FAQS - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Free rotation is fundamental to maximize the lever action that is the very key of the Leveraxe performance. It is essential to let the handle of the axe turn in your hands. After a few practice swings you’ll learn to relax your grip at the final stage of the swing. With this simple rule - swing and relax your grip - you’ll quickly start enjoying this novel way of splitting firewood.
- Wear work gloves with a non-stick surface, so that the handle can rotate in your hands and the leverage force can work.
- Make sure your grip of the handle is correct. When you start a strike, do not bend your arms back. The correct strike height allows you to work with a straight back.
- You do not need as much hitting force than with conventional axe, because leverage force makes a part of needed force.
- The hit speed is a major factor, the speed improves the effectiveness of the Leveraxe.The faster you strike, the more effectively it works.
- You must loosen your grip when the axe hits the log to allow its levering movement.
Leveraxe Ultra is lighter so even not so strong person can use it easily. And it's still as powerful as the Leveraxe Classic. With lighter Leveraxe you may get faster speed and therefore power is getting stronger. Because Ultra is lighter, the blade weight does not come out so well (which help axe to turn = help leverage to work) and may require more training to learn the correct splitting technique than with Classic.
When using a chopping block with a tire setup you can achieve a burst of strikes at a frequency of 100 strikes a minute. Thus, as an example, using 10 strikes to chop a log would take 6 seconds. This level of speed does require acquiring certain practice using the Leveraxe, of course.
The Leveraxe doesn’t slip upon striking the log because its kinetic energy stops when it hits the wood. Like everyone who has ever chopped firewood knows, a traditional axe jolts occasionally and injure the user’s wrists. This tool was developed to address that disadvantage.
How about a cross-branched spruce that doesn't split when hit in a wrong place?
The Leveraxe chops branchy birches and spruces with ease. When using the Leveraxe, mauls and sledgehammers are not necessary. The Leveraxe wedges the crack open 4 - 8 cm (1.6 - 3.2 in), splitting even the hardest trees easily. A traditional axe spreads the crack only the thickness of the blade and axe’s motion seizes due to friction. As you have likely learned from experience, spruces’ branches reach all the way to the base. The correct way of chopping a spruce is to split it in half and then chop in a shape of a sector toward the tree’s center between the branches. If the tree is very large, you should chop pieces from between the branches to reduce the tension. This will make it easier to split the tree and chop it into pieces.
A 120 cm (3 ft) wide poplar is a tricky scenario for a regular axe, but not for the Leveraxe. You can begin chopping from the edge and continue around the tree. Don't strike straight at the big branches but chop at an angle on both sides, thinning the cross section and reducing tension. It is then easy to chop the branch, as you can strike the axe to the very edge without fear of the blade striking to your leg. As mentioned, a large tree like that is difficult to chop, but Leveraxe is suitable for all kinds of tricky cases, even if the tree has a 2 meter (6 ft) radius and weighs over 200 kilograms (440 lb). Due to the ingenious design of Leveraxe, you can chop wood at any site.