Splitting Axe Recommendations ?

I am curios what everyone uses for a larger splitting axe?
I’m looking to get a axe to process a significant amount of firewood. This is not a axe that I would be packing around it would be a at home use only.

The only axes I have ever owned have been smaller around the campfire sized so I’m not sure where even to begin.

I would be using in on mostly freshly cut softwood trees.

Thanks!

 

Hard to beat a Fiskars X27 Super Splitter. Not pretty, not fancy, but it works. I have a “few” axes. I spent a couple hours yesterday splitting wood with my father-in-law’s maul, wishing the whole time I had my X27 with me. Lifetime warranty. Buy a pretty Gränsfors Splitting Maul for show and a Fiskars for when it’s time to work.

 

I have a Fiskars with the above head but shorter handle. It is a pure beast. I have it for more than 15 years and have split more than 300 cubic meters of hard, knotty and dry beech. Extremely strong, I don't think it can fail, to be honest, after everything it has been through. The handle has taken some brutal hits and just has a few scratches.

I think they have shorter and longer handle of the same model, to better suit persons with different height. I am 173 cm and the shorter one fits me perfectly.

 

I also have one of those fiskars, I don't care for the plastic handle, but it works well.

 

I’ll concur with everything said.

 

I will have to Def look into these. I have a small 16ish long version of the Fiskars but I was worried about the added handle length.
I am curios if wrapping the handle and adding a Handle guard would really make this work

 

It needs a wooden core for shock absorbtion.

 

Used to use a wood handled splitting maul.

But the hydraulic powered splitter works dang good these days.

 

No need for wrapping or adding a guard, it is plenty strong for years of use.

 

I’m a fan of Wilton. I burn wood all winter long and the Wilton seems to overall have the best performance. I split small kindling with what ever axe is laying around.