Splitting Firewood.
Here is a story I wrote up about my firewood splitting experience. I was splitting the wood to go camping with so, I believe this makes the story camping related. Before anybody points out that you ar...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
The technique is called "slabbing", and it involves going around the edges of the round, whacking off chunks. You start by making a single edge stroke pointed towards the heart of the wood, then cross stroke that. A wedge will fall out. That first piece might take four or five strokes, but after that a single whack apiece will do the trick.
Wedges and sledges are for splitting whole logs, in my experience. I've used them a time or two for fences and footbridges etc...but they're WAY too much work to use on a round of firewood.
I was taught the same technique but I always knew it as "cleaving".
When Thanksgiving rolls around the wood stove starts up and doesn't stop until April. I'm proud to say I use a gas log splitter for 90% of the work. My FIL used to always point out how much I spent on a splitter, the stove, the ductwork, the chainsaws, etc and that I wasn't saving any money. Well, that stuff is all mine and paid for. Once I pay the gas company for using my furnace, my ROI is gone.
That said, I'm always one slipped disc away from using the thermostat again...
