Splitting Maul Best for: Splitting wood for kindling. About the same size as felling axes, these mauls feature a heavier, chunkier wedge-shaped head with one blunt and one sharp end.

Splitting Axe vs. Maul. While both of these axe types split wood along the grain, ... This axe walks the line between a maul and splitting axe with a 5.5-pound head and overall weight of 7.2 pounds.

Splitting Mauls. Rather than cut deeply across the grain as a felling ax does, a splitting maul utilizes a heavy wedge-shaped head designed to rend logs along the grain.

None of the other axes split like the Stihl Pro Splitting Axe.The beefy, 5.5-pound, wedge-shaped head split nearly everything I tried it on, from seasoned hardwoods to damp softwoods.

Splitting maul by Chmee2 via Wikipedia. ... These are the same types of splitters you might see for sale at your local big box home ... An 8 pound maul head is welded to a built up steel wheel.

Wetherbee prefers a splitting maul to an axe, on account of its heavier, less tapered head — it’s less likely to get stuck in knotty wood, she says. Also: a chopping block, and she recommends eye ...