What are the Specs; Council Tools new 7lb Splitting Maul

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@EmmettReese-nh9lg 2 ай бұрын

I love your videos! Im 14 and love restoring axes and carve the handles from a block of wood but there aways coming loose!

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 2 ай бұрын

Hey man, Glade your enjoying the videos. And good for you putting in the work to learn this craft. Just remember to go slow, be meticulous. And if it doesn't hang tight without a Wedge, then don't put the Wedge in, keep shaping till it fits tight.You'll get there. 👍

@EmmettReese-nh9lg 2 ай бұрын

@@old_iron_axe_and_tool thanks for replying it’s a skill I’m learning and hope to one day master!

@rcosg542yt 3 ай бұрын

Like your reviews. Glad you are making more videos again. Do some more axe hanging, axe building videos. They are money... never gets old to us axe guys.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

Will do. Summers are hard, between work and how hot my shop gets. It's finally slowing down now, I'll get some build stuff going soon. 👍

@AmericanOutdoorLiving 3 ай бұрын

A narrower striking face is useful for when you bury a splitting wedge in the round, the striking face will be narrow enough to drive the wedge deeper.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

Good point. That's getting into sketchy territory though. My nabour came over to borrow another Wedge after getting one stuck like that.

@axejunkies3761 2 ай бұрын

You are correct, that is one of the design elements and benefits.

@AnarchAngel1 Ай бұрын

That's a good point and something I didn't think about. That's an issue I've encountered using wedges in stringy, stubborn wood like Hickory or God forbid Elm 😅

@AmericanOutdoorLiving 9 күн бұрын

@@AnarchAngel1Currently most of our firewood is and has been elm, as that is what grows on our property, I often skip the maul and go straight to he sledge & wedge. Definitely not the easiest wood to split, the trees themselves are ugly too, part of why we cut them down.

@AnarchAngel1 9 күн бұрын

@AmericanOutdoorLiving I have quite a bit of American Elm on my property, I use it. I'm also lucky enough to have a lot of White and Red Oak, Shagbark Hickory, Mulberry (it's invasive and pretty good stove wood so I'm always cutting them down), Hackberry etc. Usually with Elm I don't even bother with hand tools like I would with Oak or something. I just take it right to the hydraulic splitter 😅 Only wood I do that with

@jakegorman7121 29 күн бұрын

A lot of the older tools had thin ax handles. It wasn't until relatively recently when they started putting big bulky blunt handles on everything. I have a couple of my grandfather's old axes and they are paper thin handles compared to anything you'll find in the store nowadays

@AmericanOutdoorLiving 3 ай бұрын

Already have a Council maul but now I need another one!

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

Ya, its hard to pass up. The last thing I needed was another maul, but it just looked to good.

@KillingerUSA 2 ай бұрын

Sigh... im goimg to have to pivk one of these up as well.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 2 ай бұрын

Ya, it's hard to pass up, sure looks good.

@scheelescorvid1597 2 ай бұрын

Please check out the FE8, I have the FE6 and that thing is amazing

@MrK98shooter 3 ай бұрын

What are your thoughts on CT? I looked into them for a decent pack axe in the 20-24” handle range but heard mixed reviews on a tool that should be quality out the door

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

CT is a fantastic company. They make good quality axes at a fare price. I don't have their pack axe, but have heard good things about it . One thing to keep in mind is that there's been fakes sold on Amazon and ebay. I'd only buy from a CT dealer. But for the price of an over hyped sweedish axe, you can buy a 24" pack axe and a few other CT axes.

@MrK98shooter 2 ай бұрын

@@old_iron_axe_and_tool thanks for the feedback i will look into them more

@sylvestersmith7651 3 ай бұрын

👍

@MountainMenAxes 3 ай бұрын

That bit looks kinda short though. I do like it.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

Ya. It's short, but thick. Won't bottom out, but sure tears up the sides. That's what she said! 🤣🫡

@groundpounder24365 3 ай бұрын

@old_iron_axe_and_tool you're such a stud 💪

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

@@groundpounder24365it comes naturally

@MountainMenAxes 3 ай бұрын

@@old_iron_axe_and_tool That is what she said!

@groundpounder24365 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video my friend, I love the attention to detail in the specs you always give 🫡

@MattKeevil 3 ай бұрын

Nice video. I'm not really in a position to buy one since I'm not in the states so it's a moot point, but my objection to this is that the maul side isn't hardened so I'm guessing it won't last long driving steel wedges (i.e., being a splitting maul).

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure all the mauls I've come across have a soft pole. It's by design, Hardened poles have a tendency to chip and crack instead of deform/mushroom. Chips can kill a man.

@MattKeevil 3 ай бұрын

@@old_iron_axe_and_tool That's why splitting wedges are not hardened. Steel wedges mushroom and the maul does not because the hammer face of a maul is hardened. Apparently they exist, but I've never seen a maul that wasn't hardened at the poll.

@old_iron_axe_and_tool 3 ай бұрын

@MattKeevil that makes sense. I'm going to do some file testing on maul poles to see how hard they are.

@axejunkies3761 2 ай бұрын

Council Tool does not harden the polls on the splitting mauls, so that if someone mistakenly strikes the poll with a hardened sledgehammer, then it won't be hard on hard which could cause injury. Council recommends maintaining the poll as needed, and to use a sledgehammer when driving splitting wedges.

@MattKeevil 2 ай бұрын

@@axejunkies3761 Thanks for following up. When I asked Craig Roost about this on FB he said the same. This is a change they made at some point because their old catalogs and archived versions of their website recommends their mauls for driving wedges (yes, I checked). That makes sense because a wood choppers maul or splitting maul has always (or at least for 130 years) been the name for a large hammer for driving splitting wedges. Early versions didn’t even have an axe blade. The blade was added to make it a double sided tool, like many other hammers such as a claw hammer with a nail puller, a brick hammer with a chisel, a peening hammer with a ball or cross peen, or a lathe hammer with a blade. Maul means hammer (malleus is the Latin word for hammer and is the root of both maul and mallet) All mauls (ship mauls, track mauls, post mauls, grab mauls, greenwood mauls, and rawhide mauls) are a club or hammer shaped striking implement for driving something. It’s what the word maul means. When an old True Temper or Plumb catalogue says an axe should not be used as a maul , they don’t mean you can’t split wood with it. And when Mann advertised their constructor/rafting axe as specially heat treated for use as a maul they didn’t mean they had finally made an axe that could split wood, they meant it could be used as a sledge. The difference between a splitting axe and a splitting maul is that a splitting axe is a type of axe and a splitting maul is a type of hammer (with an axe blade on the back). The same distinction is made in German (spaltaxt vs. spalthammer) and also Czech, Italian, and other languages. A splitting maul that can’t maul is like a screwdriver that is only meant for prying paint lids and can’t drive a screw. Carrying an axe, a “maul” and a sledge to the woodpile is a hassle! If only someone could invent some kind of tool that could combine the functionality of a splitting axe and a sledge into one tool! That would sure be handy.