i am the owner of wood bandits firewood in olympia wa i use a log splitter at my wood yard but when i go pick the wood up i have to split it into small enough pieces to pickup i run into 4 or 5 foot rounds on a daily basis and my x27 destroys them. i do well over 250 cord a year i have never broke one. i have ran them over with dump trucks still no damage. i have used every axe known to man they are all a joke compared to the fiskars. if you dont own this axe there is something wrong with you.