Our firewood preparation always looks like this: We usually struck in January, the wood in the forest, cut to about 1m-pieces and then stored for about half a year. In late summer this stock is then cut by the band saw on length, chopped with the Fiskars 2400 and stored for 2 years. Here, then, but still about 30-50% while pieces that seem too great when I want to bring them into the house to me. And exactly for this purpose I've bought the Fiskars X11. Had previously committed 600gr ax, which I have often agonized. In part, I had to fetch the 2400er. The X11 is being created seemingly exactly for this purpose. She is very well balanced, the gap geometry is perfect and the portion is really sauscharf. I had some concerns when ordering because of something great for one-handed operation stem length, but can now say that this relationship is designed absolutely right. As with the large head seems inextricably linked with the stem in the X11. I assume that the X11 lasts forever, as long as you do not misappropriated. The blade guard is well done and the bottom of the stalk attached hole serves for hanging on a nail. Compared to the old series of orange part of the stalk is a little grip, can be hard to describe, it is certainly not a rubber coating or something.
The X11 has succeeded perfectly in my opinion, I would not know what you could have done better.