After filming this video I have actually kept using this monstrosity :D It's really faster on my type of work, not three times faster than regular axe but maybe twice as fast? Only drawback is the fact that it's four times heavier than regular axe so you get tired quite fast swinging this around. And by the way I have couple more videos already filmed and lot of great ideas so more videos coming again after some time off!

Lauri: This big old Fiskars is little overkill. Also Lauri: Weld 4 axes(as big as Fiskars) together. 🙂

The biggest improvement I have seen for cutting lots of firewood is putting the wood inside a large tyre. With it inside there when you split it the wood doesn't go flying in every direction so you can just load up the tyre with lots of logs and just keep swinging until it's all cut the way you want it.

You can improve the split rate by grinding the blades back so that you have a point where the four blades meet and the new sharpened edges angle up at about 30 degrees. Just be sure to re-harden the edges if they get hot during grinding.

Genius. The axe looks like an over-the-top weapon one might find in a video game.

Lauri, your mad scientist build videos are my favorite!

you probably know already but to me it was a total revelation when i heard about the trick of putting a car tire around the log. Now I split the wood twice as fast.

Now make a four chain chainsaw!

How hard did Timo laugh when you told him you were going to make this?

Cool to see a new BTP from you Lauri, welcome back

I think you just need to raise your base to knee height and split logs above knee height and you’ll get more even contact on the blade and have less bending for your back

Good last axe sounded a bit more final than you probably intended :D

Excellent idea and great video! 👍 When axe stuck, just lift it with firewood, without trying to remove axe and hit it again, but this time firewood hits base and axe goes deeper, splitting wood.. When it's deeply stuck, lift it with firewood as previously and hit opposite way with firewood up and axe down.. 😉

Fresh wood and Finnish winter is coming - someone is getting ready for sauna time. Welcome back, Lauri -looking forward to more fun.

Love the build! One suggestion, you will wear yourself out less and be more efficient if you change your technique. One hand at the bottom of the handle, one hand at the head of the axe. Swing the axe sort of around you sideways almost so that you don't waste energy and effort swinging it up and over your head. As you get the momentum going, once it's vertically over your head or abouts, then slide your hand that is at the axe head down to the other hand at the end as you swing the whole thing around. You get your whole body into the motion. Watching you start with it down your back and both hands in the same place makes me wince for your back!

Hi great stuff, but missing Anni she has fantastic input to your uploads. Many thanks. From near Liverpool UK.

You need to change the shape slightly! The blades that go to the sides should hit slightly later than the straight blade(s) and I think you might need to angle them slightly. Have a look at a hoe, the blade of the classic hoe is also slightly angled.

Those centered shots in slow mo are super satisfying

You sir are insane making such a tool. I fn LOVE IT!!!

This was such a refreshing video to see. A lovely silent forest view and a man enjoying a cool axe. Somehow gives me peace of mind.

Lauri you are phenomenally confident in your welding. I don't know if I'd be so cavalier singing around an axe with a head only held to the haft by my own welds.

Great Idea! Kick Ass Music during fabrication!

Amazing that it actually works even!

put the axe head on a hydraulic press and place the logs in a wedge and you have a log splitting machine. AVE did something similar with just a normal splitter wedge. great video and cool idea

Great head for a long splitter for sure!! Nice video brother

It's nice to see you doing videos again good job on the ax that's pretty cool😂😉

Man, how beautiful place is there in autumn! You could show more footage for us! 🍁🍂

Such a pleasurable tool. I must make one.

"do you want a battle axe or a warhammer?" "yes"

Yay! It's been ages since you put a video up here!

I don't know how I missed this video when it was released, but this is great. Even if it isn't the perfect tool, at least you look awesome while using it!

7:15 so satisfying. I will now make my own quad axe for my fire wood this Winter. Your vid is entertaining AND informative 👉🙂👉

Now you only need to build pneumatic quad-axe swinger 5 000 000 and get through every log first try 😅

Finnish Mythbusters is just what I need in my life. Thank you!

"Even the sun came out for that", that was so satisfying :D

just yesterday i was thinking, “haven’t seen a post from beyond the press in a while” Cheers!!

Surprisingly effective!

Super Awesome 👍👍

😂😂😂 You’re a mad genius! Love it! 😂😂😂

This is really cool. Make an upgrade by using a longer handle and to shift the horizontal edges a couple of centimetets higher such that they don't impact all at the same time. Would be interesting to see how that improves splitting the same blocks you tried now.

Love the red neck design ;)

I like the music...and the video wasn't bad either.

9:20 instead of resetting by pulling out, you can try the reverse swing (since the log is usually heavier than the axe head, it carries more momentum). Swing the axe+log down into the block with the axe back hitting the block first. The momentum of the log will carry it through the blade.

When I get logs that doesn't split all the way through, but have good start. I lift the log with the axe still stuck and drop it on the axe. Most time the logs momentum finnish the job. I used to use this as preferred method and use a small one hand axe.

Wow this is sick, would love to see a revisit to this tool sometime with suggestions for improvements from the comments taken into account

Nice Axeperiment. You're a real Axepert

So happy to be viewing you again, made my day a happy day 😁😎😎

You may be able to reduce twisting by flattening the handle into an oval that is lined up with the direction of swing. That way you can feel where the edge is as you handle the tool.

It made me happy when you were so happy on that second good cut. Great job!

Pretty good!

