Kindling Cracker Original Firewood Kindling Splitter

This is our first winter in a home with a wood-burning stove. My husband purchased this kindling splitter and after the first use he sent another one too, his brother. We love this thing! Very easy to use and its compact size doesn’t take up much room in our garage. Highly recommend.

My boyfriend loves this for splitting our firewood in the Fall and Winter. He says it makes it so easy.

I'm not one to write a lot of reviews, but this one is definitely deserving of one!!! First off, I liked the story behind how this product was developed. More importantly, this is HANDS DOWN the BEST kindling maker I've ever had! It's sturdy, safe, quick, and just plan WORKS....all with minimal effort! You can make your sizes as big or as little as you want. No more hoping to hit where you want with an ax/hatchet, picking up, trying to stand the piece on end, and repeating over and over. Go with the KC King (XL) size and it'll chew through anything thrown at it! I'd say I'd order again, but with how well this is built, I'd imagine it'll be a generational hand-down type of tool, and will last. VERY impressed!!!!!!

We've used wood for years and this is easy to use and makes quick work of a bundle of kindling. VERY sturdy. I put this on block of tree trunk and it's the perfect height

I am not lumber jack. I don't have a big Axe but I do have several fire stoves and have firewood delivered 2x a year. I find when the larger wood extends outside the top I have significantly more smoke and sparks. This devise is perfect for cutting down larger pieces of wood to fit into my Solo stove. It is also great for splitting off even smaller pieces to serve as kidling. You will want to have a 5 lb. metal mallet. Then place the log onto the blade and with just one or two strikes on the wood you will safely splits or trims the log. Enjoy!!

Overall, the best hand tool I have used for splitting wood into smaller diameters where a splitting maul would not work. I spent a lot of years using a hatchet to split wood to a diameter of a nickel or a quarter for kindling and this is far less is risky to my fingers. Durability of the blade is about it’s only draw back, but I’m honestly not sure that can really be improved upon fir this price point. I personally believe that I should’ve got the XL version and would recommend that due to flexibility even to casual users, but that’s not a negative on the smaller size one.

Wow, works like a charm! I use it to make kindling out of my already split logs. I used a 16oz hammer at first to see if that would work ok - and it did - but it is much faster and easier using a 3 lb. sledge hammer (make sure you get a sledge that has a good grip). It takes more work to bust through a log with knots in it but I can usually split the log. Makes short work of splitting bigger logs and getting .5" to 1" kindling - very nice - but I can't usually get it much thinner than that. My 9 year old grandson can had a good time with the splitter as well!

Awesome item I have a rocket stove it make the wood easy to process for it.

The King Kindling Cracker chops logs down into kindling like a boss. After years of struggling with an axe and chopping block, this year I finally succumbed and purchased the "King" size, along with the Amazon recommended 4lb lump hammer. Simply place a log on top of the blade and with an average of three taps it is split in half. Easy! Within minutes I turned a pile of logs into a stack of kindling, with very little effort (compared to the traditional axe method, anyway). The device itself is very robust, it is made of some kind of cast iron and pretty heavy. Another bonus is that it is pretty safe to use, as there is no need to swing an axe! Unlike some reviewers here, my one has a sharpish blade which hasn’t blunted after use. So, it is a good bit of kit, but I think maybe the secret to easy chopping is probably using a good heavy hammer, so my advice is to get one of them too.

Bonjour. Au déballage j’ai été surpris de la petite taille de ce fendeur de bûche au point d’avoir été vérifier sur le carton d’emballage que j’avais bien reçu le grand modèle King. A l’usage, je confirme que ses dimensions sont bien adaptées pour le job. Je commande du bois coupé à 50 cm mais certaines bûches peuvent mesurer parfois jusqu’à 60 cm. Il convient de travailler sur un sol dur et stable sinon l’énergie de vos coups va se dissiper dans le sol. Comme je n’ai pas de billot de bois sur lequel le poser, le King repose directement sur le sol. Mes bûches étant longues (entre 50 et 55 cm pour la plupart), j’ai juste besoin de fléchir un tout petit peu les jambes pour travailler à la bonne hauteur. J’utilise deux massettes, principalement une de 2 kilos, celle de 1,5 kg me sert vers la fin du fendage pour un meilleur contrôle de mon geste et éviter ainsi d’aller taper la lame du King ou pour le bois moins long et de plus faible section. Je déconseille des massettes plus légères sauf peut-être pour des bûches de petite longueur, et évitez les bûches avec des noeuds qui sont très difficiles, voire impossible à fendre. Plus le bois est sec, mieux il va se fendre. Au bout de quelques heures d’expérience, j’ai constaté qu’il faut taper très fort sur la bûche (entre 5 et 20 fois approximativement selon sa section et sa longueur) pour arriver à un résultat. Cela étant, on y arrive très bien et on a déjà chaud avant même d’avoir allumé le feu. J’imagine que ce sera beaucoup plus facile et rapide avec des bûches de 30 cm ou moins et dans ce cas on pourra même travailler assis. En conclusion, ce Kindling Cracker King est un excellent outil pour éviter de se blesser avec une hache ou de dépenser une fortune dans une fendeuse électrique. Il requiert un effort physique mais qui reste à la portée de presque tout le monde, homme ou femme. Je recommande vivement son achat. J’espère que mon commentaire vous aura été utile.

Capable de fendre petites et grosses bûches. Qualité au rendez-vous. A conseiller. Prix élevé justifié.

Funziona bene, sono molto soddisfatta. Importante è fissarlo a una base stabile con viti lunghe; il martello da 2 kg fondamentale, per pezzi non troppo grandi basta la forza di gravità. Ho provato tagliando quercia stagionata di varie misure, lunghezza 30 e 60cm, diametro dai 3 ai 12-14cm. Più il pezzo è lungo e largo serve una base stabile (la mia si muoveva un po’ con i ciocchi più grandi, ma non avendo un posto all’esterno dove lasciarlo ho preferito una base che riuscissi a spostarla facilmente fuori casa). Con i pezzi più grandi (60cm lungo e 14 cm diametro) ho impiegato un pò di colpi con forza prima di spaccarlo, ma ci sono riuscita.

I was a little nervous about buying this wood splitter due to the price since I wondered if other tools would be as good with less cost. However, I'm very pleased to report its an excellent product and works very well. I can appreciate the product for its well thought out design and quality of build. The product is made out of cast iron which makes it very strong and able to take quite hard impacts when splitting the wood. So far I've managed to split lots of kindling with little effort and it really does make doing the job so much easier and safer. I really like the design since its very simple but really makes things simple and easy to use since you have lots of control over the point in which the splitting force is applied. Also having the top loop does make it far safer compared with using a hand axe. I would recommend screwing it down to a stable heavy object however, since it will just make it more stable and easier to use.