Buy Gransfors Bruks Splitting MaulGransfors Bruks Splitting Maul Product Description:
- 5 1/2 ib. Head
- 2 1/2" Face
- 31" Hickory Handle
- Grain-Leather Sheath
Product Description
A hefty 51/2 lb head and 31" handle makes this maul an incredible wood splitting tool. The poll is designed for pounding on a splitting wedge.
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Too good for our times.
By WastedP
I purchased a GB splitting maul a few years ago after learning about them from a traditional woodworking tool catalog. I managed to find one locally. I see the price has jumped up about 40% in the last three years.I am comfortable working with hand tools and have been splitting wood for at least the last thirty years (when we proclaimed "boredom," our father furnished a froe and lead club and had us split cedar shakes. As elementary schoolers. Luckily CPS didn't have the power it does today). I have swung a hammer for a living for years, and I have used all manner of hatchets, wedges, sledges, and mauls. I love my 22 oz Estwing finish hammer, I've been with it longer than my wife andkid. But I had no idea how perfect a hand tool could be.The Gransfors Bruks maul is the friggin' Excalibur of firewood cutting tools. The balance is perfect. I've sharpened it exactly once in three years, the quality of steel and how long it holds an edge is unworldly in comparison to the garbage chisels and knives that marketers and retailers have convinced us, their captive market, to settle for. Depending on how sensitive you are, you may weep upon first using this maul and learning just how low our standards have sunk in the last century and a half when goods of this quality were the norm. It's refreshing to use a tool on a daily basis that was made by someone who cared about what they were doing, and was allowed by their employer to do their best work. Each maul is made by one guy, and he stamps his initials in metal. That's committed.I brought my maul on a camping trip with my oldest friends last year. Divergent careers, living on different continents, but everybody kept volunteering to split wood for the fire. One guy, a software engineer, could barely be talked away from the thing.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.Top Quality Product
By Magnuson
This is a top quality product that will not disappoint. Forged from high quality steel, tempered and annealed to the right toughness, this tool is created by skilled craftsmen and can not be compared to other cheaper and inferior products. This maul is a pleasure to split firewood with and was well worth the extra money.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
great splitting maul
By C. Lee
I have two excellent splitting mauls, this Gransfors Bruks and an Iltis (Oxhead). They are comparable in quality but they perform very differently.. They split 12-15 inch rounds of oak or maple effectively, but the Iltis is much better on larger round while the Gransfors excels on smaller ones. I usually bring out both when I go splitting firewood; using the Iltis as a maul, and the Gransfors maul as a splitting axe.The Gransfors cutting edge is a little more tapered and much more narrower then the Iltis, so it penetrates the end grain easier. Gransfors head is lighter and thus, is less effective on larger rounds. In fact, it's profile is as thin as my splitting axes. Its poll is also very small - too small to effectively strike a wedge with. Its lighte weight and sharp cutting edge make it great for smaller rounds- much better then all other splitting axes I have used. In fact, it feels much more like a splitting axe than a maul. Gransfors' more traditional design and rustic finish makes it look elegant - almost too nice to use for hacking up fire wood.The Iltis is ugly in comparison, but is build like a Tiger tank. I did find a couple of features on the Gransfors not very user friendly.The build of the Iltis is definitely more robust with a thicker handle, longer and more massive steel sleeve and a think steel plate that locks down the head. The Gransfors' more traditional mount has the small part of the handle protruding from the end and it gets damages after the first few rounds. Its handle is also smaller and harder to grip with gloves on. I used hockey tapes to solve the problem. Also, on the Gransfors, the grip of the handle does not flare out very much, making it more likely to slip off the hand with a hard swing (again, Hockey tape solved the problem, but made it look stupid). The protective sleeve on the Gransfors' handle is also very short. A monumental over strike will damage its nice oil finished handle. Lastly, Gransfors' current price is very steep - nearly 50% more expensive then the Iltis. Actually, the Iltis with the more robust handle goes for $120, the one without goes for $90 (sold re-branded as Stihl found in chainsaw dealers).
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