to say, this is an excellent option for people with disabilities or injuries that make using an axe or hatchet dangerous or impossible, but personally I love splitting firewood swinging an axe or hatchet, so it's not an option I would use.

Never knew this, thanks!

I didn't either and use em' for a living. very interesting

Hopefully this isn't BS but I'm too lazy to search myself 😂

Brilliant

He pretty much proved your claim at 3:50...screwed the tool into a knot in reverse and couldn't back it out in forward...;)

Abroad as well as America. Very amusing =)

That's the kind of thing trolls do and then write 1-star product reviews on Amazon.

Northern Mainer here and I instantly facepalmed xD

@@codetech5598 Most of my 1-star reviews has to do with the sugar substitute used making my butthole turn into Niagara Falls.

@@TheNajSD Must be the gummy bears. lol

You mean the 500 lb. Pull one~?

😀

I've seen some very powerful explosive arrow heads. There are lots of creative folks 'out there'! 😉

my sentiments exactly

Because now you know you don't need to chop anything, just drive a big screw into it!

@@T4NGH3 lol

Bwaaaaaa!!

Having a fireplace is so cost effective compared to central air

@@krowwithakay maybe it's cost efficient compared to Central air but it's messy, time consuming and hard on your floors. After you've factored in everything I believe electric is the way to go. Although wood heat is much nicer.

That's what she said 🤠

No one cares lol. Women who are a beast with a hatchet aren't the ones getting offended.

Never swung an ax or maul all day

Buckin Billy Ray has good stick wedge swinging tips.

A great idea but what to call it....

@@exige265 maybe you could axe a couple people if the have any ideas.

now thats a concept..lol

One benefit this tool doesn't have, cutting and splitting wood with an axe is an exercise that produces more testosterone than any other. Must be a Primal movement that our bodies recognize. 🤓🍻

Farràkhan

@@alsaunders7805 Heavy weighted (IE with a barbell) deep squats are the medically proven exercise to increase the most testosterone in men just FYI.

Amusing observation! It confirms my vision of "what could be the harm in it?"😋

I was thinking as watching this “man you’re gonna warm the hell out of that drill!”

That was hilarious. Magic smoke. Lmao

Lol

You're supposed to leave the smoke in the drill

He made the vid to sell a little gadget - not truly to show a better way to chop wood. There's a reason why the axe has been a popular tool since the stone age.

Well he’s also saying how much easier it is then swinging a hatchet but yeah it all comes down to that Amazon money

Also if you’re in your living room and you need kindling i know I don’t wanna start smacking a hatchet around

That's what ZIG thought!!!!

@@12v lol!

@NonyaBusiness! to make kindling?

@NonyaBusiness! and for someone who is on a fixed income and can't afford to install a $20000 heating system?

@NonyaBusiness! I get your point and don't really think that this is an efficient way to make kindling for most people, but this is just one of those little things that might help people keep their independence as long as they possibly can in life. Also you should look up the video of a guy who put one on his car to split large pieces of wood 😂

Grand kids

I like the concept, but this video convinced me that an axe is way more efficient. A hatchet for kindling. I'm not as tough as I used to be, but I have no problem swinging an axe. Yet.

That thing may not cut you, but it would snap an old wrist in a heartbeat.

Not so sure about that. I am pretty strong fella, and I almost broke my wrist... When it catches, it catches.....

Ditto

Just use the right small axe.

Hatchets are far more versatile

While I would imagine if I used one of those I would prefer an axe but for example my pregnant wife has to build fires when I'm not around and she has cut maybe 10 pieces of fire wood in her life so I think it has a place for her. So i know that shes not cutting off fingers lol

Yea 3X as fast. Need a small handled splitting maul and a hatchet.

That’s extremely interesting. I’d love to see one working

Bad for your engine too

Ya, I will stick with my little fiskars hatchet. It is a cool idea. Might be good for people that r not good with a 🪓.

@@chevy4x466 a hatchet or a cheap machete and a hammer , both work good And don't put a lot of wear on your drill

In what way does a machete work good to chop wood?

@@skippayless4357 by batoning the piece vertically

Hey you can't sell auger bits if you don't appear to like them. If you don't call them simple, you'll sell even less.

I'll tell you what I learned you don't grind the back of the bit that's going in your drill or it'll spin crooked and that I don't like nothing worse than trying to drill something crooked

TRIGGERED

I've done a bit of fiskin in my time. I like to get elbow deep, really scratch those itches.

Easy over quick

I feel you could develop a good pace over time but what is that going to cost in drills? Also, it didn't look super safe. At least not safe enough for some members of my family to use.

Work smarter, not harder my friend

With way less work

@@tomsoki5738 it's not safer but there are a hundred years of rules and safe practice when it comes to using axes, things that I can teach. To use this drill technique one would have to develop some new safe practices. I fear fingers will be lost in that learning process.

I think this would be perfect for someone older or that for some reason or another doesn't have a lot of strength on them and want to be able to do it on their own

Yes, it does. It runs on bacon.

