I use the 4 pound Twisted Cone Wedge, and i dearly love it by Lowes

Every thing you showed > i just use a maul on. These big round Red Oak is what i used the Twisted Cone Wedge on

Great review Mark! I love my Halder soft blow hammers, the fit and finish of their tools is unmatched... Great combination you have there! 😃👍

I love using wedges on big rounds to make them easier to handle you might think it's slower than a splitting mall it might be if you only have a few rounds to split but you don't use near as much energy with wedges so I can work a lot longer and get more done before I tire out and start hurting too bad so I definitely will get me one of this to try it out

hands farther apart has more control and is the way to get s wedge to start and bite in, but once in (and as you grow in confidence) go for the axe swing style (but in this case overhead swing of course) where your hands start farther apart but then slide together as you make impact, this will give you maximum striking power! you'll get some overstrikes when you just start doing it (and maybe towards the end of the day when you're shot!) but this tool has metal collar overstrike protection up there so I say go for it! Aluminum wedges seem to dent and absorb more power, putting that into the splitting action, and steel wedges dent less, causing more bounce and robbing you of some of your power. That's why I favor the german aluminum splitting wedges. But maybe the plastic end of this prevents bounce as well, it'd be interesting to compare if I had that maul. Unfortunately I've already bought 3 mauls and may be picking up the new fiskars maul as well to do a maul shootout video. I always am tempted to buy more tools but the cost really adds up and what will I do with all these similar weight/use tools at the end? They're so heavy to ship and sell on ebay and hard to box. I doubt craigslist cheapos will appreciate the value of my fine splitting tools. Maybe christmas gifts to out of shape relatives? ;)

Brilliant Matk. That’s going to be my solution. I tried with a heavy duty jackhammer SDS drill, but I had to rescue 3 chisels using my axe 😂

Mark - thanks for the review and demonstrating. It certainly splits wood well that is otherwise very challenging. I have a bunch of large knotty birch rounds up to 2ft. in diameter, so it looks like its time to invest in a wedge and a hammer. Still undecided on aluminum or steel which obviously affects the hammer material choice. In either case the twist seems to bring a major advantage.

Just prior to watching this video I viewed another where the person could NOT get the wedge to go into his wood. He even sharpened the wedge, without any change. He then used just a generic metal wedge and it went in every time easily. He concluded his video saying: maybe you need to use the Halder’s maul with the wedge. I feel that would be craze and it should have worked with a metal sledge as long as the owner was not concerned with deforming the top. Have you heard anything to confirm or deny? Thanks

good review and video man, so many experts in the comments hahaha

This is a very good example of firewood heating you twice!! How do you get anything accomplished?!?!

Oh it's orange! Should work real nice😉

Oh what a Thor with se Hammer !!!! Her Technic is so great like my englisch. There is doing my Eyes pains.😭

My Fiskar's maul would make short work of all that wood easily. Try splitting knarly knotted twisted grain Red Gum and you'll know what tough wood really feels like ;)

that's a small log. Just hit it with the maul. Hard.

What tools do you prefer for splitting firewood? A maul, wedge, or both?

should come with a plastic cover for the top of the wedge instead of the maul.. really seems like the company is double dipping trying to get people to buy both products when it's really unnecessary.

i have an old splitting wedge that has really been work hardened and is cracking and despite my attempts to prevent mushrooming it still does and beat on that wedge mercilessly. this guy may be able to split firewood, the wedge is for big rounds not little rounds.

A lot has todo with the man doing the swinging I got sum oak that I can’t drive any wedge into

Completely clueless city-boy here, but...well, isn’t a wedge just a maul without a handle? I mean, sure, I’ve watched small teams of Canadian ogres using wedges to help bring down full size trees they’ve already attacked with what look like 25’ long chainsaws. But that’s an entirely different class of work than this, surely? I mean, I can just hear them, Crocodile Dundee-like, _“Log? That’s norra log. This is a log. Eh?”_ I guess what I’m asking is simply, why doesn’t he just wallop his little logs with a regular maul or splitting axe? Even with it’s funky twistiness, it doesn’t seem the wedge is buying him much other than one more thing to carry/forget/lose, no? (Again, I have *no* idea about this stuff. It’s quite likely I wouldn’t even be able to lift the wedge, never mind the thing he’s belting it with.)

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Find a Chopper 1! Why? One whack on logs those size and that's it!

Why do people insist on splitting the center of the log?

I would love to get one of these but I do not like that I would need a special sledge to use it. They just lost a sale with me for that reason. I like to go to the woods with the least amount of tools I know will get the job done, That's 2 extra tools, I pass.

a plastic hammer, the world has gone nuts !!!

Halder should offer a maul with the same design and then only 1 tool would be required.

9:25, wedges are softer steel and are expendable, they are also very safe to use, this dude doesn’t know how to properly split firewood either.

That's why I use a Hydraulic splitter......lol Don't need to work so hard.

66 dollars is a bit steep

Sledgehammer works better with a wedge

Little wood

God you talk alot!

$70 for a wedge that costs them $5 to make? No thanks. The axe is a stupid design also. You spend all that money and the hammer part warps. On top of that it needs to be replaced from time to time which I'm sure is also a rip off. This my friend is what I call a rip off company, I would never give them my business. I'm not that stupid.