Having had (grammar police, arrest this man) to chop wood in my younger days, I can attest to the efficiency of this method. But now I just pay someone else to do it.

At least he has the best axe for the job.

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this man is a surgeon with that ax.

True, true, but not all wood splits that easily. Try splitting spruce and pine with all the knots and pitch in it. It would have to sit for two years, covered up, before you could split it that neatly.

It all depends on the wood, I suppose...

>> ^Sagemind:


It all depends on the wood, I suppose...


It really is what she said...

>> ^sillma:

At least he has the best axe for the job.


My favourite garden tool is a Fiskars Blade very similar to this: http://i.imgur.com/HXlP8.jpg for the garden. It's excellent.

Is that sleeve he has on the axe haft padding or something? The haft (from just the end that can be seen) appears to be wooden. Seems like otherwise he would demolish the haft in no time using it like that, as every blow lands the haft against the log. Having broken a few hafts, I can say that if I used my axe like that, the haft would be broken inside a day or two. Maybe it's one of them new-fangled plastic hafts made to look wooden.

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Like a boss

>> ^Barbar:

Is that sleeve he has on the axe haft padding or something? The haft (from just the end that can be seen) appears to be wooden. Seems like otherwise he would demolish the haft in no time using it like that, as every blow lands the haft against the log. Having broken a few hafts, I can say that if I used my axe like that, the haft would be broken inside a day or two. Maybe it's one of them new-fangled plastic hafts made to look wooden.


The hafts on fiskars axes are somekind of plastic composite, I've smashed ours against a hard piece of wood, missing it with the blade and just hitting it with the haft, and it takes like it's nothing. Done it in -35 celcius to +30 celcius so it doesn't seem to be the brittler in the freezing either. Plus they have a good warranty on the hafts IIRC. The part you grab on is just coloured orange.

You can also use an old tire, like so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDR_2Zsr40

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sweet... going to have to look into this some more. I have a bunch to chop up left over from the other year's ice storm.

Chopping wood - I've been doing it wrong.

>> ^Sagemind:

True, true, but not all wood splits that easily. Try splitting spruce and pine with all the knots and pitch in it. It would have to sit for two years, covered up, before you could split it that neatly.
It all depends on the wood, I suppose...


or how about ashe?
thats cherry wood he is aplitting.the very same wood i would save for when there were any women around and i could show off.
ash on the other hand?
made me look like a feeble retard.

>> ^Sagemind:

True, true, but not all wood splits that easily. Try splitting spruce and pine with all the knots and pitch in it. It would have to sit for two years, covered up, before you could split it that neatly.
It all depends on the wood, I suppose...


True but if you're using such a soft, sappy wood, you're not using it for much besides either getting your hard wood going, to make yourself a meal fast, or getting heat fast in an area so you don't freeze to death. So it being nice and easy to split doesn't matter too much. Softs have their place, and it isn't for long burning.

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