Keyfit Tools Athena's Hammer Log Splitter Wedge Steel Tree Felling Wedges Heat Treated & Tempered Forged 4140 Steel Long Smooth & Tall Fire Wood Maker Extra Long 4 Blade Splitting Wedge with Handle

This log splitter works great. the two inch diameter head is a nice large target that lets you get started and split the logs where you want instead of taking a wild swing with an ax. It looks much larger than I imagined from the pictures in the listing. While it is very strong and durable, it seems like it could be overpriced for a cast metal tool. If you need a good wedge to help split logs down in a more precision way, then this could be the tool for you.

If you’re looking for a wedge for splitting logs… This is the ticket! It’s so easy to apply and it has some weight to it… Let me tell you! This thing is awesome.

This thing is a honest to goodness BEAST. It's heavy, VERY heavy. I'm often splitting some longer pieces and often have trouble with the wood not releasingwhen I've run out of wedge, this is fully 2 or 3 times longer my wedge and really does the job with those longer pieces. It looks cool as all heck and the handle makes it both easier and I'm afraid to say a bit fun to even carry. What a great tool to add to my wood mauling toolkit.

I go through a lot of wood.Fireplaces, wood stoves and firepits. Fireplaces and woodstoves for when it's cold and the firepits get used almost all year round. Not every night but many nights.Of all the tools I have for splitting wood, this is one of the easiest I've come across and the first time I've seen one like this.This is exactly as described and pictured by the vendor. It's hard to describe how heavy duty this until you have one in your hands. This will take some serious abuse and keep on working.I see this as a very good deal and it will certainly get as lot of use. Glad I got it.

Every summer I split about 10 cords of firewood by hand. I use a sledgehammer and some really old metal splitting wedges. I have three old wedges and that's important because whenever a wedge gets stuck, which they do, I'll always have another one to use to help me extricate the one that is stuck. On the rare occasions when I get two wedges stuck in the same log I still have the third wedge and there's no log big enough to get all three wedges stuck. But just in case, I ordered this tool, as an additional backup for one thing, and as another device for spitting logs.I'm splitting old seasoned white ash, seasoned hickory, seasoned black cherry, and seasoned elm. Some logs are a couple of feet in diameter and I need multiple wedges to split them. I sat down with this new tool and tried to spit a big elm log with it. I drove it into the log with my sledgehammer and it went in quickly but it wasn't splitting the log, not at all. It penetrated and then simply got stuck in it like a huge nail. I do take precautions, I always drive the wedges into spots that already have cracks in them so that the pre-existing cracks will begin dividing and then split the log. That's the logical, smart way to do it. This new tool didn't separate the crack at all. Before it got stuck too deeply I pulled out my old reliable wedges to split the log and rescue this new tool.Then I reversed the process, I used my old wedges to split elm logs into smaller pieces and tried to use this new tool to split the smaller pieces. That worked a little bit better than the initial situation where it wasn't working at all, I was able to split the smaller pieces with it but once again it really was not very effective in separating the wood along the pre-existing cracks. I'll keep using it and see if I can get better with it. Any new unfamiliar tool needs to be used over and over again to establish a rhythm and a sense of how to make it work best and be most effective. So far, I'm not that impressed but I have many more logs to split and will report back after making additional progress with this device.Purely on a cosmetic note: when I opened the package and saw the tool is painted sort of a fluorescent green I was surprised. I could see it was painted on the listing page but I wasn't expecting it to look quite like this. The moment I saw the paint job I knew this paint would not continue to adhere to the tool. In fact the paint was already coming off the tool in a couple of spots before I ever used it. I knew that with any use whatsoever the paint would be coming off. I'm hitting it with a sledgehammer so of course the paint will come off. And it did, right away. The surface where I hit it with the hammer stripped down to bare metal right away. Frankly this tool would look much better if they had just left it with the bare metal and no paint whatsoever. I assume the paint is some sort of rust prevention strategy? Well, with the paint coming off of it this quickly it will not matter much. I'm tempted to sand off the paint entirely. This tool in bare metal would look pretty cool and who cares if it rusts? I don't. These old wedges of mine are bare metal and show their age but there's something attractive about them. The manufacturer painted this tool and I am sure they have good reasons for doing so but there's no way this paint will continue to adhere with any substantial use of this wedge. Only an observation-not a condemnation.

I didn’t realize that this was a curved splitting wedge. In fact, I’ve never seen a banana shaped splitting wedge before. Likely because it is not an efficient design for splitting wood.My Athena Hammer Log Splitter Wedge from Keyfit Tools arrived with a noticeable curve to its shape. I was a bit disappointed by this, because this is not a cheap tool. At the current price point of $70 USD I would expect better build quality and quality control. The forces necessary to bend something this thick after manufacturing would have been tremendous, so I am fairly certain it was made this way and shipped.Does the curve affect its ability to split wood? I don’t know. It does work for splitting wood, but it doesn’t work any better than my $20 4-way diamond splitting wedge.It does work well for making holes in the ground to drop tree fertilizer stakes into. The 12-inch length plus handle allow me to drive it deep into the ground and pull it out easily. I suspect that is all I will end up using it for.Asthetics aside. At the current price point, lacking a significant increase in performance over much cheaper and better built tools, the value just isn’t there for me.

Hefty, sharp, nice design ... a big heavy 'tent stake'Add muscle and sledge and it's a quality old school splitter. Quality workout splitting wood.I like it!