Wood Kindling Splitter - High Strength Structural Steel Firewood Splitter, Wood Splitter Wedge, for Small Wood Stove and Fireplace Manual Log Splitter, Black

As a 5 foot tall, 94 pound, almost 60 year old woman, I have a really hard time splitting wood with an ax or maul. I just don’t have the height or upper body strength. I had a stack wood rounds (elm, piñon, cedar) that had been seasoning for about a year and a half and needed splitting. This thing worked great! I slammed the rounds down onto the splitter to hold them in place and then hit the wood with a sledgehammer. Don’t get me wrong. It was a lot of work, but it split the wood well. I used 4 inch wood screws and washers to fasten it to a large wooden block.

Works as promised. If you have ever used a splitter that has the ring and gotten a log stuck in the splitter you will appreciate this design. No more stuck logs and it splits easily.

Splitting logs for my smoker

Works well on wood up to about 6" in diameter. Not so well on anything bigger

This splits wood really efficiently and easily. You need a good solid hammer but it is really easy to split large piece of wood along the grain. Most of the wood delivered was bigger than I want to burn in the house. This fixed that.

I am seeing complaints about the splitter coming unsharpened, which would be an annoying chore to do yourself - IF THE METAL WAS HARD. I could sharpen this thing in five minutes because the metal is so g**damn soft. The jagged gaps you are seeing in the picture are from where I hit it with a pair of pliers with the same amount of force you'd use to shake water off of them- but get this - it didn't chip off, those are not chips you're seeing. What you are seeing is actually COMPRESSION OF THE METAL. This is utter garbage, and I'm getting my money back. Can't get my time back though. Are you effing kidding me with this?EDIT: Looking closer at the exposed metal. IT'S ALUMINUM. ALUMINUM. This company manufactured a forestry product that is intended to split all types of wood out of ALUMINUM. I just can't get over this. It's becoming emblematic of a society in decline, and I'm contemplating keeping it on my desk to remind me of the era we now find ourselves in.

We burn wood all winter to heat our house, and this small wood splitter is easy to use. I don't have to count on my husband to chop up kindling for me now.

Mount this to something solid (heavy round on concrete, for example), and you will be very pleased with its performance. Works better than I expected. Virtually indestructible construction unlike cast iron options which will likely crack at some point.I'm driving it a 4 lb hammer and find it just fine. I think those people that struggle to split dry wood with it probably don't have it mounted firmly to a solid base. If the ground is soft under your base then your impact energy will be lost from each strike.Really an exceptional value. I don't think I could have done any better for double the cost. I cut a deep slot in a split log to use as a safety cover on top of this when not in use. Takes about one minute to do plunging your saw and prevents a serious accident (think about kids playing near this...).Wish it was made in the Usa, but otherwise really good. Steel seems hard enough to last and comes very sharp.