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I have a 6 lb. maul with a broken wooden handle, it’s on my to do list.

I wore out the fiberglass handle on my 8 lb. maul this winter, didn’t know you could to that but I got about 50 cords out of it.

I have one of those 12 lb metal monster mauls, the handle is too short and I don’t like the ballance, but I finished the season with it. It makes me tired but I’m a big guy and I went through the last four cords pretty quickly with it.

I also have a 3 lb hammer, 8 and 12 pound sledge hammer with a small collections wedges inclucing a wood grenade, none of them are particularly fun to use.

To sum up, I’m open to a variety of tools. I’ve been looking for a new handle for my 8 lb maul and have been in several hardware stores including HQ and several small mom and pop operations, I’ve never seen a maul like that one. If they’re not too expensive, I would buy one out of curiosity. I wonder how many cords it would last. It may be a little light for my taste, I’m getting older and momentum is easier to generate than speed when your joints start getting less limber.

I wish I could find a 10 to 12 lb. maul with a normal length handle.

Sorry if I’m a little wordy, it’s bedtime and it’s hard to be pithy when drowsy.

Your wood-splitting volume is much larger than mine. In fact, rather than go through the agonies of building my retirement home, I bought an existing house adjoining my 65 acres of timber land -- and it has neither a wood fireplace nor a wood-burning stove. Bummer -- but Texas winters don't require much heating, either...

BTW, while I was searching for info on my maul, I found this listing for three different fiberglass maul handle replacement kits:

http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Fiberglass-Replacement-Handle-881-43323368

I finally found the source for the thing; it's called "Chopper 1":

http://www.chopperaxe.com/

It even has animations of the mechanism and demo movies of it in action.

And, I found a review/test/comparison article. It refers to the weight as "seven pounds"...

Apparently, I was wrong: it comes with a wooden handle. Stupid me -- the one in the picture had a wooden handle... :-(

Also found an arborists' forum where they respond to the question, "Anyone familiar with the Chopper 1 axe?"

As on FR -- responses with pros & cons... '-)

G'nite --finally tired and sleepy enough to stop surfin' and try to get some sleep -- even with this gouty foot a-hurtin;...