>>425400I'm with you on recognising my maul is a cheap piece of shit, it is why my father is faster than me with his rusty museum piece, but the idea of spending more than $15 on a splitting maul runs completely counter to the ethos and ethics of nearly everyone I grew up around. Like you'd get laughed at and given a new nickname or something.
Fair game if you find a nice one cheap or second hand or you repair or refinish one, but at $500 if you afford that what the fuck are you doing splitting wood with your free time? It just doesn't make any rational sense except to a demographics who are attempting to buy in to a perceived culture.
I'm not trying to celebrate being poor, and anyway I don't feel poor in the slightest. I understand having nice things, I understand doing things for the love of doing them and the value of habit, but I also recognise marketing. If you must spend $500 on something relating to your central heating don't make it a fucking splitting maul.
When my father passes away I'll likely start using his old axe and it will be a piece of shit and a chore to use and my girlfriend and family and friends and any kids if I'm unlucky enough to have them will wonder why I bother and only I'll sort of get it occasionally when the mood takes me, but the rest of the time I'll toss it back into the woodshed gladly while thinking of my fucked up shoulder.