Bill The Tractor Man No but you do.

Bill The Tractor Man The battery died on my hatchet and axe when I turned 63. :(

My first thought exactly. Also, edited this comment to say this. Splitting firewood versus splitting kindling are much different levels of exertion.

Old Farmall Cubs ran a large cone off the rear PTO to split wood.

Used one,for several years..Kind of Dangerous,if you were not paying attention..We had a kill switch for the vehicle engine,Mounted on the rear fender by magnet,if trouble occurred..Got a few smashed fingers and splinters,if you didnt have the wood,anchored well..

They’re dangerous as all hell. That’s why you hardly ever see them.

I just saw this video and had the same thought. Liability suits probably started a day or two after they started shipping!

I wonder if the reverse thread is so it can be put in the chuck of an electric or fuel-powered Augur device without having to fabricoble the output direction. I don't really know, cause I don't deal with motors enough to know the default spinning direction. I am just spitballing here.

Like the caveman figures out the wheel Ohhhh ohhhhh ohhhhh oooooo ooooo!!!!!!!

U could start fire like that ogga ogga style

Well you do need upper body strength and decent aim to use a splitting maul.

Well you are here

@@DannyRice01 ... As well as you. Pleasure to meet you. 😁👍

Siri and Alexa and your cell phone are listening.

A few months ago I was at work on not my own or not a friends computer. I brought up KZfaq but didn't log into my account. All my subscriptions came up. My phone was obviously telling KZfaq I was there. Very telling. Big tech the government, and telecom all in bed together.

@@JazenValencia true that, it's not a myth any more the future is upon us

Jazen, I don't understand. You were on someone's computer, what does that have to do with your cell phone?

@@dangrimes5078 I opened up KZfaq but didn't sign in. I got all my usual channels on this computer I've never been on before. My phone told youtube where I was and it reacted accordingly. Google spys on people. This is not a secret it's just dumb of them to be so out in the open.

Slow, non explosive movement that requires little effort. If you want speed, swing a damn axe. Many older people would rather let a tool do the work than risk injury.

@@juliansanderson839 I can think of several faster, easier, non - explosive ways to cut wood vs. this method. Don't be so sensitive, Jill.

@@bigwon5883 how much easier could it possibly get? You literally just press a button with this method. I’m not being sensitive, your comment just makes you seem extremely close minded and intentionally ignorant.

@@juliansanderson839 ok Jillian, take your meds.

@@bigwon5883 oh you sure showed me what’s what. I am truly devastated by your playground insult. Maybe come up with a real counter argument next time, ok bud?

That was money, wasn’t it? SNOWFLAKE ALERT! “So who would find this useful? Well, women.... OH, NOOOOO!!!”

As soon as he said that, this channel became my favorite channel on KZfaq!

That's just biology. Take a large enough sample size and you'll start seeing a conclusive trend. Generally speaking women are physically weaker than men. That's an undeniable fact.

@@Diabolos1 That is true, generally. But its the human condition to have exceptions to every rule. There are some really strong females who could split wood better then most men. Its perfectly fine to generalize, and people who get offended by it are, as Glen said, Snowflakes. Just make sure you are in fact generalizing, because if someone just flat out says every woman is weaker than every man, that paints that person as sexist, and ignorant.

Be offended....get 100 guys and 100 girls lined up and see who can chop and split the most wood in an hour and men WILL win by a mile. Thats nature....if you're offended by nature, thats your problem LOL

Wood DustJLR A hammer drill would not do much in this situation.

Or a hammer drill with a really wide chisel bit, the sort of thing you might use to break up an old tile floor. I wonder how that would work with some of this really dry firewood Cody has.

I would agree that it would be interesting to find out and I don't think that they understand that ryobi makes a small handheld ratched hammer drill for the set that same drill usually comes in. Not a handheld jackhammer but a reciprocating drill for metal screws.

My dad has a huge contractor level drill with a hammer chisel tip and it works great

Well, a hammer drill applies impact force along the axis of the auger. You would be fighting the auger. Kind of like using a hammer on a screw. An impact driver, however, applies a rotational impact force which would work with the screw action of the auger. If you could figure out how to attach it to a half-inch battery impact, it would take a lot to stop it.

@Timothy Mckee My wife and daughters love Umeshu, it's a bit too sweet for my taste, give me Crown Royal any day! Cheers!

@Timothy Mckee Hibiki 17 is my favorite Japanese whiskey, but it's as rare as hen's teeth at the moment!

@Timothy Mckee I'll admit I have not checked miss sweet pea in along time,😘 she still cute and has a ....aww I ain't fooling nobody keep any blade AWAY FROM HER!!!!....😎😝😂😂😂🍔🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

A lot of stuff is haha

Yes they wouldn’t have a clue if they were confronted with a decent piece of ironbark or red box

True. I built a hydraulic splitter with a huge I-beam and a hydraulic ram off an excavator, driven by a two stage pump. Worked for a while, then on a particularly nasty bit of Box, the I-Beam twisted up like a pretzel before the foot sheared off. I've never seen metal rip like that.

