Also make sure to use the side handle for your drill, if don't you will probably twist/break your wrist. This site is brought to you by readers like you who support us with their membership in our Pitmaster Club. If I can save anyone a few steps I can and do recommend this particular splitter from Carlton Hardware. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . And mine stays outside by the wood pile most of the year (I bring it in the garage for the winter), with almost no rust.

The problem with the others is that they come in 2 pieces, so when it gets stuck in the wood, they reverse the drill and it comes apart. The Carlton Hardware™ Firewood Drill Bit provides high-level precision by weakening the logs at multiple angles. This versatile wood splitter hand tool works great for splitting oak, hickory, walnut and so much more.The logs I got delivered were just a bit too big to burn well in my fireplace, so I take a load in and split them with the drill and life is so much easier.

My first purchase was a bit of a failure in a sense, it also gave me the insight of what to look for in these splitters. Save yourselves hours of exhausting labor each year with a bit that turns your drill into a wood splitting machine! Log splitters work by pressing a button or pulling a lever that will split a log to the required diameter.We are GDPR compliant (the stringent General Data Protection Regulations from the European Union that went into effect in 2018).