Very nice

Great! I mean, I have seen the idea in some technical magazines back in 1980s first and surely it have being around before. Probably there are some reasons this kind of axe did not get popular. But whatever keeps your sauna hot, I guess. Two notes on the work: a) when the axe got stuck in the log, one can swing it backwards, so the head of an axe lands first and the log you are splitting gets on top. That works the better the heavier the log is. b) your swing technique can be improved. If you start the swing in front of you, then go down by your side, behind the back, and then go overhead and down, you are saving yourself much work in that initial pulling the axe from behind your back. And add pretty much energy to the swing. Though I have never tried that with a four bladed axe, with regular Fiskars it works like a charm (it has flat handle, which makes correct alignment easier, BTW). And with a sledgehammer it is a standard technique.

Natural gas prices just doubled here in Canada and set to double again throughout winter, looking into a wood stove, and an axe like this would make a nice asset to go with it. :D

Nice video. Do you think it would work if you used four smaller axe heads? Concentrate the force into a smaller area so somthing.

I'm glad I subbed a long time ago. 😎👍🏻

It's Lauri the big muscled inventor! 😀

Suggestion construct one where the second set of blades is smaller and staggered behind the fist set. The first set will split the log partially reducing the tension on the two halves and then the secondary set will catch the two halves at higher speed

Nice one

Winter is over in Australia and Summer coming so I need lots of beer!

I grew up using a splitting maul. It's basically a sledge hammer with a sharp end; would be interesting to see 4 of them welded together.

Que ingeniosos!!!

Pretty cool. What if it had 3 heads? Maybe it would be more likely to make the split every time.

My butt puckered because of that asmr of the perfect split.

Great video. You know, with some proper product development, that could really be a product. I'm betting someone sees this and starts to make these.

I think that the horizontal blade holds the wood together when the vertical blade tries to split and Vice versa. So if you put the vertical blades longer and the horizontal shorter or vice versa then it would cut through like the single fisker axe. I could be completely wrong 😂

Other than throwing the two rear pieces at me, this is an awesome idea I'm surprised nobody has tried to sell

I am interested in how well this will stand the test of time , perhaps you could make an update in a year or two to let us know if there was any problems later on?

Now I wanna see Log Splitter 5,000,000, a cannon that shoots logs at a stationary blade. Or maybe a canon that shoots the Quad Axe 5,000,000 at the logs. No, actually two cannons aimed at each other, one that shoots logs and one that shoots axes .

Would it be possible to combine this idea with the 'Chopper1' splitting maul? Add four levers to the blades to force the wood appart and decrease friction?

Cool invention! Here in Sweden we cut down the trees in the winter, when the sap content is the lowest. Then we chop the wood in the spring, so it has plenty of time to dry up before the next winter when it will heat our homes. I prefer a cleaving axe, which is a special kind of axe with a very steep angle that breaks the wood apart more aggressively. With a large cleaving axe you can barely split a normal size piece in one hit. Your invention will make it even harder, and not save any time for that. And the most time consuming part of chopping wood is the large pieces that require a steel wedge. Many people use electrical log splitters here, but splitting with axe is actually faster (if you are good at it), and also gives a good workout.

Looks like a sledge would go great on the back side

Looks like something a dwarf warrior would have in a video game 🙂

kiitos Lauri :)

A BTP building/welding video with metal music, I had no Idea how much I missed that. :')

Nice video. I think it would goes easier if it was more pointy to have less surface contact when you hit. And also you should flatten the handle side to make it easier for indexing the blade of the axe, seeing how round the handle is it must be hard to control.

During that montage of building, i think its the one time everyone unilaterally agrees that metal music fits best hehe.

Hydraulic log splitters are the way to go man. Super easy to build at home too.

4 ax heads turned into 1. I love it lol

I would buy one just cause it looks cool

For some reason all I can think of is Moe from the Simpsons: “And that's how, with a few minor adjustments you can turn a regular gun into five guns.” 😆

I think a slightly higher stump than you were using for the normal axe might be better, so you hit more square with all four blades.

Axellent!

That is AWESOME!!!! I've always wondered why they don't make a tool like that, because they do make a 4 way wedge.

haha great idea :)

Nice axe

Looks like a 4 way splitting wedge mounted on a maul handle. I've seen hydraulic splitters with them, and 6 sided blades as well for the bigger industrial splitters. Though the splitting wedges are more swept back and spike like in the middle. Maybe just drop it in, then hit it withdrawn a sledge?

If you start the swing with your hands at opposite ends of the handle, and slide the hand nearest to the head towards the other on the downswing, so that hands are together when the axe head hits, you will transfer more power with less effort.

Sounds to me like you should put it on the end of a hydraulic piston and make a hydraulic log splitter. Or maybe put it on the pneumatic smasher

another of my crazy ideas: what about having a small profile set of split blades with a wedge that pushes the blades apart after they embed into the wood? The idea would be similar to a deadblow hammer.

You now need to build the axe swinger 5,000,000

The best idea i saw is put 5 to 10 logs together with a strap you use for load on your car. This way the logs dont fly everywhere and you can go lots faster.

Firstly, you are like a mad scientist! Secondly what welding wire did you use?

This is the real-life equivalent of Quake's quad damage.

I love this! I would lengthen the handle and adjust your splitting axe ergonomics. You're not getting any power in the downstroke out of starting the upstroke so far behind your back like that. A sliding grip started from nearly vertical allows you to assist gravity rather than fighting and brute-forcing your way through it.

This axe will be instant hit! you need to get wolrd wide patent for this great innovation!

Trick I learned was to place the wood into tires so the pieces don't fly away. Then walk around and chop to your desired sizes.

Winter is coming. We're all waiting for the Beyond the Press fire breathing dragons! Make it happen.

Definitely useful. Great video brother

you should make that as an attachment for one of those log splitters

I split wood all day today , I would have liked to have that tool lol I have a fiskars that’s a little bigger than the one you have and it works great but man you have to do a lot of work. Bending down and picking up the logs is hard on the back when you do it all day.