Hi Mal, I’ve always wondered if you could use an excavator ram like that. Did the pump come off the excavator? What motor did you use to drive the pump.?

@@jackavalon8366 Any double acting hydraulic ram will work. The bigger the better. The pump was a 11 gpm 2 stage pump from Northern Tool USA. Driven with a Honda 160 4-stroke clone, with a lovejoy coupling connecting the motor output to the pump shaft.

Ostap1974 are you implying that you don’t swing an axe inside by the fire place?

Its called a hatchet. Yknow the tool thats been around for thousands of years(in a stone form then iron). If you need kindling use that.

Or a froe would also work well, if you decided to get one. They use them to split shakes and shingles, they would be fantastic for kindling

Better yet...Weed Burner on a 20 lb propane bottle. I official named it Smaug the Dragon. Barrel Stove, full size firewood; Poof Instant Fire.

Kindling is much cheaper and more environmentally friendly

@@oscarrodwell3293 overall better .

Rivera Who’s needs Benzomatic OR Gasoline when you have liquid Oxygen, Acetolene and solid rocket fuel!

@@Machria23 who needs acetylene when youve got thermite?

this has reminded me and i think i need to make a PSA: be warned, it burns just as well when it's used as bedding.

@@angrydragonslayer Agreed. Don't use for ground cover in your smoking area...

@@brianvandy4002 we found this out when lightning hit my sisters hamster house

@@angrydragonslayer :o

Don't let it twist up your hand

captainnemo don’t hurt your “strong hand” (scary movie)

@@rickt151 i live in civilisation...i dont need to chop wood

@@capatainnemo Did you lose your hand chopping kindling with hatchet.

Sorry to hear about your hand!

You clearly have never been to the east coast.

Poisonapplefarm I bet you lots of east coasters buy there wood from the gas station

@@trevorholland7 yeah no doubt there are some dumbasses who buy 5$ bags of pine at gas stations, but be sure that everyone in the countryside gets their own from the woods

LOL...the west coast has la, seattle, portland and san francisco...I wouldn't be bragging if I was you

Couldn't have said it better😂😂😂

I thought the same thing...lol

Lol..

You wouldn't survive 3 days without electricity.

People always act like this. There are bad ways to do stuff and good ways. Traditional just means "it's been done this way for awhile" or "In the beginning of doing something it was done this way" and people tend to cling to tradition because they grew up with it or prefer it personally. The problem comes in when they begin to become blinded by personal preference seeing the traditional way at the only way since they like it or think it's the best without logic. If you find a good way to do something it's fine to do especially if there are benefits to it. We aren't sure yet if it's more efficient but IF it's more efficient to use the wood augur drill there's no logic in arguing for a hatchet when it comes to speed and ease. Someone can say oh it's better in an outdoors-man scenario or such but that's not the discussion. Michael France response is stupid and irrelevant to the discussion but that's what people do online, talk nonsense.

Michael France stfu

Good point Hayden. A child too small to swing an axe that needs to start a fire to survive can just pop down to the hardware store to buy a drill and they'll be saved!

Scott Powell that would have been perfect

Didn't mention the SJWs and Snowflakes.

The southeast will stick with the old maul and axe 😏 it’s too slow

Exactly

18v dewalt has a 1/2 inch chuck

I was looking to see if someone said this already lmao. Everyone makes mistakes. Haha

bcar not this one

I mean he obviously knows this and modified his shaft you can tell he shaved it down. And could care less. But thanks captain hindsight

Why is that

@@david667766 it takes more torque to remove screws bolts and such than it does to apply them

You can literally get 3X --> 10X as many pieces of kindling using an axe over this thing in same period of time.

I have one of those myself. Its also very good at keeping the dentist in business. I found out the hard way drilling overhead with a large auger bit. It felt like i was hit with a ball bat when that drill handle spun around and smacked up beside my head.

Except they are not backwards , he had to have started with his drill in reverse Watch any of the video. , the drill is turning forward ( clockwise looking from the rear )

I wasnt expecting that 🤣

Had to like when he said that.

when he say that? did I just miss it

@@andrewbean3361 7:05

@@Timotheousturalyon same

That comment got a like right away

GO HAWKS! I'm a 4'11" widow with a wood stove and no elec heat and don't live too far from you. However I now have a 6'2" boyfriend who insists I'm a dainty little dew drop that despite nearly 40yrs of chopping fire wood... warms you twice, as mom used to say... it's now considered far too dangerous for me. Still... I WANT that wood auger! After all, you never know... with his bad back and all.... I may be back in the wood shed, chopping wood again, lol!

It's a real option for someone with an injury, a child you don't trust to swing an axe, or someone who's just at a point they can't swing one anymore.

Hey man we're not all stupid like this guy. I will stick to my hatchet.