Fiskars Splitting Axe X27

As a "mountain forest dwellers" I'm used to the wood making from an early age. Not only to have firewood, but particularly for the conservation of meadows against the re-appropriation by the forest. With a gnarled old maple in the last year I have lost 3 Splitting hammer handles.
The Fiskars - Axes I have had several times in the hand at the hardware store, eyeing and after approval of the hollow "plastic stem" (this is so much more significant ... I know now) and the Axtkopfbefestigung contemptuously back into the bay covered. I could not imagine, how should hold "Something" and thought - like a disposable item for city people who pat one or two tent pegs while camping and sharpen a walking stick, but at the price!?. And anyway: "What the farmer does not know, the deadline, buys ... and he does not get married."

At Amazon, I have the many positive reviews for Fiskars - read axes and wanted it now leave it a try. I ordered the X27 Splitting Axe. Saturday afternoon ordered - delivered Monday 10.30 clock in the mail - madness !!! Monday afternoon fresh to work! AND .... shame on me ... I'm sorry that I'm used to go so contemptuously at this supposed "toy" over. I regret that I have this absolute professional tool not tried before.
The ax splits with their excellent 2700 g total weight. Do not jammed. And if a gnarled tree disc does not fall apart at the first blow, you get the ax out without any tools. Quite unlike the retching with my previous gap hammers where u. U. still had Spaltkeile be driven to get the Spalthammer again. Quite apart from the weight: a common Spalthammer weighs at least twice as much as the X27-ax. Anyone who has worked with a splitting maul several hours - ie weight lifting and speed up the low rise -, white evening why the body aches. As in physical terms is force = mass * acceleration, the good effect of Fiskars X27 can be explained. With her 92 cm long stem accelerating the (relatively) can easily be lifted 2,700 g weight are very well realized and the gap is very large force. Here, a labor-saving, low-fatigue and longer working is possible because less weight is to lift and accelerate the declining impact less strained. The high-quality handle and the ax head - fixing forgive imprecise strokes where the stem behind the ax head gets a karate chop and what with traditional wooden handles usually have a "nail in the coffin" means (so you should wrap wooden handles at this point with a piece of rubber hose or motorcycle tires - works wonders!). I hoe Baumscheiben to Dm 40 cm and lengths up to 40 cm in beech, birch, maple, ash, spruce. I am not suggesting that this alone ax chopping wood, but the work will be easier and it's fun. Who wants to chop shorter tree grates, for the X25-ax is certainly recommendable, shorter stem and thus better accuracy and portability. Number of reviews suggesting at the X25 to higher sales figures.
The prerequisite is for thick tree grates course the proper technique, to which very good advice have been given but in other reviews already.

If I due to cost and time of new acquisition and installation
-lockerer and flying objects ax heads
-abgebrochener and splintered wooden handles
-vorquellen in water
-Holzwurmbefall The Werzeugstiele
together count over the past few years, then every penny spent is money well spent for this Fiskars X27 Splitting Axe. Unreserved buy recommendation!