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As a left-handed person: great, another lethal tool optimised for right-handed people and therefore more unwieldy and dangerous for us.
As a left-handed person: great, another lethal tool optimised for right-handed people and therefore more unwieldy and dangerous for us.
As a left-handed person: great, another lethal tool optimised for right-handed people and therefore more unwieldy and dangerous for us.
No, they address that in their FAQ. They found no difference in use for right or left-handed people. Hooray from a fellow leftie!
As a left-handed person: great, another lethal tool optimised for right-handed people and therefore more unwieldy and dangerous for us.
Can you elaborate on this? Having split a lot of wood it's not clear this design is affected by handedness.
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It amazes me when someone makes improvements to a job as old as splitting wood. Millions (billions?) of people have been doing it for thousands of years, and there's still room for improvement.
This is really a specialty tool. Normal axes were also used to fell trees, demolish wood structures, and occasionally personal defense. I'm guess that it's less useful if you're chopping against the grain or if you want precision.
And that's not a modern invention, it goes back for centuries. I'd guess that even stone age flint tools have been specialized in similar ways.
This axe looks really awesome, physics for the win. Also, instead of using an old rubber tire, I highly recommend building a variable length, tensioning chain, much like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrLiSMQGHvY Makes chopping wood so much more fun. And then, there is also the stikkan: http://www.stikkan.com/ Perfect to hang it up next to your fireplace to do some more fine grained wood chopping, cutting l…
I wonder if similar physical principles are at work in making their appearance similar.
http://theenergycollective.com/lindsay-wilson/307486/heating...
A heat pump with ground heat-sink may be a better long term option, but it's much more expensive. Also I'm pretty sure the gas is more efficient when considering the power plant and transmission line losses.
Even better would be a home gas co-generation plant. Honda has such a thing, but again not cheap:
http://world.honda.com/powerproducts-technology/cogeneration...
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It also easier to spit wood when it's cold out -10C to -20C it seems to crack better. I used to hate fall as a kid when wood splitting season began. Pneumatic splitters are great but slow. You learn to hate hard wood when splitting but it's great to burn. An old joke: I was 10 years-old before I learned my name wasn't "Get wood!"
I use a Fiskar X27[0] splitting axe and swinging that into a 12" round log of white birch or white spruce at -30C to -45C is like cutting through butter. [0] http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-and-Yard-Care/Products/Axe...