/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2796877
it sounds like a lot more work, physically moving the heavy part every inch it needs to move. Pic related is the best tool, >>2796860 is a pampered girly man chopping cute little logs into cute little sticks, those hinged bits don't do anything good to wet wood, and any energy spent pulling a stuck axe head out of a log is wasted energy. Also they can make the axe head do unpredictable things in the vicinity of your legs and ankles.

With a normal splitting maul gravity is doing most of the work, you help it a little on the backswing and then help it drop into the work, let the head rest on the splitting block while you stack another round to be split, then let the head swing off the block and help it back into the backswing. Viewed from the side, the axe head is making an oval, not a parentheses.